Tiles still on trees waiting to finally be played after 40 years. You can be the first to put this game in service.
The
Fantastic Game of ACQUIRE
This listing is for a
1976/77 Avalon Hill Edition, not played, unpunched game
of ACQUIRE.
This game includes:
Game Board
108 Plastic Game Tiles
7 Plastic Hotel Tiles
25 Ea. Stock
Certificates
Play Money
6 Information Cards
1 Enlarged Information
Card
Lloyd's Rules of
ACQUIRE
Wild Tile Kit
The contents are
as they were 41 years ago. All money and
stock certificates are in not played condition. Tiles
are still on the plastic trees and the information cards
are uncut. The original rules are missing but an adequate
substitute has been provided. The box has moderate shelf wear which is
heaviest around the edges and there is tape on the top
right corner of the top of the box.
Included with
this game is an enlarged information card. This larger
information card allows for easier readability to
determine hotel values during the course of the game and
payout amounts for mergers and the end of the game. The
enlarged information card is printed on yellow
card stock for maximum durability and
readability.
Also included is a Wild
Tile Kit. This kit fits the 3M and Avalon Hill plastic
tile games (1962, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1976, and the Gray
Box Editions) This kit allows each player to start with
a blank tile that can be played anytime during the game
when it is their turn. The Wild Tile Kit includes six
(6) blank tiles and an instruction booklet. The
instruction booklet is printed on yellow card stock for
maximum durability and readability. Adding to the Wild
Tile Kit are Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE. These rules were
designed to help eliminate the one-sided games that can
occur frequently during ACQUIRE game play.
Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE
ACQUIRE is
a fantastic game and a huge tribute to the intellect of
Sid Sackson. Yet after my first experience with the game
I felt the rules needed some adjustments to increase the
ability of the game to attract new players. I wanted the
game to have a broader appeal to more of my friends. The
more friends I could get to enjoy the game, the more
chances I had to play the game. I accomplished this by
creating a way for players to stay involved in the game
even if they didn't have any money. I also crated a
level playing field for obtaining stock while at the
same time increasing the strategic maneuvering of stock
purchasing.
Lloyd's Rules of
ACQUIRE allows trading of stock when a player is out of
money. The player can get rid of stocks that do not help
within their portfolio. It allows these players to try
and maintain majorities in the companies that are most
important to them. It also allows the ability for a
player to invest on every turn to potentially increase
the value of their portfolio without the fear of being
"stuck" with those purchases when they are ultimately
out of money.
Lloyd's Rules of
ACQUIRE eliminates the 2-for-1 trade rule when companies
merge. In the corporate world of hostile takeovers, it
is very
seldom that the
conquering company offers the shareholders of the
vanquished company a cut-rate bargain for the stocks of
the conquering company. The 2-for-1 trade creates the
possibility for a person who holds majority in the
conquering company to lose that majority to numerous
shareholders because they decided to sacrifice their
small company. It also decreases the strategy level of
obtaining majorities and skews the game into more of a
factor of luck and not skill. In Lloyd's Rules of
ACQUIRE the players of the vanquished company are given
payout for their companies and their shares and they can
invest that money wherever they chose when it is their
proper turn.
Lloyd's Rules of
ACQUIRE are printed into a convenient 10-page booklet
that is printed on yellow card stock for long lasting
durability and it fits neatly into the original versions
of this timeless classic. This booklet can be used to
replace old, worn, or lost rules as they conveniently
have the original rules of ACQUIRE fully printed with
Lloyd's changes to the rules printed in red.
This 10-page booklet
also includes a Stock Price Extension chart. This chart
helps when figuring out payouts at times of mergers and
at the end of the game. This chart helps eliminate the
need for a calculator or a math professor. Lloyd's Rules
of ACQUIRE can be used in all editions of ACQUIRE from
1962-2008. The can also be used in the international
editions of ACQUIRE.
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