Acquire

by Hasbro

Product Features

• GAMES magazine HALL OF FAME Award-Winner!
• A collectible edition of one of the best board games ever made!
• Brand New and Still in Original Factory Packaging!
• Payers: 3-6 . . . Ages 12+
• Setup Time: 5 Minutes . . . Playing Time: 90 Minutes

Product Details

• Item Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 6.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00005EB9Z
• Item model number: HAS41305
• Manufacturer recommended age: 12 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,384 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

As a powerful tycoon, there are only seven businesses in the world worthy of your attention. Using nothing but your wealth and wits, you must vie against other business superpowers to manipulate construction and capitalize on mergers -- buying, trading, and selling stocks in order to get the greatest return on your investments. Acquire challenges you to pit your resources and resolve against other players in this high-finance game of speculation and strategy!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The "Boardwalk" of all $$$ Games! Monopoly is outahere!, October 1, 2003

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SAW (Baltimore, Maryland) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Acquire (Board Game)

Acquire is one of the most incredible Money-Hotel/Corporation games to be invented! Fast paced, full of surprises! Mergers, takeovers and upsets. NO two games are ever alike and like the stock exchange, you don't know who is the winner until the "bell" rings! The reason this outshines games such as Monopoly, it that ACQUIRE it is truly a "group" game! All the players play until the end and enjoy the fun equally. In Monopoly the goal is to "wipe out" the other players. If you play with six people, eventually four or so are off doing other things. How exciting is it to watch a greedy mogul in the final conquering stages. In Acquire, everyone plays to the bitter end and more often then not, the winner may be decided by a one note difference; talk about suspenseful endings. Strategies that work one time, will vary the next. I enjoy that there is less luck; as in mind-numbing rolling of "casino mentality" dice, and more strategy. In Acquire you always have six options open to you, but will you make the right choice, or did you hold out too long. The result can change the direction of the game for all. Also, the corporation of the most importance or profit margin vary from game to game. In Monopoly, Boardwalk is always Boardwalk and Baltic Ave is always Baltic Ave. I seriously doubt anyone has ever won investing solely on Baltic Ave. Yet in Acquire, the third class corporations may end up on top in one game, while a middle stock may be the dominate one in the next game. Ahhh! Variety is the spice of life! Finally, the best aspect of Acquire is that the game only takes twenty to forty minutes;whereas, Mononoply may go on for days (for some of the players) Yawn!
I have taught over fifteen people this game and we have regular Acquire nights where we will play two to three games in one setting. Everyone have ACQUIRED their own GAME and have gone on to ACQUIRE other new players. One friend just named their new puppy ZETA... You may wonder where they ACQUIRED that name... get a game and find out! You won't be disappointed, but you may ACQUIRE a new addiction to a board game!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why buy Monopoly when you can ACQUIRE this??, June 27, 2002

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ekh_86 (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Acquire (Board Game)

ACQUIRE is a classic financial game. Buy stock and maneuver corporations. Cash in bonuses for being a major stockholder when the mergers happen!

This is the best-looking American edition of this game (it's been printed several times by different publishers here and in Europe), with nice colored headquarters buildings and chunky gray board tiles, with a glossy black board that holds the tiles in place.

The game plays quickly, and is over in about 45 minutes or so. You'll usually be paying attention even when it's not your turn, as your opponents tile placements and stock buys will often affect your plans. Everyone is in the game to the end (no one gets eliminated), and the game usually ends up being pretty close. Sometimes the winner is someone you thought had no chance, but you'll figure out when the winner turned it around during the after-action analysis. Why play Monopoly (which takes about 4 times as long to play) when you can play ACQUIRE, which is at least 4 times as fun and interesting?

P.S. - Someone must be high in Tallahassee. There are 9x12= 108 tiles in this version, the SAME as every other edition of ACQUIRE that I have ever seen. The number of companies and stock certificates are the same, also. So don't worry, this edition has all the standard pieces the previous editions had, and is prettier to boot!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Adventure in High Finance, February 22, 2005

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Pistol Pete "Pete" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Acquire (Board Game)

This is a really great game. I can't believe it has flown under my radar for so long. I actually don't play the new "Avalon Hill" version. I prefer the 1960s 3M version, available on Ebay if nowhere else. The 1960s version is quite a bit simpler and doesn't have the gaudy colors and names that the new version has. But basically they are the same game.

There are two main reasons this game is far superior to Monopoly - 1. No dice - that element of chance is not present - there is still some chance, but it is a very level playing field. 2. There is no negotiations like there is in Monopoly. My brothers and I had to stop playing Monopoly after a while because we would fight too much. But we can play Acquire because there are no negotiations! You just build hotels and buy stock. Great game - great fun for the whole family (provided the family is old enough to understand and play well - I suggest 14 and up).

Another great game is Settlers of Catan, and though it does have dice and negotiations, it is a very good game too.