acquire (avalon hill) board game

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