ACQUIRE

ABOUT

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Acquire is a multi-player mergers and acquisitions themed board game. It is played with tiles representing hotels that are arranged on the board, play money and stock certificates.

COMPONENTS OF GAME

• Land (board)
• Corporations
• Tiles
• Stock market
• Shares
• Money
• Information card

RULES

• At the beginning of the game, each player receives $6,000.

• To determine who plays first, each player draws one tile and places it in its matching square on the board.

• The player who has drawn the lowest number-letter combination starts play and players will play in ascending order.

• Each player draws six tiles.

• Each player’s turn consists of:

  1. Play a tile onto the gameboard by putting it on its matching space.

     • Depending upon where a tile is played, it may form a corporation or it may merge two or more corporations.

  2. Buy stocks of any active corporations. There is a limit of three total per turn.

  3. Draw a new tile from the facedown cluster.

• Ending the game When all active corporations are safe or one corporation has 41 or more tiles on the board.

INSTALLATION

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clone the project

git clone https://github.com/step-8/acquire-poirot.git

Execute npm install command

npm install

Execute npm setup command

npm run setup

RUN

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GAME

Execute npm start command to run the server

npm start

TEST

Execute npm test command to run the tests

 npm test

VISIT HOMEPAGE

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See the homepage on local machine :

step 1 : run the server

step 2 : visit http://localhost:8888/

Or visit https://acquire-poirot.herokuapp.com/