Divide the deck according to the color of the back of the cards: Red (16), White (32) and Green (40).

Remember that in the box there are two extra Joker cards. One is for the game in 5 players, the other is used as a spare emergency card.

The dealer will distribute the cards to each player this way:

• 4 Red cards: uncovered, and these cards will remain accessible and visible to all
• 8 White cards: covered, but each player can pick them up and look them
• 6 Green cards: covered, the players can’t look at them until the right conditions are created: this bunch of cards is called "the well".

The 16 remaining cards are placed on the table, covered, in a grid of 4 x 4 on the center table called "the field".

At this point you should find yourself in a situation similar to that of the figure showed to the right, where you also see the cards of one of the players: the four "lands". The 8 White cards ready to be picked up, and the remaining six Green cards.

Everything is ready: The player who owns the Eggplant “Farmland” card, which has a black number “1”, starts.

The game continues clockwise until one of the players doesn’t finish his turn, and as such, finishes all the cards that he has.