Reply: Pandemic:: General:: Re: Drawing two Epidemic cards back to back

by Borz

mccrispy wrote:

danieldukai wrote:

Well, I know very well that I can possibly predict an Epidemic, but I won't know for sure when I'm going to draw one.

You can know for absolute sure when the first is due, just not the second. You know how many cards are in each Epidemic block and you know how many cards get drawn per turn. That's all that's necessary to know that the first one must be about to come up in the next draw (in your example situation)

You can know but don’t necessarily unless you carefully count how many cards are in each “block,” which we don’t do. The rules call for splitting the deck roughly into equal parts, placing the “smaller” block on the newly assembled deck. Since we (for example w/ 4 Epidemic cards when teaching new folks) split the deck roughly in half (without counting cards) and then split each half roughly in half again, we wouldn’t “know” the exact card count and so couldn’t accurately tell when that first Epidemic will fall.

(Actually, “knowing” that would detract from the enjoyment of the game for me, I think.)