Matt Leacock

Matt Leacock is a Board game designer, most known for cooperative games such as Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert.

In 2014, Leacock left a career in Silicon Valley, where he had worked for AOL and Yahoo, to design board games full time.Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, which Leacock co-designed with Rob Daviau, has been described as the greatest board game of all time.

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