A quick instructions on how to play Acquire, a board game by Avalon Hill. Object of the game: Have the most money at the end of the game. You make money by forming corporations, buying the right stock at the right time, as well as merging and expanding corporations in which you own stock. Players: 2 to 6 players Ages: 12 and up Duration: ++90 minutes

2. Game setup
• Place the gameboard on a flat surface
• There are 7 corporations:
– 2 high-priced
– 3 medium-priced
– 2 low-priced
• There are 25 stocks per corporation
• There are 108 tiles
• Max 6 players

3. Player Setup
• Each person receives $6,000 starting money:
– 4 of $1,000 bills
– 3 of $500 bills
– 5 of $100 bills
$6,000
5 of
$100
4 of
$1,000
3 of
$500

4. Player Setup
Clockwise:
Each player
draw a tile
Put the tile
on the
gameboard
Tile closest to
1A starts first
(Alphabet
then number)
Clockwise:
Starting
player draws
6 tiles

5. Goal of the game
Net
Worth
Cash
Stocks’
value
Bonus

6. Each player’s turn
1. Place a tile from your 6 tiles
2. (Receive bonus and exchange/hold
stocks if a merger happens)
3. Buy up to three stocks (and sell
your stocks)
4. Take a new tile

7. When a player puts a tile…
1. Founding of a Corporation
2. Corporation’s size increase
3. Merging of Corporations
4. Allowable moves

8. Founding of a Corporation
Placing an
adjacent
tile to a
single tile
New
corporation
of your
choosing
Free stock
Stocks are
available for
purchase

9. Merging of a corporation
2 or ++ Corps joined by
a single adjacent tile
Larger eats
smaller
2++ Corps:
Larger to Small
size. If same size,
player chooses

10. Merging of a corporation
The absorbed corporation will pay out bonus to
its major and minor stockholders:
Case 1
Most stocks Major bonus
2nd most stocks Minor bonus
Rest Nothing
Case 2
1 or more
players have the
most stocks
Major + Minor
bonus split
equally
Rest Nothing
Case 3
Most stocks Major bonus
2 or more players have
2nd most stocks
Minor bonus is
split equally
Rest Nothing

11. Merging of a corporation
• Clockwise from player who put the tile
Stocks
Trade
2:1
Sell
stocks
Hold

12. Corporation’s size increase

13. Allowable moves
• Nothing happens
A single tile
alone
• No adjacent tiles are allowed
• Diagonal is allowed
All
corporations
founded
• Discard all tiles
• Draw 6 new tiles
All adjacent
tiles

14. The game ends when…
1. All corporations on the gameboard are safe
(11 tiles or more)
2. A corporation has 41 tiles

15. Highest net-worth is the winner!
Net
Worth
Cash
Value of
Stocks
Bonus

16. May the tiles be ever in your favor
Acquire
Avalon Hill
GL HF