The deck of cards from the box is placed with on the table with the cover card face up.
It is recommended that players start with Box #1 on their first time playing the game. The Boss deck is chosen and the materials removed from it’s corresponding box. The Wallop cards are shuffled together and placed face down below the board under the Wallop space. The Parry, Time and Coin tokens are placed in separate piles next to the Boss board which is placed in the middle of the play area. The player board is placed in front of the player and the health tokens are placed on their appropriate spaces on the player board. To begin, each player chooses one of the 4 characters and takes the corresponding player board, 5 regular Action dice and 1 EX Action die along with 3 health tokens.
In the end, if the players are able to defeat the bosses and score a lot of points, they will be declared the winners and will earn the top score. Players will need to work together and roll their dice as fast as possible if they hope to beat the timer and knockout the bosses. In this game, players will take on the role of characters from the Cuphead video game as they try to make their way through each level. Cuphead: Fast Rolling Dice Game is a game by Pat Marino, published by The Op.