Acquire is a board game published by 3M in 1964 that involves multi-player mergers and acquisitions.

Each player receives play cash and a small random set of playing tiles and becomes the founder of a nascent hotel chain by drawing and placing a tile representing a hotel on the board.

Play consists of placing a tile on the board and optionally buying stock.

Following placement of a tile, the player may then buy a limited number of shares of stock in existing chains.

When the game ends, shareholder bonuses are paid to the two largest shareholders of each chain, and players cash out their shares at market price (shares in any defunct chains are worthless).

When Sid Sackson was a child, he played a Milton Bradley gambling-themed board game titled Lotto.

When Sackson submitted Lotto War to 3M the following year, he retitled the game Vacation.

The new owners reissued a slightly revised version of Acquire in 2000, in which the hotel chains were replaced by fictitious corporations, though the actual gameplay was unchanged.

[9] GAMES magazine inducted Acquire into their buyers' guide Hall of Fame.

[10] The magazine's stated criteria for the Hall of Fame encompasses "games that have met or exceeded the highest standards of quality and play value and have been continuously in production for at least 10 years; i.e., classics."