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Puerto Rico - Rules - Preparation

Place the game board in the middle of the table. Place all the buildings on their assigned spaces on the game board. Sort the doubloons by value and place them on the bank on the game board. The players choose a starting player using any method they choose.

Each player takes:

• 1 player board (placed before him on the table).
• money (see below) which the players store on the wind rose on their players boards, so that all players can see how much money each player has.
• 1 plantation tile (see below) - the starting player takes the first plantation type in the list below, the second player the next, and so on.

Place the remaining material on and around the game board. All 8 quarry tiles are placed in a face-up pile. All the remaining plantations tiles are well shuffled in 5 face-down stacks. 4, 5 or 6 plantation tiles (one more than the number of players) are taken from the face-down stacks and placed face-up next to the quarry tile stack. All other material is placed face-up.

The number of items in use varies according to the number of players: