Tesla vs. Edison Board Game

Product Description

Become the brightest luminary of illumination! Tesla vs Edison brings up to 5 players together to contest the rough-and-tumble War of Currents between the companies of great inventors like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. Players represent investors teaming up with one of the great inventors of the time to start an electric company and lead it to success. Using the unique strengths of your inventor and other luminaries you hire into your company, players take turns claiming electric projects across the United States, making advances in key technologies, buying and selling other company’s shares in the market, and manipulating the media and popular opinion with propaganda. The player who amasses the most success from developing technologies, spreading electricity, persuading the public, and playing the stock market wins!

Features

• FAMOUS SCIENTISTS - Experience the exciting story of electricity and the Current War, featuring famous inventors like Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Elihu Thomson, Dash, and more
• HIGHLY STRATEGIC - Leverage your inventor’s strengths and cash on hand to invest in the stock of opposing players, develop projects, wage propaganda, or build your company by investing in technology.
• HISTORY OF SCIENCE - Recruit famous scientists and develop alternating current and direct current technologies in order to build your electrical network across a historical map of the United States
• WHO CAN PLAY - Perfect for your game group: science history enthusiasts, electrical engineers, and strategy gamers all love playing this geeky technology game; and it makes a great birthday surprise
• ENGAGING GAMEPLAY - Fans of area control, engine building, and stock market manipulation games will have a blast playing Tesla vs Edison. 2-5 players, 20 minutes per player, ages 14 and up.

Top Reviews

A historic and heavy euro style.
by Xcutionist (5 out of 5 stars)
July 9, 2019

This is a heavy euro-style game. You take on the role of a historical inventor as you try to win the war of currents.

You research new technologies for the lightbulb and/or AC/DC current. You purchase patents and build projects around the country.

The rulebook is very good. The game is on the heavier side. So learning everything took a game or two to really get it down. But once you understand it the game plays pretty quick.
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The instructions are intuitively written and easy to use as a guide as you work your ...
by Kindle Customer (5 out of 5 stars)
December 27, 2015

Tesla vs. Edison is an immensely enjoyable game -- it's satisfying and challenging, and while figuring out the game can come off as a daunting task, it's very worth it. The instructions are intuitively written and easy to use as a guide as you work your way through your first few games. I purchased the game as a Christmas present and it was a big hit all around.
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Fun and different!
by Wifeybo (5 out of 5 stars)
February 8, 2017

Gave as a gift to an electrician and his family. They loved it and said it was a fun game too. Go Team Tesla!
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Great Gift
by Ann Eckman (5 out of 5 stars)
January 10, 2017

Was a gift but the recipent loves it
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Five Stars
by covenantmama (5 out of 5 stars)
April 5, 2017

My science minded kids love this! Good for grownups too.
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10 pts
by Agustin Marcos (5 out of 5 stars)
August 2, 2018

Excelente!
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Five Stars
by S. Britton (5 out of 5 stars)
January 25, 2016

Christmas gift that arrived on time and brought a smile to the recipient.
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The instructions were pretty difficult to understand
by D. Moulton (4 out of 5 stars)
November 26, 2016

I play a lot of board games, and I play different types of board games. This is absolutely the most difficult to learn game that I have ever played. We spent over an hour trying to figure it out, and once we did game play was very slow until we got the hang of it. The instructions were pretty difficult to understand.

The difficulty comes from the many different types of things that you are trying to do: establish technology, build power grids, enhance your fame and invest in the stock market. It is like having four games in one, it is a lot to work with and figure out. However, if you are familiar with similar building type games (Iike Settlers of Catan) it should be understandable. I have heard there is a youTube video that might have helped.

Once you have the rules figured out, it is a fun game, with a lot of different strategies to play with. We will probably play it again.
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Five Stars
by karen e gauen (5 out of 5 stars)
November 29, 2015

Fun and educational!
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and I'm v-e-r-y disappointed with that
by B.Z. (2 out of 5 stars)
April 17, 2016

This rating has nothing to do with play-ability of the game, since I bought it as a Christmas present...still many months hence. What I can comment upon, and thus this entry, is that although it was designed in the U.S., it was made in China, and I'm v-e-r-y disappointed with that.

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