Z-Man Games Pandemic on The Brink Expansion Board Game (2nd Edition)

Product Description This expansion to Pandemic includes new event cards, new role cards, rules for five players, and optional game challenges to increase the difficulty, such as the 'Legendary' difficulty level, the Virulent Strain challenge, the Mutation challenge, and the Bio-Terrorist challenge. These challenges can be mixed together to make the game even harder.Virulent Strain challenge: makes one disease become particularly deadly in unpredictable ways.Mutation Challenge: adds a fifth (purple) disease that behaves differently than the original four.Bio-Terrorist Challenge: pits one player against the others!You may also play with 5 players and play on Legendary level!Other components include petri dishes to store your diseases and pawns.On the Brink version differences:116 cards from the base game (with some corrections) only 7 pawns (small-size)On the Brink requires a copy of Pandemic to play; it is not a stand-alone game. From the Manufacturer Has saving humanity become routine? Spice Pandemic up with new roles and events. Add a fifth player, try Legendary difficulty, or add an optional challenge: What if one disease is particularly nasty? Or, if a fifth disease is wreaking havoc? Or, even worse, if that fifth disease is being spread by a hidden Bio-Terrorist? Can your team work together to cure diseases in a world on the brink of disaster?.