Game Components
Game Board1
Player Boards6, double-sided
Six-sided Tiles164
Worker Tiles30
Bonus Tiles12
100/200 Tiles4
Also: 42 goods tiles (7 in each of 6 colours), 24 silver coins, 26 worker chips, 8 playing pieces, 9 dice (2 per player colour plus a white one), 16 duchy boards and 4 overview boards, plus the expansions (see How to play).
Game Setup
- Game board. In the middle. Put the silver coins, worker chips and the white die beside it. Use the front side with 4 players; flip it to the back with 2 or 3.

- Six-sided tiles. Sort by the colour of their backs into separate face-down supplies.

- Goods. Shuffle the 42 goods tiles face down. Put a pile of 5 on each phase space A–E. Keep the other 17 aside.
- Bonus tiles. Put the 12 bonus tiles on their spaces on the board.


Each player
- Player board. Everyone takes the same duchy: No. 1 or No. 2. Add an overview board below it.

- Start castle. A dark green castle tile on the dark green middle space (die value 6).

- 3 goods. At random from the 17 aside, on your 3 goods storage spaces: same colours stacked together. Return any leftover goods to the box.
- Dice and pieces. Your 2 dice; one piece on 0 of the victory point track; your 100/200 tile beside your board.
- 1 silver coin. On its space on your board, visible to everyone.
Don't forget
- Workers. Roll for start player. They take 1 worker chip, the next player 2, the third 3, the fourth 4.

- Turn order. Stack your second pieces on the first space of the turn order track: start player on top, last player at the bottom.
- White die. Goes to the start player.