Virus: An Infectious Card Game is an addictively quick and simple card game focused on viruses infecting a host cell - and how they assemble and replicate inside that host cell.
Virus has players take on the role of viruses competing to infect a host cell in order to replicate their own viral components, thus scoring points.
Each round, players secretly choose one Virus card from their hand, place it face down on the table, then simultaneously flip these Virus cards to reveal each player's (and thus each virus') virulence. In order from the highest to the lowest virulence, players then take turns selecting from the available Viral Component cards, each awarding points in a variety of ways, or allowing that player to build their hand of Virus Cards allowing them to win critical components later.
Virus is addictively simple and competitive because it combines blind bidding/bluffing, with engine building, a bit of luck and, most importantly, it can played be taught in 30 seconds, and played 10 minutes.
Product Specifications
- BIOLOGY CARD GAME - Learn about viruses from a science game! Play as a virus to take over the host cell and collect helicals, icosahedrals, genomes, spherical envelopes just like in biology class.
- STRATEGIC PLAY - A blind bidding card game about viruses with a level of strategy to engage an adult gamer, yet intuitive enough for kids 8 and up to play at home or in the classroom.
- EASY TO LEARN, FAST PACE, QUICK TO PLAY - Virulence is a great game for gamers, science class or family game night. And All viral components and science vocabulary are accurate.
- WHO CAN PLAY - Perfect for the gamer, science class or family game night. Teachers, scientists, biologists, and students love playing this geeky science game; and it makes a great birthday surprise!
- LEARN ABOUT VIRUSES - Designed to show virus structure and viral components like helical, icosahedral, and genomes at middle school or high school levels. Complies with STEM and NGSS standards.
- Length : 20 cm
- Width : 9 cm
- Height : 22 cm