Power Grid Fan Site

Rating:	8.2 Very Good
Popularity:	90
Difficulty:	Medium
Year:	2004
Players:	2-6 players
Playing time:	120 minutes
Age:	12+

Official Site: Power Grid at Rio Grande Games

Created by: Friedemann Friese, Antonio Dessi, Lars-Arne "Maura" Kalusky, Harald Lieske

Published by: 2F-Spiele, 999 Games, Albi

Alternate Names: Alta Tensão, Alta Tensao, Alta Tensión, Alta Tensione, Funkenschlag

Description:

Power Grid is an route building and bidding game where players must compete to power the most cities with their power plants. The game is actually the English-language edition of Funkenschlag.

Each player represents a power plant company. They must bid on more power plants and buy raw materials (coal, oil, garbage, uranium) to produce electricity for their constant expanding network. However, as plants are purchased, newer more efficient plants become available and you allow other players to have access to superior technology.

Nuclear power will give you a lot of profit as long as the nuclear waste get managed, 'renewable' windfarm/solar plants don't require raw materials, etc.

The game is a constant struggle to expand quickly a cheap network with maximum efficiency.

Prices:

Retail Price:	$44
Amazon:	$22
Ebay:	$79

Expansions:

Atolla Modulis (fan expansion for Funkenschlag)
Brettspiel Adventskalender 2015
Funkenschlag: Speicherkraftwerk
Hoogspanning: Het Verre Oosten
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Awards:

Nederlandse Spellenprijs Winner 2010
Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee 2010
Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee 2010
Gouden Ludo Winner 2010
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Power Grid Game Rules

Components

1 two-sided board: Germany /U.S.A. with scoring track, player order and resource market
132 wooden houses in 6 colors: 22 per player
84 wooden resource tokens: 24 coal (brown), 24 oil (black), 24 garbage (yellow), 12 uranium (red)
money (in Elektro)
6 summary cards with order of play/payments
43 power plant cards: 42 power plants with numbers 03-40, 42, 44, 46 and 50
1 "Step 3" card
rules sheet

Setup

Place the board in the middle of the table, choosing the side you wish to play on. The map is separated into 6 areas, each with 7 cities. In each game, the playerschoose which areas they will play in. We recommend one area per player. Of course, the areas chosen must be adjacent. During the game, every player can play in all the chosen areas. â€¦

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To do so, a player must plan carefully, effectively use his workers and acquire the best machines and robots, and operate his factory efficiently. A player must also keep track of his factory's energy consumption and watch the ever-rising cost of energy, so that running his factory does not cost too much.. â€¦