- Place the 9 “City” tiles in ascending order on the table (from the lowest (1) to the highest (25)).

- For each “City” tile, Shuffle the correspondingly numbered treasure cards and place them in a face down pile next to the “City” tile.

- Place the aircraft on the first “City” tile.

- Each player chooses an “Adventurer” tile (he keeps it in front of him) and places the “Adventurer” pawn of the same color in the aircraft.