Editing Acquire (section)

=== Set up ===
Before play begins, the players must decide whether the numbers of players' shares will be public or private information. Keeping this information private can greatly extend the game since players will be less certain of their status, and therefore less willing to end the game.

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.  Tiles are ordered, and correspond to spaces on the board. Position of the starting tiles determines order of play.