The game
The era of the old gas lamps is over: the city discovers electricity. Four power companies are fighting hard for concessions...
High Voltage is a high-strategy game where tactics and interaction are your cutting edge. Install longer power lines and supply as many neighbourhoods as you can with your power company.
High Voltage is a high-strategy game where tactics and interaction are your cutting edge. Install longer power lines and supply as many neighbourhoods as you can with your power company.
High Voltage: the box
Each player acts secretely for one of the four power companies indicated by different colours (red, yellow, green and blue). Turn after turn the players place the High Voltage cards, so that they form electric lines with the coloured segments on the cards.
The starting position of the cards; at the beginning of the game flip over the four cards indicated by the red edge in the picture.
Whenever two power stations are connected via an electric line, points are assigned to the companies according to the colour of the segments (such points are indicated by the coloured score markers); the player also receives points, according to the length of the line (such points are indicated by the point tokens).
The player who declares this electric line complete takes 1 point token. Blue, Yellow, Red and Green score markers advance respectively of 4,3,4 and 3 steps on the path formed by the score cards.
At the end of the game the players reveal the colour of their company and add the points in their possess to the score indicated by their score markers. The player with the highest score is the winner.
The green players reveals his color and advances his score markers of 3 steps because he has 3 point tokens.
