The players lay out their tiles, face up, in front of them. It's best to sort them out into wall. Triple tiles are divided into three parts. The start field is marked with a soldier, a coach or a boat depending on the type of tile, in the middle is a bridge, and at the other end is the end filed. Double tiles comprise just a start field, again marked.
Single tiles are simultaneously start and end fields.
Once the players have chosen a starting player, then the game can begin. The player whose turn it is may lay one tile, of any size or shape, onto the board. The tile must be laid with it's start field adjacent to a building gang figure, and must be laid squarely onto the board so as to cover exactly 1,2 or 3 squares. The building gang is then moved onto the end field of the newly laid tile. Now it's the turn of the player to the left.