Setup for 1 Player a Game of Pandemic

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Player Setup

Custom Setup Sequence

1. Place the board in the center of the table within easy reach of all players
1. [Lab Challenge] Place the Lab board next to the main board, then put the 5 petri dishes on the 5 circles
2. [Lab Challenge] Shuffle the Sequence cards & place the pile next to the Lab. Draw 1 Sequence card & put it face up on the upper sequence
2. Place 1 Research Station in Atlanta and the other 5 nearby in the supply area
3. Separate the disease cubes by color and place them nearby in the supply area
4. Place the Outbreaks marker on the “0” space of the Outbreaks Track
5. Place the 4 Cure Markers (vial side up) under their respective discovered Cure Indicators
6. [Lab Challenge] Replace the Cure Markers with the Cure Vials from the Lab
7. Place the Infection Rate marker on the 1st “2” space of the Infection Track
8. Choose your game’s difficulty level; Easy, Standard, Heroic, Legendary
9. Shuffle all the Infection cards and flip over the top 3, place 3 disease cubes of the matching color on each of these cities.
10. Flip over 3 more cards, place 2 disease cubes on each of these cities
11. Flip over 3 more cards, place 1 disease cube on each of these cities
12. Place the 9 revealed Infection cards face up into the Infection Discard Pile.
13. Place the remaining Infection card face down in the Infection Deck space.
14. Give each player an Actions reference card
• [Lab Challenge] Give each player a Lab Actions reference card
15. Give each player their assigned Role Card (see grid above)
16. [Solo]Place the CDC role card nearby
17. Place the matching colored pawns for these roles in Atlanta.
18. Remove the remaining Role cards from the game.
19. Remove the Epidemic cards from the Player Deck and set them aside.
20. [Solo]Shuffle the City cards (without Events) and deal 12 cards (for Normal mode) into the Player Discard pile face-up.
• NOTE: If more than 6 cards are the same color, redo this step. Keep redoing step until there are no more than 6 cards of each color
21. Shuffle all of the Event cards and place 4 Event cards into the Player Deck.
• [Solo]Exclude the Special Orders Event card
• Exclude “Local Initiative” when NOT playing with [State of Emergency: Quarantines]
22. Put any unused Event cards back in the box without looking at them.
23. Shuffle the remaining cards in the Player Deck (City and Events)
24. Deal 4 cards to each player to form their starting hand.
• [Solo]Deal 4 cards to the CDC
25. Divide the Player Deck into 5 facedown piles (for Normal mode), as equal in size as possible
26. Place 1 Epidemic card into each mini-deck and shuffle each one individually.
27. Shuffle all of the mini-decks individually.
28. Stack these mini-decks on top of each other to form the main Player Deck, placing smaller mini-decks on the bottom
29. Players look at the City cards they have in their hand.
30. The player with the highest City population goes first