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Play and Learn Communicable Diseases

CoBefore and after playing this card game, please do infection prevention measures, such asm

washing your hands and disinfecting the cards.
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How to Play
Prepare the Deck!

Know the Rules!

Cut the cards with scissors or cutters. You will make 60 cards from 8

The general rules are similar to Uno.

pages of A4 size paper with your friends.

Shuffle the deck well and deal cards to each player: 5 per player for a grounp of 5 orless players and 4 per player for a gourp of 6 or more players. After dealing out, take

Know the Cards!

one card from the deck and put it faceup (upcard).
The player who has the most germs cards in her hand starts the game and the players
take turns clockwise. On your turn, you play a card (or multiple cards) from your hand.

Under the basic rules, the cards fall into 3 categories.

Germs Cardthe microorganisms
like viruses andbacteria that cause
infectious diseases

When you have no card to play, you draw one card from the deck. If the card you draw
can be played, you may play it. Otherwise, the turn moves to the next player.

5 kinds × 5 colors = 25 cards

You win when you play the last card of your hand. The game ends when the next-to-lastInfluenza virus

BlueSARS-CoV-2

Green×Norovirus

PurpleMycoplasma pneumoniae

OrangeStreptococcus pneumoniae

Yellow

player wins, and the last remaining player loses. If you play an event card as the lastcard, you draw one card from the deck as a penalty.

Here are the rules of playing a card in your hand.
You can play multiple cards at once if they are the same kind.

Attack Cardthe lifestyle andactions that one can dofor infection prevention* This mark [] indicates its

effectiveness to the germs

You can play any categories/kinds/colors of cards on top of any kinds of the event
cards, and vice versa.

5 kinds × 5 colors = 25 cards
Washing hands

Blue

Disinfect with alcohol

Green

Disinfect with bleach×

On top of attack cards, you can play

the same color of attack cards (any kind).

PurpleAntibiotics

OrangeSocial distancing

Yellow

the same kind of attack cards (any color).
the same color of germs cards (any kind).

On top of germs cards, you can play

the same kind of germs cards (any color).
the same color of germs cards (any kind).

Event Card
what happens insociety as a result of
an infectious disease
epidemic and how todeal with it

the effective kinds of attack cards (any color).

10 kinds = 10 cards
Buy up

Liar

Emergency declaration

Doubt

Long distance trip

Quarantine

Close, Closed, and Crowded

Examine & Consult

When did you wash your hands?

Quarantine fatigue

If you play an ineffective attack card on top of a germs card, you draw one cardfrom the deck as a penalty.

Now play...

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Influenza virus

SARS-CoV-2

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Disinfect with alcohol

80%

Droplet / Contact

Droplet / Contact

BlueBlue

Norovirus

Droplet / Endogenous / Contact

Blue

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

80%

Washing hands

Blue

Disinfect with bleach

0.05%

Droplet / Contact

Oral / Airborne / Contact

BlueBlue

Blue

Blue

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Buy upInfluenza virus

SARS-CoV-2

Next player draw one card.

Droplet / Contact

Droplet / Contact

GreenBlue

Social distancing

BlueGreen

Examine & Consult

Norovirus

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

See all the cards in one player’s hand.

Oral / Airborne / Contact

Droplet / Contact

GreenGreen

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Disinfect with alcohol

80%

Antibiotics

80%

Droplet / Endogenous / Contact

GreenWashing hands

Liar

Next player draw two cards.

GreenGreen

Disinfect with bleachSocial distancing

Long distance trip

0.05%

Skip the next player.

GreenGreenGreenInfluenza virus

SARS-CoV-2

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Disinfect with alcohol

80%

Droplet / Contact

Droplet / Contact

Droplet / Endogenous / Contact

Norovirus

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Washing hands

80%

Disinfect with bleach

0.05%

Oral / Airborne / Contact

Droplet / Contact

Antibiotics

Close, Closed, and Crowded

Influenza virus

SARS-CoV-2

One player draw three cards.

Droplet / Contact

Droplet / Contact

OrangeBlue

Social distancing

OrangeQuarantine

Norovirus

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Every player decide whether toquarantine (pass) or play a germs card.

Oral / Airborne / Contact

Droplet / Contact

Blue
OrangeOrangeStreptococcus pneumoniae

Disinfect with alcohol

80%

Antibiotics

80%

Droplet / Endogenous / Contact

OrangeWashing hands

Emergency declaration

Skip all the players.

OrangeDisinfect with bleach

OrangeSocial distancing

Quarantine fatigue

0.05%

Next player draw one cardfrom the current player’s hand.

OrangeOrangeOrangeInfluenza virus

SARS-CoV-2

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Disinfect with alcohol

80%

Droplet / Contact

Yellow

Norovirus

Droplet / Contact

YellowBlue

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

80%

Droplet / Endogenous / Contact

Yellow

Washing hands

YellowDisinfect with bleach

0.05%

Oral / Airborne / Contact

Yellow

Droplet / Contact

YellowBlue

Yellow

Yellow

Antibiotics

When did you
wash your hands?

House Rules
Original Event Card
Think about the social chaos thatis happening or may happen
because of an epidemic and its
impact on your friends, and make

One player draw as many cards as how many
hours have passed since the last washing hands.

it into an original event card
writing the title, illustration, andrule.

Yellow

If the rule imposes a penalty, it isprohibited to impose an
excessive penalty based on thefollowing criteria: no more than
three cards draw per person, noSocial distancing

Doubt??
?

more than one skip per person,etc.

Play in English
If English is not the first language
in your group you play with, play
the game speaking only inEnglish.

Previous player draw one card if he answers
wrong to the question the current player
asked about the card he just played.

Yellow

Draw one card as a penalty if aplayer says something in alanguage other than English.