Has anyone Figured out the Lost bord game instructions?

Question

My cousin and I had gotten the Lost board game for Christmas and decided to play it. We opened the box and looked at the directions. We figured it would be easy but once we started reading it, it sounded like some kind of science expermint that only a scientist would figure out. Can anyone HELP ME!?!?

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Answer 1

Here's the simplified version of the rules, according to one person:

"Here is the game:

You set up a board of random face-down hexes and place your character markers at a start. Each character has a power number and special ability, and some of them have their own victory conditions. Each turn you move your character(s) one hex, flip over the tile and do what it says. If it’s already face up you can engage the location (do what it says) or engage another character on that piece. Engaging a character means you either try to take control of them or do their special ability (ie, healing).

Throughout the game more non-player characters can pop up for players to try to take control of and use to strengthen their party or explore more of the island hexes. Most hexes will make you flip over a fate card.

And these fate cards deliver a fatal blow to the game. Since your turn basically consists of moving each of your characters one hex and doing what you are told on the new hex, your fate literally balances on these fate cards. Some of them are beneficial and can go into your hand for future use (event cards), some can be equipped to the character finding them (equipment cards), and some are very detrimental and can kill off your character before you know what hit you (encounter cards). If your character is hit once it is injured, if it’s hit again while it’s still injured, it is killed. If your character is killed you are out of the game and get to watch the other players (or go watch the season finale again.)

Interaction between the encounter cards and other players is based on two numbers: the power value of your character – which can be enhanced by equipment, fate cards, and your other characters in the same area – and a six-sided die roll. This is the engine of the game. If you run into one of the Others with power 14 and you have power 5, you obviously know that there is no way you can win. Of course, you can combine forces later, but by then it’s too late and your first character is probably injured or even dead.

And once you do have a caravan of characters with a combined higher power running around, so do your opponents. The game then turns into a race to see if the higher power players can get to and kill the lower power players. Once those characters are defeated, the higher power player can then take control of them and become even stronger. Player elimination combined with the rich get richer. This ain’t Monopoly, but it sure does sound like it!"

There's a game play report here which might help as well:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/122120