Learn Acquire

Welcome to Acquire

You are hotel investors in a growing city. Building tiles become hotels, hotels join into chains, and bigger chains acquire smaller ones. Whenever a chain is acquired, its biggest shareholders are paid.

The player with the most money at the end wins.

Tiles and chains

Each tile fits one board space. A tile touching other tiles side by side founds a chain: put a headquarters on it and take a free share. Adding tiles grows it. A chain of 11+ tiles is safe.

The 7 chains come in three price tiers: cheap, middle, expensive.

Your turn

1. Place one of your 6 tiles.
2. Buy up to 3 shares of chains on the board, at the price for their size.
3. Draw a tile.

You never sell shares on a normal turn — only in a merger or at the end.

Mergers

A tile touching two chains merges them. The larger survives. The smaller one’s primary and secondary stockholders (and tertiary in Tycoon Mode) get the bonuses on the info card — flat amounts for their rank.

Then each holder keeps the old shares, sells them, or trades 2 of them for 1 share of the survivor.

The end

When every chain is safe, or one has 41+ tiles, a player may call the end. Pay the bonuses for every chain, sell all shares, and count your cash. Most money wins.

Now try the Setup page, then read Teach the Game.