This 1976/1977 Avalon Hill Edition of
ACQUIRE comes with a Wild Tile Variant Kit, an enlarged
Information Card, and Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE. This
ACQUIRE game has never been played and includes:
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1976 Avalon Hill
Edition of ACQUIRE
with an enlarged Information Card,
a Wild Tile Variant Kit,
and Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE
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- Game Board
- 108 Plastic Game Tiles
- 7 Plastic Hotel Markers
- 25 Stock Certificates for each hotel
- Play Money
- 6 Information Cards
- Instructions
The contents of this game are
the same as they were 42 years ago. All money and
stock certificates are in never-been-played
condition. The 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 of the box in the top-right corner.
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ACQUIRE Plastic Wild Tile
Variant Kit
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ACQUIRE Plastic
Wild Tile Variant Kit
and Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE
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Also included with this game is a Wild Tile Variant Kit
that fits the 3M and Avalon Hill plastic tile ACQUIRE
games. This kit allows each player to start with a
blank tile that can be played on any open square during
their turn at any time during the game.
This ACQUIRE Wild Tile Kit includes six (6) blank
plastic tiles and an instruction booklet that can be
used with the 1962, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1976 and gray box
plastic tile versions of ACQUIRE. The instruction
booklet is printed on yellow card stock for maximum
durability and readability.
Included with this Wild Tile Kit are Lloyd's Rules of
ACQUIRE, which were designed to help eliminate the
one-sided games that can occur during game play.
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Enlarged ACQUIRE Information Card
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ACQUIRE
Enlarged Information Card
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Included with this game is an enlarged information
card. The information card allows for easier
readability to determine hotel values and payouts at the
time of merger. It is printed on yellow card stock
for greater visibility and durability.
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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 that 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 the
didn't have any money. I also created 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 the player and trade them for
stocks that are more important within their
portfolio. It allows these players to try and
maintain majorities in the companies that are most
important. It also allows the ability for players
to invest on every turn, to potentially increase their
portfolio, without the fear of being "stuck" with those
purchases when they are ultimately out of money.
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Vintage ACQUIRE Games with
Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE
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Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE
eliminates the 2- for-1 trade rule when companies
merge. In the corporate world of hostile
takeovers, is 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.
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Lloyd's Rules
of ACQUIRE
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The 2-for-1 trade creates the possibility for a person
who holds majority in a conquering company to lose that
majority to numerous shareholders because they decided
to sacrifice their small company. It decreases the
strategy level of obtaining majorities and skews the
game into more of a factor of luck. In Lloyd's
Rules of ACQUIRE, the players of the vanquished company
are given payouts for their companies, and their shares,
and they can invest wherever they choose when it is
their 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 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
payouts at times of merger or 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. They can also be used in
the International versions of ACQUIRE. They can be
used with the Special Powers Variants that were found in
the 1993 Schmidt Spiel edition and the 1995 Avalon Hill
Edition. They can also be used with the Wild Tile
Variant and the 1963 World Map Conversion Kit. |
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Rules of ACQUIRE |
ACQUIRE
Stock Price Extension
Charts
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