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Pandemic is the original co-operative board game that launched a thousand sickly imitators. It's winning combination of being easy to learn, difficult to beat, and lacking competition made it brilliant family fare; a hobby title that's bled into the mainstream. But of course co-operative games also work well played solo, and now you can play it both ways on your iPad.

The players control a team of specialists trying to cure four lethal diseases before the game triggers one of a terrifyingly broad range of fail conditions. Each player has a hand of cards, corresponding to a color and a city on the board. You can move slowly from city to city, maybe spending precious actions to remove disease cubes as you go, or play a card to fly directly to the matching city. If you're lucky enough to accumulate five cards in the same color and can get to a research station, you can cure the disease of that colour.