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Each player strategically invests in businesses, trying to retain a majority of stock. As the businesses grow with tile placements, they also start merging, giving the majority stockholders of the acquired business sizable bonuses, which can then be used to reinvest into other chains. All of the investors in the acquired company can then cash in their stocks for current value or trade them 2-for-1 for shares of the newer, larger business. The game is a race to acquire the greatest wealth.

For the rulebook, go to

http://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/rules/acquire.pdf

or

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lanthony/classes/SEng/Design/acquire.html

The tiles were copy and pasted quickly, so they are functional, but not pretty. This will be fixed in the future.
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Womzilla 4 Oct, 2020 @ 11:50am 
Shaul Tzuar, the 3-d ACQUIRE-like game is called BIG BOSS; it was designed by Wolfgang Kramer and published in 1994, and then re-implemented as ALCAZAR in 2009. Copies of BIG BOSS are quite expensive, but ALCAZAR is more affordable.
Kelson 25 Aug, 2016 @ 4:49pm 
Oh and no there shouldn't be a bunch of blank tiles. There may be 1 or 2 included to use for a wild tile variant, but there shouldn't be more than that (if any).
Kelson 25 Aug, 2016 @ 4:48pm 
This is a great game. Not too complicated, yet strategic enough to do well with some planning. Enough luck to allow less strategic players a chance to win.

Any chance you could add snap points for the board so the tiles snap in place nicely? That plus a higher quality scan of the board pieces would make this a great mod.

Regarding the 3D version, I own a physical copy of the Avalon Hill version of this game (released quite awhile ago). It had hard plasic cubes instead of flat cardboard chits for board pieces and each company flag was a different shape and color 3D building that stacked on top of the board pieces. Quality production, but a really big game box. Lots of fun to play, though.
Shaul Tzuar 8 Apr, 2016 @ 9:09pm 
I have yet to play this, but it is on my list of 'to play'. I have seen a grail version of this game that has small building tiles instead of flat cardboard i think which allows you to build three dimensionally which would make this game more visually interesting. Do you know what I'm talking about and do you have any plans for creating something similar?
Dr. Placebo 9 Jan, 2016 @ 4:44pm 
are there supposed to be many blank tile cards?
PigheadedGnu 27 Jul, 2015 @ 7:52pm 
Lovely; a real surprise. Thanks!