What? I won at Power Grid?
We still had time, so played a bit of Power Grid Benelux, the supposed faster game among the maps. We picked three sort-of-elongated region this time. Li Zhen picked the south, I picked the north, and Harry was squeezed in the middle, meaning Harry couldn't expand much. Li Zhen was slow in the power plants. I hit step 2, and step 3 came soon afterwards. In the second last round, both Harry and I had capacity 17, but neither of us had enough money to build up to 17 cities. This gave Li Zhen a chance to build up his power plants. I decided to only power 12 cities that turn, hoping to conserve some money with the resources. For the final round, I was last in turn order. Only one 6-plant on the board, the rest 5 or lower, and no more plants were available. Harry passed on the power plants, I decided to put the 6-plant up for auction. If I won that, I would have 18 capacity (and Harry was regretting it now), but if Li Zhen won that, he would have 17 capacity, and we would all go into a tie-breaker. Turns out that Li Zhen wanted that more than I did, so I let him have it. We all built up to 17 cities with 17 capacity, and it was time to reveal the money... Li Zhen had just 2 dollars left... Harry had 73... and I had 94...so even with low power in the second last round, I still won! Yay! That was an interesting game.
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