- 2 à 6 joueurs
- A partir de 12 ans
- Durée : 90'
- Année : 2008
- Game in german
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Product Specifications
| Main Language(s): | German unknown |
| Model Number: | 221920000AVHWOC |
| Number of Game Players: | 2 à 6 joueurs |
| Number of Puzzle Pieces: | 1 |
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The right place at the right time at the right price!
As a powerful real estate tycoon, there are only seven hotel chains in the world worthy of your attention. Using nothing but your weatlth and wits, you must vie against other business magnates to manipulate construction and capitalise on mergers - buying trading and selling stocks in order to get the greatest return on your investments.
Acqquire challenges you to pit your resources and resolve against other players in this high-finance game of speculation and strategy.
Acquire is a classic board game that makes a good step-up from Monopoly as it contains a similar mix of luck and strategy. It was first published around 1962 been reprinted many time since. This is the 2008 Hasbro edition.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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One of the very first zero sum games (everybody wins, and stays in the game to the end, with the winner just winning most, worked out at the end). This means more fun all round. (Psychologically more PC to!). No dice, no luck except what others choose to play without knowing what you hold.
Build, develop, calculate cash vs capital, do simple sums, buy shares, plan ahead with a handful of city blocks you hold ready to develop into small or big hotel chains, for long term gain or short term cash flow; take it seriously or just play along: You can have fun either way. 6-99 ages, I was amazed when I discovered this: Fast paced, exciting (do you get developements around the city blocks you already hold, do you draw more in which areas...), get all the ages around a table and everyone has fun all the way to the end.
Gotta be a recommendation for an all time top classic, and beats monopoly hands down on any criteria you please.
Build, develop, calculate cash vs capital, do simple sums, buy shares, plan ahead with a handful of city blocks you hold ready to develop into small or big hotel chains, for long term gain or short term cash flow; take it seriously or just play along: You can have fun either way. 6-99 ages, I was amazed when I discovered this: Fast paced, exciting (do you get developements around the city blocks you already hold, do you draw more in which areas...), get all the ages around a table and everyone has fun all the way to the end.
Gotta be a recommendation for an all time top classic, and beats monopoly hands down on any criteria you please.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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We visited an aunt who had an older version of this game which her family had enjoyed for years.It is quite like Monolopy in that you have to set up hotel chains but then you can also buy shares, merge or take over other chains so there is a stock market element to it as well. It is also hard to know who has won until right at the end when all the shares and cash you own are counted! We were delighted to find it on Amazon...Suits bright 10 years old to adult.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Game is great, better versions exist if you can find them
19 July 2008
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The other reviews are correct, there are other versions of this great game that will hold up better and are better looking. However, I would want to make sure that anyone who doesn't already own this great game is aware that the game itself is a lot of fun and there are many variations/rules variants that can also keep it fresh for long time players. If you haven't tried partnership Acquire, give it a try, it's a whole different game.
For those not familiar with the game, there are tiles that are placed on the game board. When two or more are joined, they form a hotel chain. Only 6 hotel chains can exist on the board at a time, so certain tiles can become unplayable for a period of time. When a tile is played that connects two hotels, they are merged with the longer chain taking over the smaller. If they are the same size, the person playing the merging tile determines which chain takes over.
The subtleties of the game make it one of the true gems of boardgames. Sid Sackson developed the original version about 50 years ago and hundreds, if not thousands, of games have been developed since that in same ways have employed some of the mechanics and strategic elements of this game. Each player has unique information about the future growth of the hotels and the upcoming mergers. They can each take advantage of this but of course, other players can observe what they do and infer what information they have...
If you haven't played this game, you should definitely try it out. You may later find yourself searching on ebay for one of the earlier versions, but this will certainly be a great addition to your games closet if you don't already have it!
For those not familiar with the game, there are tiles that are placed on the game board. When two or more are joined, they form a hotel chain. Only 6 hotel chains can exist on the board at a time, so certain tiles can become unplayable for a period of time. When a tile is played that connects two hotels, they are merged with the longer chain taking over the smaller. If they are the same size, the person playing the merging tile determines which chain takes over.
The subtleties of the game make it one of the true gems of boardgames. Sid Sackson developed the original version about 50 years ago and hundreds, if not thousands, of games have been developed since that in same ways have employed some of the mechanics and strategic elements of this game. Each player has unique information about the future growth of the hotels and the upcoming mergers. They can each take advantage of this but of course, other players can observe what they do and infer what information they have...
If you haven't played this game, you should definitely try it out. You may later find yourself searching on ebay for one of the earlier versions, but this will certainly be a great addition to your games closet if you don't already have it!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Not as durable as the original, but readily available once again!
7 Aug 2008
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I ordered this product after some consideration. I had played the original Avalon-Hill version with a friend who had a copy from his childhood. The game itself is fun and different from other finance games. On the older version that I played, the game tiles were plastic and fit into a grid to prevent slippage. On the new version, the game tiles are made of a cardstock and there is no grid. This is an annoying difference only when you are trying to play a game near animals or small children. Otherwise it's fine. This version of the game is available at a lesser cost than any of the originals on Ebay, so if you want it, snap it up while it's available!
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
not like the the 1999 version
7 Jun 2008
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well, we played this game last night at my house.We have all the versions.Our aquire group(4 couples) was countiong the days until we could play the new version. This cardbord copy of the 1999 edition is as entertaining as the original, however it lacks the 3d feel of earlier versions. I personally do not like it as much.This game introduced 2 new things: a tile holder (good Ignovation) and the hotels are 2 pices long instead of 1. However having the 1999 version(our favorite by far) we will never play this new version again.
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