Vaccine development board game

A method for a board game to explain and teach how vaccines are developed, comprising:

• positioning at least one player token at a starting position on a game board, the game board comprising a scoring track and a turn counting track, the scoring track comprising a first sequentially numbered track, the turn counting track comprising a second sequentially numbered track, the starting position is positioned on the scoring track, each player token associated with a player;
• for each player token, assigning a predetermined amounts of pay coins;
• positioning a turn token at an initial turn position on the turn counting track;
• for each of a plurality of disease boards that each represent a disease, recording initial conditions that consist of a vaccine needs value, target antigen value, base vaccine price value, and combo incompatibility value;
• for each position on the turn counting track,
• each player initiating an action phase by executing three actions randomly selected from a group consisting of purchasing research reagents, acquiring a technology or expertise, performing a tox study, performing a clinical study, increasing production capacity, launching a new vaccine into the market, and removing a vaccine from the market;
• subsequent to the action phase, each player initiating a vaccine production phase comprising recording vaccine production unit values and player's vaccine price values on vaccine development cards to thereby generate a plurality of marketable vaccines;
• subsequent to the vaccine production phase, each player initiating a vaccine sales phase comprising identifying a best-in-class vaccine for each disease board, the best-in-class vaccine is the marketable vaccine that comprises a highest vaccine efficacy value against a disease of the disease board;
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• for each best-in-class vaccine, advancing the associated player token along the scoring track according to the vaccine production unit value of the vaccine development card;
• reducing the vaccine needs value of the targeted disease board;
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• advancing the turn token on the turn counting track sequentially.