Acquire - GameNight! Se11 Ep21 - How to Play and Playthrough 

Nobody: Dave: Please draw a replacement tile 🤣

Nice to see that Dave has the objectively correct opinion that stocks and cash should be played open. He also makes a pile of five stocks and turns them perpendicular to his other shares! A gentleman and a scholar.

What a fun game to watch! My favorite board game channel!

I love that you showed all those older versions. I remember the 90's version for sure. For the first time ever, i think you have a game that looks like a decent production in each iteration. Like you said, you'd be happy with any version. So many other games that have been reproduced over the years, most of the time there are horrible produced versions you'd be glad to get rid of.

When Lincoln founded Continental, he got his free stock, but then he bought an additional one with two stocks of Tower...he didn't grab that 2nd Continental stock, so he shorted himself one stock. hahaha. Well...on the other hand, at the 30 minute mark, Lincoln started the last hotel (American, the dark blue one)...he got his free one, put it in his stack, then bought another one, which he first put on the stack, then moved it off so it wouldn't be confusing...after that, he bought two more Sackson ...this is where it gets funny, he picked up the two red stocks and another American and put them in the stacks, forgetting he had already set aside his American purchase...later when straightening up his play area, he placed that American stock back on his stack, so on that turn he actually got 3 stocks of American and 2 stocks of Sackson. So he shorted himself one stock of Continental, but gifted himself a free stock of American...not sure how either move effected future moves, but I do find it funny that one accident cost him one and another accident got him one basically nullifying the first error. What a wheeler and dealer!

The Avalon Hill Version is still the prettiest. I do own the Schmidt spiele and the 3M Version as well.

Definitely a Thumbs Up for this one guys, fantastic video! Acquire is one of my all time favourite games, and I'm the proud owner of a 1999 AH copy, considered the best by some. I only bring it out on very special occasions, like let's say... if King Charles wanted to play, otherwise people will just have to do with my old and battered 3M Bookshelf copy that I picked up secondhand years ago. It's really great to see you guys playing older games - albeit in a modern reincarnation - because some of them are really excellent games that people know nothing about. Indeed me and some of my games playing friends have often said if we had the resources and skills to make videos of a quality as good as you, we'd do a channel showing only vintage games being played. I'd really love to see you give Hare & Tortoise by David Parlett the GameNight! treatment, another of my very favourite games. Absolutely brilliant video, really, really enjoyed this one, I'm now about to walk away from my computer with a huge smile on my face, and it's all because of you, thanks guys! 👍😁

Thanks again for an excellent play through. Very enjoyable. And thank you Dave for explaining the rules very clearly. Always a delight to watch your content.

I've really enjoyed these company investing/strategy games! (Big Boss last week and now this one) It's amazing how they are relatively straight forward in terms of play, but is quite thinky and surprisingly tense as the game goes on. Really fun to watch the playthroughs! :)

Awesome game, thanks for playing this one, hope for more older games coming back to the table

Great video, as usual! Thank you for sharing! 🙂 I wonder why Sid Sackson games like «Acquire» or «Can't Stop» have their best editions in 1999 and 1980 respectively, and I don´t understand why publishers have not continued with those good game designs, since all the new editions have not managed to surpass those old ones. I suppose it will be due to actual problems of production costs, retail price and so on... This 2023 edition is OK, of course, but I prefer 1999 one.

Fun game. It's been around for a long time, yet I'd never heard of it. Thank you for the great teach and enjoyable playthrough!

Very good game. Thanks for the video

Acquire is played in business schools, usually to teach/practice strategic management skills

Super fun episode 😇 Looks like a fun and interesting game 😀 Also - Love Nikkis' shirt 🥰 Game Night rules 🥰

Great video! Tempter to pick up a copy Please take a replacement tile. Need that on a t-shirt.

41:30 Nikki should have bought shares before Lincon started his turn.

Any chance we'll ever get a playthrough of Power Grid? I can just imagine the auction round with the 4 of you!!

I was happy to pick this version up, but those little flags on the building keep falling off! Gotta take some time to glue them.

This game still holds up really well, and usually gets at least one play a year when I visit family. Lincoln: Have you actually been to the Seattle Pinball Museum? It's cool isn't it?

Definitely never heard of this until watching this.

Cheer~~buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself.

What a great game never seen this, I don't really like monopoly this is sort of of that ilk business game but seems to complete quickly. I was sure Mike was winning so a real surprise for me at the end. I like the way you play open and friendly.

Excellent episode! Any recommendations on such a bag (Amazon etc.)?

I’ve only just gotten through the teach, but is ‘absorb’ the word Dave is looking for?

You should have used Scrabble time holders to hold your tiles.

Trying to sneak that 'build chain, get stocks' double header past us huh.

Dave, during the rules explanation you mentioned that the shareholder bonuses are only for mergers but you seem to pay them out at the end of the game before letting everyone sell their shares?

In the original game the shareholder bonuses were paid out at the end of the game as well.

players should cannibalize an old Scrabble game so the players can use the trays to hold their tiles.

do those card trays come with this edition of Acquire?

I couldn't figure out how to edit my last comment. Realize that there is no reason to list shareholder bonuses above 11 unless they would pay out sometime. I am pretty sure you got that rule wrong.

where did you get the bag from?

is this game essentially a precursor/successor to big boss (which you played in the previous episode)? the rules of this game feel like they are almost exactly the same as big boss this gave me major deja vu during the rules explanation

Can we get a moonraker expansion. Or thing outpost

since you've played both: acquire or big boss?

This version is comparable to acquire version 1999 edition.

Shark - is another financial board game that I find more cutthroat.

So this or big boss ??? (You can only choose 1)

My version is from 1976

You definately errored when you were detailing the rules. At end game, the stockholder's bonuses are paid out.

I agree with Dave and I think big boss has some more modern mechanics and better game play than this one.

Watching Americans do math is painful