acquire (avalon hill) board game
TRANSCRIPT
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
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
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
Goal of the game
Net Worth
Cash
Stocks’ value
Bonus
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
When a player puts a tile…
1. Founding of a Corporation
2. Corporation’s size increase
3. Merging of Corporations
4. Allowable moves
Founding of a Corporation
Placing an adjacent tile to a
single tile
New corporation
of your choosing
Free stock Stocks are
available for purchase
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
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
Merging of a corporation
• Clockwise from player who put the tile
Stocks
Trade 2:1
Sell stocks
Hold
Corporation’s size increase
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
The game ends when…
1. All corporations on the gameboard are safe (11 tiles or more)
2. A corporation has 41 tiles
Highest net-worth is the winner!
Net Worth
Cash
Value of Stocks
Bonus
May the tiles be ever in your favor
Acquire Avalon Hill
GL HF