Power Grid

In Power Grid, the players are competing utility companies working to blanket the nation and power the most cities they can. To do this, they'll outbid each other for new and more efficient power plants in order to be able to earn more money, and supply more cities with power. Depending on the number of players, once a certain number of cities have been built, the player who can then power the most cities will win the game.

Objective

Be the player who can power the most power plants at the end of the game.

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Friedemann Friese

Antonio Dessi, Lars-Arne "Maura" Kalusky, Prapach Lapamnuaysap, Harald Lieske

2004

Rio Grande Games

2-6

12+

120 minutes

Intermediate

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Inventory

    • 1 two sided game board

    • 132 wooden houses (22 of each color)

    • 84 wooden resource tokens

      • 24 coal (brown)

      • 24 oil (black)

      • 24 garbage (yellow)

      • 12 uranium (red)

    • 1 set of paper money including:

      • 40 blue '1s'

      • 15 yellow '5s'

      • 40 orange '10s'

      • 25 green '50s'

    • 1 deck of cards including:

      • 6 summary cards

      • 43 power plant cards

      • 1 "step 3" card

    • 1 set of instructions