Certainly -- the trick is do all the prep work *after* you finish a game. Once you are done with the game, sort everything out for the next game. These instructions all assume you will want to take into account the **2-Player variant** when sorting; if you want to ignore the 2-player variant, ignore the bullets flagged with two stars (**). Personally, I play a lot of the 2-player variant because I have a hard time finding a third, so I have plastic bags labelled **2 Players**, **3 Players**, **4 Players**, and **5 Players**. - ** For the 2-player variant, I have sorted out 2 of each production building and 1 of each purple building into one of the trays, and have the remaining buildings in a separate tray labeled "3+ Player Buildings". - ** I have removed three of each type of plantation, and placed the remainder of the plantations in one of the tray spaces. - ** The **2 Player** bag contains: 65 victory points, <strike>40</strike> **42** colonists. It also contains all the barrels of goods *except* for 2 barrels of each type (per the 2-player rules). - The **3 Player** bag contains 10 more victory points, <strike>15</strike> **13** more colonists, and the remaining plantation tiles and goods barrels. - Alternately, if you don't ever plan on playing with only 2 players, the **3 Player** bag should contain the base 75 victory ponits and 55 colonists. You won't need to sort out plantations or barrels in this case. - The **4 Player** bag contains 25 more victory points, and 20 more colonists. - The **5 Player** bag contains the last 22 victory points, and the last 20 colonists. If you write the contents of what the 3, 4 and 5 player bags should have, you can fill those up, and the remainder goes into the 2 player bag. Now all you'll have to do is fish out the necessary corn and indigo plantations to determine who goes first, and you're all set.