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To set up the game, place the three play mats (green, blue, brown) in front of you to form the play area. Take two life point tokens and set them aside, then take the remaining 20 as your starting health. Stack the phase cards (green, yellow, red) so that the green card is on top. Shuffle the pirate deck, draw two cards, and set them aside. Shuffle the three difficult aging cards (white hair and beard) and place them face down on the blue mat. Then, shuffle the remaining aging cards (brown hair and beard) and place them face down on top of the difficult aging cards. Shuffle the 30 hazard cards and place them face down on the green mat. Finally, shuffle the 18 Robinson cards and place them face down on the brown mat.

The objective of the game is to help Robinson Crusoe, a shipwreck victim, become strong enough to defeat two pirate ships and leave your island. You do this by improving his deck of fighting cards and managing his health points through a series of encounters with hazards and aging cards.

Each turn, draw the top two cards from the hazard deck. Choose one to face and one to ignore, placing the ignored card into the hazard discard pile. The chosen hazard card shows numbers on the side indicating the fighting points needed to defeat it, depending on the current phase (green, yellow, or red). The white box on the hazard card shows how many free cards you can draw from your Robinson deck, placing them to the left of the hazard. You must draw at least one card, but can stop anytime. If you've met your free card limit, you can sacrifice a life point to draw an additional card, placing these to the right of the hazard. Some cards have special abilities that can be activated once per encounter by turning them 90 degrees. Aging cards, if drawn, must have their special abilities activated unless you can destroy them. Once you've drawn and activated cards, add up the values of all fighting and aging cards in front of you (including negatives) to get your total fight value for the encounter.

After the game ends, calculate your score. Add up the values on all of your fighting cards (including negatives). Add 15 points for each defeated pirate. Add 5 points for each remaining life point. Then, subtract 5 points for each aging card still in your deck (regardless of value) and 3 points for each undefeated hazard card. The final sum is your score.

The game ends in one of two ways. You lose if Robinson's life points drop to zero at any point, or if you run out of cards in your draw pile and have no aging cards left to shuffle in. You win if you successfully defeat both pirate ships.