Acquire Game Instructions

Set up the game by placing the game board on your playing surface, such as your coffee or dining room table and place the gray tiles, face down, on the table next to the game board. Delegate one of the participants to be the stock market banker and arrange the cards and hotel pieces in the stock market tray.

Give each player one information card, four $1,000 bills, three $500 bills and five $100 bills equalling $6,000. Each player divides their faux money by denominations and places the piles near their playing area.

Draw one gray tile from the cluster near the playing board for each player and the player with the tile closest to 1A is the player who goes first. All drawn tiles are placed on the game board in their specific designated place.

Each player draws six gray tiles and sets them up to hide the values from the others. The group decides to allow all assets to be openly displayed during the game or hidden but an open-display is recommended for beginners or first-time players in lieu of remembering how much stock each player has acquired.

Play one tile from the six chosen and place it on the game board in its designated space. The player purchases stock from any active company with a three stock limit per turn. Draw another tile from the gray tiles clustered near the game board.

No action is taken when a tile is placed in an open space with no tiles directly touching it.

Place a tile vertically or horizontally next to an unincorporated business on the playing board and incorporate the firm by choosing a corporation playing piece from the stock market tray and places it on a corporation tile. The player is given a founder's stock bonus without a fee. No founder's stock fee is given if all players are holding incorporated business stock and only seven corporations are able to be placed on the game board unless a later merger takes place.

Play a tile between two or more corporations to create a merger between them. The corporation with more titles takes over the smaller corporation. In the event that the corporations are the same size, the mergemaker, or the player who placed the merging tile, makes the decision.

Save your company by holding 11 or more tiles and avoid being taken over by another corporation. Any tile attempting to merge two "safe" corporations is discarded and placed back into the cluster of gray tiles next to the game board.

Show your exact number of stocks in any company being merged to declare the player with the most stock as the majority stockholder and the second place stock amount is the minority stockholder. Those players receive the majority and minority stock bonuses from the banker.

Hold, trade or sell your stock during your playing turn. Mergers may also take place between more than two companies and, as previously stated, the largest company takes hold of all companies being merged together.

Buy up to three shares of stock in any corporation after laying a tile on the playing board, if you so choose. All three shares may be purchased in one company or two in one and one in another. All stock money is paid into the stock market tray and is determined by first finding the name of the corporation on the information card, looking to see how many playing tiles in the corporation and figuring from the stock price on the card. There are only 25 shares allotted per corporation.

Running out of money forces a player to refrain from purchasing stock but must play tiles on their turn.

End the game when either all corporations are safe or one corporation has 41 or more tiles on the board. The player with the most money wins after cashing in the stock at the current prices and bonuses for majority and minority stockholders are compensated.