Acquire is a multi-player mergers and acquisitions themed board game. It is played with tiles representing hotels that are arranged on the board, play money and stock certificates. The object of the game is to earn the most money by developing and merging hotel chains. When a chain in which a player owns stock is acquired by a larger chain, players earn money based on the size of the acquired chain. At the end of the game, all players liquidate their stock in order to determine which player has the most money. It was one of the most popular games in the 1960s 3M bookshelf game series, and the only one still published in the United States.
The following components are included in all versions:
- a compact game board with a hundred spaces (or a few more) in a rectangular array
- sequenced tiles corresponding to the spaces on the board
- a number of different colored markers, representing different hotel chains
- shares of stock for each of the hotel chains
- A supply of play money, in various denominations from $100 up
- a set of charts listing the market prices of shares of the chains
- an instruction manual
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