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A version of Pandemic involving persistent gameplay, including permanently altering the board and tearing up cards. Questions and answers which reveal changes and other hidden content should use spoiler markup where appropriate.

Pandemic Legacy is a version of involving persistent gameplay, including permanently altering the board and tearing up cards. Season 1 was first released in 2015 by Z-Man Games, and was designed by Rob Daviau and Matt Leacock.

Questions and answers which reveal changes and other hidden content should use spoiler markup where appropriate.

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What's the difference between Pandemic Legacy Red and Blue?

So, basically what the title says. Is there any difference at all in the contents of the boxes or anything else? (without spoilers!) Maybe it'll make a difference in "Season 2"? (it does say "Season 1" on the box after all).
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Would it be possible to play through Pandemic Legacy more than once?

I am about to start a Pandemic Legacy campaign. I have managed to avoid spoilers so far, but I have read enough to know that the game is essentially designed to be played through once - changes are made during the campaign that are not easy to…
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How many plays of Pandemic Legacy until it is complete?

I've seen and read a few spoiler-free reviews of Pandemic Legacy, and it looks great. As such I have a question I've not seen covered yet. I was wondering how many times the game is played until it is complete? I think I read somewhere that it's two…
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How do character upgrades interact with Dispatcher's special ability?

(This should be spoiler free, all of this info is available at the start of the season.) In our game we upgraded the dispatcher with the Pilot upgrade to Direct Flight without discarding the card. Pilot seems especially powerful since the dispatcher…
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Pandemic Legacy Season 1 September: Where to search if the conditions can’t be met?

In September we are supposed to search for the paranoid soldier in a faded city with military base. ...but we don’t have one! We have the former and the latter, but not both at the same time. We could build one, but then the story does not make…
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How is Pandemic Legacy impacted by playing with two characters?

What are the mechanical/strategic differences in playing Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 with just two characters, as opposed to three or four? If discussing Season 1 spoilers is unavoidable, please remember to use the spoiler notation (>! hidden text)…
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Pandemic Legacy, February, and Epidemics

In Pandemic Legacy, February gives you Quarantine tokens. During the infect phase, if a city card is pulled and there's a quarantine token on that city, you remove the token instead of placing a disease cube. But what happens if you have an…
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Is Pandemic Legacy as good with 3 players as it is with 4?

I have gathered 3 players (including myself) for Pandemic Legacy and we are eager to begin, but I'm wondering whether I should take the time to find a 4th. I've played Risk Legacy with 4 and it was a great experience. I'm somewhat concerned that the…
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Pandemic Legacy: lost characters

We are about to start the first season. If we lose a character, at the start of the next game, do we choose another character? If we are 4 people to play and is is possible to lose 2 characters, do someone plays only as a civilian?
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Can one search action advance multiple search parties?

Question in spoiler tags The search action requires you to discard a card to advance the search party one or more spaces. From September at least, it's possible to have one city which matches the requirements for two searches: a rioting Faded city…
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Victory bonus for November and December

After finishing October, we had found the virologist, the immunologist and patient 0 The event cards then told us to consider all searches complete (-> the paranoid soldier) and open the relevant boxes (which gave us vaccine centers,…
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Can a player take a card from the researcher on their turn if they have the co-worker relationship but are not in the same city?

It is the generalist turn. Can she take a card from the researcher if they have the co worker relation?
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Does order matter when drawing player cards? (Efficient to Sequence + Epidemic)

One of the positive disease mutations in Pandemic: Legacy is Efficient to Sequence. A disease with this mutation is cured immediately when a player discards the correct number of cards. The rules note that this doesn't have to occur on your own…
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Pandemic Legacy: Question about missions (Spoilers)

We just played a game where a mission card says : destroy it if you completed the mission. We completed the mission, but we lost the game. For the second try do we have to do the mission again? Or does it count as 1 already finished task and we have…
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Efficient to Sequence - do you have to discard cards first?

The Efficient to Sequence positive mutation allows a disease to be cured as soon as one player discards the necessary number of cards My question is, what happens if a player draws their eight card? Would they have to immediately discard a card…
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