Acquire

The object of Acquire is to have made the greatest amount of money by the end of the game. This is done by creating hotel chains, buying, trading, and selling shares in these hotels, and by acquiring minority and majority holdings in these hotels. At the end of the game, the person with the most money is declared the winner.
The game board consists of a 12 by 10 grid numbered from 1 to 12 on the x-axis, and lettered from A to I on the y-axis. All the squares on the board have corresponding tiles which represent the hotels the player will use to create the hotel chains. Initially, all these tiles are removed from the board and scrambled, their values kept secret from the players.
At the start, each player is given $6000, and draws a tile. The player whose tile is closest to 1A goes first. These tiles are placed on the board, and then each player draws 6 tiles.
Each player maintains six tiles in their hand - at the end of each players turn, a new tile is drawn.
There are seven hotel chains in Acquire. They vary in prices according to their type and size. As hotels get larger, the price per share in that hotel goes up. Each hotel chain has 25 shares - no more, no less. No more than seven hotel chains can be active at once (this will be explained soon).

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