Herd Immunity
Contain the chaos. Outsmart the outbreak.
One clumsy intern, one burrito, and one very bad button press: now the viruses are loose. Collect cards, contain the chaos, and finish with the fewest infection points.
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A game of viral proportions.
Choose your cards carefully and overlap matching diseases to keep your infection score low. The most widespread disease becomes harmless through herd immunity, so every player can influence which virus stops counting.
It all started in Dr. Noodlebrain's Super Secure, Totally Safe, Nothing-Can-Go-Wrong Laboratory, which, in hindsight, was a very misleading name. One clumsy intern, a half-eaten burrito, and the Big Red Button later, every virus in the lab made a daring escape.
In each trick, everyone plays a card. The highest card wins the trick and its player chooses first from the cards played. Add your chosen card to your panel, overlapping matching diseases to cover up infection values. Hospitals are wild and can overlap any disease.
After everyone has placed eight cards, count the visible sections of each disease across all players. The most widespread disease no longer counts: humanity has developed herd immunity. If diseases are tied for most widespread, choose randomly.
Add up the visible infection values of the remaining diseases. The player with the fewest points wins; if there is a tie, the player with the most hospitals wins. Can you outsmart the outbreak, or will you end up a walking petri dish?
