Power Grid Game Review

Power Grid, designed by Friedemann Friese and released in 2004, is a game that mixes economics, auctions, network building, and resource management. Over a series of rounds, you bid on power plants, place plants across your expanding series of connected cities, buy the materials needed to power your plants, and then earn money for providing power to those cities. The player who can power the greatest number of cities at the end of the game is the winner.

Sounds pretty easy, right? And yet, consider Power Grid remains on many people’s list of favorite games over 20 years after it hit the market. If you’ve played the game, you know why that’s the case; if you haven’t, we have a treat for you. We’ll start with how to play the game, and then Tom, Abram, and Andy will discuss why Power Grid is such a great game.

Diode, Cathode, Electrode

Inside the box you’ll find a double-sided game board, with a map of the USA on one side and Germany on the other. Your first decision in the game is to choose which side you’ll use to play.

Once decided, each player receives 22 buildings in their chosen color, a helpful card detailing the payouts for powering specific…

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