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Rules assistance for Plague Inc: 5th Player Expansion
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 5 players
Rules assistant for Plague Inc: 5th Player Expansion
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Plague Inc: 5th Player Expansion is an expansion for Plague Inc.: The Board Game released in 2016 for 5 players. It was designed by James Vaughan and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Take That, and Area Majority / Influence.
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About the game
The Plague Inc: 5th Player Expansion allows you to add a 5th player to the base game: Plague Inc.: The Board Game.
Mechanics
Designers
Publishers
- Ndemic Creations
Questions and answers
Plague Inc: 5th Player Expansion supports 5 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Plague Inc: 5th Player Expansion belongs to these categories: Video Game Theme, Medical, and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Hand Management, Take That, and Area Majority / Influence. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Plague Inc: 5th Player Expansion are: James Vaughan. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Plague Inc: 5th Player Expansion as an expansion for Plague Inc.: The Board Game. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Plague Inc.: The Board Game to use it. Check that your edition of Plague Inc.: The Board Game is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.