1. Give every player a pen or a pencil and four half-sheets of wide-ruled lined paper.
2. Have a phone timer or a tea-timer ready at hand.
3. Give every player a voting card and a voting token.
4. Lay out the decks of Quests, Phrases, and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Superlatives.
5. Draw one Prompt card at random and place it face-down in the center of the table without looking at it.
6. Lay out the voting board above the Prompt.