kill the unicorns is played by first picking a character card randomly. a character card has a picture of a question mark on the back of it. then you pick the scheme cards and the hunt cards that have the symbol of your character. you set up by first giving each person a rubber brown thing that looks like a belt. this is used to organize your unicorn cards with. then you put your character card above it and shuffle your hunt cards. then you stack your hunt cards face down in a pile next to your character card. then you shuffle your scheme cards and put them face down next to your character card on the other side from the hunt cards. now you take all the starter cards and put them in a pile face down. other cards. another pile. you want to shuffle these cards as well.