Power Grid - A Brilliant German Board Game
Power Grid : A Brief Overview
Power Grid
Amazon Price: $41.01 (as of 12/29/2009)
Power Grid pits players against each other to build the fastest network of cities that are powered by plants each players control.
There are 3 distinct stages to the game, buying power plants, buying resources to run those plants, and buying a presence in cities that allow you to send the power you generate somewhere.
Power Grid Tips, Cheats, Walkthroughs and More
Useful Power Grid Rules and Resources
- Power Grid Rules PDF
- The Official Power Grid Rules in PDF form from Rio Grande Games
- DIY Power Sink Expansion
- Expansion ideas for Power Sink that add hydro electric power and some other interesting resource manipulation abilities.
- Power Plant Reference
- Graphical Overview of all available power plants sorted by value and by type.
- Power Grid FAQ
- An Extensive Power Grid FAQ that uses various forum threads as references. Answers nearly all questions for first time players.
Power Grid Expansion : China / North Korea
Power Grid China & Korea Expansion
Amazon Price: $13.95 (as of 12/29/2009)
The China and Korea double sided map expansion for Power Grid offers some different playing styles as well as some slightly modified rules.
If you've played the original Power Grid, you should have no trouble diving right in and enjoying the China/ North Korea Power Grid expansion.
Power Grid Quick Tips
I'm going to add a few of my Power Grid Game tips here. Feel free to add any of your own as well!
- Watch what resources your competitors require to run their plants. You can make up ground if you are able to control a tight resource market or tap one that has no competition.
- The Power Plants that don't require resources to run (i.e. windmills etc.) usually pay for themselves within a turn or two. However, don't fall in love with them at the expense of limiting your total power generating capacity.
- Power Grid comes down to two key things - Cash flow and Power Generating Capacity. If you are generating the most cash each turn and have the ability to power more cities than any of your competitors, you can spend cash on less efficient things in order to protect your lead.
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Rio Grande Games Power Grid deck
Amazon Price: $10.86 (as of 12/29/2009)
There's a second deck of power plants that you can buy as an expansion to the original Power Grid.
This deck has slightly more powerful plants and a whole other level of plants as well with some able to power 8 cities by themselves!
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- Power Grid - Benelux/Central Europe | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
- Two new expansion maps for Power Grid: Benelux on one side and Central Europe on the other. Along with the maps are small rule changes to reflect the power culture in these two countries. As the Benelux countries support ecological ...
- Best game? Power Grid gets my volt! | Power Grid | BoardGameGeek
- Components: I really like having the two-sided game board, and both sides play equally well so it provides great variety. The wooden houses and resource markers are very nice, and quite colorful on the gameboard. ...
- 6 players 5 regions? 5 players 4 regions?? | Power Grid ...
- See Power Grid FAQ for how many regions for different number of players. (3,3,4,5,5 regions for 2,3,4,5,6 players.) There is no deep mysterious logic to it; it is simply what makes the game work. I don't know why this causes so much ...
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