Pandemic: On the Brink is an expansion to the popular cooperative game, Pandemic, wherein players take on roles to work together to find cures to 4 diseases.

In this expansion you will find six new roles (plus 1 revised OpEx and a Bio-Terrorist), eight new special events, and several challenge kits to be added to the basic game play.

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: 12 purple disease cubes, 12 pawns in a smaller size, petri dishes to store your diseases and pawns, a bio-terrorist pad for that player to record his actions.

Contents: 35 cards, 12 wooden cubes, 12 pawns, 1 cure marker, 1 purple tile, 6 plastic petri dishes, a sticker sheet (for the petri dishes)
No. of players: 2-5
Ages: 10+
Playing time: 45-60 minutes

requires Pandemic

read the rules (pdf 1mb)

read more at boardgamegeek

Note to first edition owners: If your cards are gloss with no linen finish then you have a first printing (Feb-April 2008). Z-man is offering a trade so that your cards will match the newer printings. See www.zmangames.com/boardgames/pandemicOTB.htm for details.