Setup for 1-Player a Game of Grand Austria Hotel

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Player Setup

Player Color	Turn Order	Starting Items	Player Board
Elisabeth	1 ↗↘ Starting player Last to draft Rehearsal Room Last to draft Guest card		Board B
Blue	2 ↗↘	10 on money track Strudel x1 Cake x1 Wine x1 Coffee x1 Champagne x1 Dancers x10	Board C

Other Setup

Dice	Total Number of Dice = 10
Politics / Objective Cards
Emperor Tiles
Ballrooms
Drafted Rehearsal Rooms
Elisabeth Instruction Cards	x20 Dark Brown cards x20

Your Custom Setup Script

• Module 1 specific setup
• Module 2 specific setup
• Solo specific setup

Common Play Area

1. Place the game board in the middle of the play area. The game board features spaces for Politics/Objective cards, Guest cards, and Emperor tiles; also, the Round, Emperor, and score tracks. (The two sides of the game board differ only in looks. You can use whichever side you like best, e.g., matching the hotel boards, see step 8a.)
   1. Place the Round marker on the first space of the Round track.
   2. Place the Emperor tiles depicted above face up on their corresponding spaces (below the Round track). Return the remaining Emperor tiles to the game box—you will not need them.
   3. Place the Politics/Objective cards depicted above face up on their corresponding spaces (to the left of the Round track). Return the remaining Politics/Objective cards to the game box—you will not need them.
   4. Shuffle the Guest cards and place them in a face-down deck to the left of the game board. The Guest card deck will contain 85 total cards (+2 for revised edition):
      • 56 (+2 for revised edition) Guest cards from the base game
      • 29 Guest cards marked [Module 1 Music Note] for Module 1
   5. Then draw five guest cards from the deck and place them face up on the designated spaces at the bottom, from right to left. This is called the queue.
   6. Place the victory point tiles near the game board. Use them to indicate when you reach or pass 75 and 150 victory points on the score track.
2. Place the Action board next to the game board. The Action board features six action spaces associated with dice values 1 through 6.
   1. Turn the Action board to the side showing [Module 1 Music Note]
      If you have an older copy of the base game, instead, place the overlay covering the and actions, with the [Module 1 Music Note] side showing.
      
   2. Place a number and color of dice depicted above near the Action board. Return the remaining dice, if any, to the game box—you will not need them.
   3. Place the Dustbin nearby.
3. Sort the dishes and drinks and place them in separate piles near the 1 and 2 Action spaces.
4. Place the champagne tokens with the dishes and drinks.
5. Sort the Room tiles by color and place them in separate stacks near the 3 action space.
   If you’re having trouble with colors, take notice of the little icons differentiating the tiles.
6. Shuffle all of the Staff cards and place them nearby, face down. The Staff card deck will contain 63 total cards :
   
   • 48 Staff cards from the base game
   • 15 Staff cards marked [Module 1 Music Note] for Module 1
Introductory Variant: On your first play, you should remove all staff cards marked A-D (on the front), before you shuffle the deck.
7. Take the three Ballroom boards depicted above with the depicted side face up, and place them side by side above the game board, in the depicted order. Return the remaining ballroom boards to the game box—you will not need them.
1. Place the Round indicator tiles depicted above above the ballroom boards.
2. Place the Balcony board to the right of the ballroom boards, so that the door aligns with the top row of the rightmost ballroom.
8. Place the new Overview cards with their base game counterparts.
9. Place the Lounge board beside the Action board.
1. Shuffle the Celebrity tiles and place them in a face-down stack next to the Lounge.
2. Draw three Celebrities from the stack and place them face up on the Lounge, from left to right, one Celebrity per space.
3. Place the extra Victory Points chits nearby.

Personal Play Area

10. Take the Turn Order tile as depicted above.
11. Take the Hotel board depicted above, a Money track, a money marker, and the five markers in a color of your choice.
1. Place the hotel board in front of you accordingly with the side depicted above face up.
   For your first play, we recommend using the night side. Oh, and please leave a bit of space below the hotel board for guests.
2. Place the Money track next to your Hotel board and the money marker on space indicated above.
3. Place two markers on the game board: the crest-shaped marker on "0/75" on the Score track and the bust-shaped marker on "0" on the Emperor track.
4. Place the three badge-shaped markers beside your hotel board.
   You will need those markers later if you complete a Politics Card/Objective.
5. Return the remaining Hotel boards, Money tracks, money markers, and markers of unused colors to the game box—you will not need them.
12. Take the starting dishes depicted above (if any) from the supply and place these four items in the kitchen of your hotel board.
13. Before drawing your initial hand of Staff cards, look through the deck and retrieve all cards with the → (Final Scoring) symbol. Shuffle these cards, draw 5 cards without looking at them, and place them in a facedown stack beside Elisabeth’s hotel board, as his private deck. Shuffle the remaining → (Final Scoring) cards back into the common deck. Elisabeth does not draw any Staff cards, nor does he reveal any cards in his private deck at this point.
14. Draw 10 Staff cards from the common deck and select 6 of them for your initial hand. Return the other 4 to the bottom of the common deck, in any order.
15. Take one Guest card from the queue, ignoring the cost, and place it at a table in your café (below your hotel board). Close the gap by sliding the remaining guests in the queue to the right and placing a new guest from the deck face up on the empty space on the left.
    Elisabeth does not draw an inital Guest card.
16. Finally, prepare 3 Rooms in your hotel by taking room tiles from the supply and placing them, with the Vacant side up, on same-colored spaces of your hotel board. You must start with the bottom left space and any subsequent rooms must be placed orthogonally adjacent to already placed ones.
    When placing a room, pay the cost indicated at the start of the floor (i.e. row) by moving the marker on your money track down accordingly.
    • Elisabeth does not prepare three rooms at the start.