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This one is for all the casual gamers out there that enjoy flash games. Myron pointed me to a game called Pandemic 2. The objective of the game is to basically wipe out humanity through a pandemic. You get to custom tailor your disease. The game is pretty simple, yet it requires some interesting strategy. The disease has three main attributes that need to be balanced: lethality, visibility, and infectivity.

To eliminate humanity, you obviously need a disease that's going to be lethal. However, if you kill people too quickly, it's not going to help increase the number of people who are infected. If you're too infectious or visible (ie your disease has obvious symptoms), then humanity is going to react by developing a vaccine and eliminate your disease all together. Interesting balancing act.

Anyway, it took me about five tries before I destroyed all humans. The first three tries, I thought Madagascar was impossible for my disease to reach because it's fairly isolated, but there is a way to get there. In event of global pandemic, I'm fleeing to Madagascar.

P.S. Make sure you run through the tutorial real quick.