Power Grid: The Card Game

Power Grid, squeezed into a deck of cards and about an hour. You run an electricity company, bid against your rivals for power plants, feed them resources and earn money from every bit of power you produce. Most electricity at the end wins. This 2016 card version keeps the auction tension that made the big-box Power Grid famous, but leaves the maps behind, so the table stays small and the rounds stay brisk. With two players, a neutral Trust acts as a third party, and you have to plan around its schemes while still fighting each other. Think of it as the same nervous auction table, just with less setup and fewer square metres of board.