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Too Much Time on Your Hands achievement in Pandemic: The Board Game

Too Much Time on Your Hands

Win with 24 or more cards left in the Player Deck.

Too Much Time on Your Hands0
2 guidesOffline Mode - These achievements require play in game modes that do not necessitate a connection to any online services.Single Player - These achievements can be obtained by a single player.Cooperative - These achievements can be obtained by two or more players in a cooperative game mode who have met the achievement requirements.Host Only - These achievements are only earned by the host or primary player.Stackable - These achievements can be unlocked at the same time as, or in the course of, earning its more difficult or less difficult counterpart.
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How to unlock the Too Much Time on Your Hands achievement

  • ROGUE 1992ROGUE 1992
    01 Aug 2019 02 Aug 2019 02 Aug 2019
    15 0 10
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    Team wise pick just researcher and scientist anymore then that and your just wasting time.

    Pick researcher first so you can instantly finish 1 disease (note if you can’t finish 1 disease on the first turn or you get a bad starting hand ie event cards restart)

    Basically the strategy is to not move and keep ending your turn while moving any necessary cards to the scientist. Don’t bother treating nodes unless your close and you need the cubes but I never bothered doing them in my 100 matches at all.

    All up matches that are winnable should take roughly 10 minutes my best time was 4 minutes or with 36 cards remaining.

    You might not win 100% of the time I had a few games where I needed say 1 red card and went through a good 15 hands and never got one but after a game or two you should have it.

    This stacks with the 12 card and 18 card wins also.

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    thanatos8285This is a solid strategy but I'd say you're being too harsh by saying to restart if you can't cure a disease on the first turn. On the way to 100 games, I was only able to cure a disease on the first turn maybe half of the time, but I finished almost all games with more than 24 cards left.
    Posted by thanatos8285 on 09 Aug 19 at 21:21
    DANIELVSExcellent guide! clap
    Posted by DANIELVS on 26 Aug 19 at 21:05
    iMaginaryyYeah it definitely stacks, but it's one of those games where the stacking can be a bit unreliable. Either check your achievements or wait it out, or try again. In my case, they both popped at the same time, but only the 24 showed on screen. The 18 "ghost popped".
    Posted by iMaginaryy on 28 Aug 19 at 07:58

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  • Pandaman822Pandaman822
    02 Aug 2019 02 Aug 2019
    0 2 0
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    I found the following game setup to make this simpler:
    Game Mode: Solo
    Characters: (3) Researcher, Scientist, Medic (Choose in this order)
    Difficulty: Easy (2 Epidemics)

    You can ignore the cubes almost entirely and focus on transferring cards between characters. Utilize the Researcher to give cards to other players and the Scientist to do most of the curing. On the first turn, if you selected the Researcher first, you can give your cards away to the other characters to work towards sets of 4/5.

    **This does stack with "Still Got Some Time" and "Still Got Plenty of Time" **
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