Friday

Draw the two topmost hazard cards, choose one as the actual hazard and place it face-up in front of Robinson, and discard the other to the hazard discard pile (p.4).

The white box on the hazard card shows how many free fighting cards you may draw (place on the left); after those free draws you may sacrifice life points to draw additional cards, one extra card per life point placed (p.4).

You may use the special abilities of any drawn face-up fighting cards in any order, finishing one ability before starting another, and aging cards’ abilities must be used when drawn (pp.5, 12).

If you lose (or deliberately lose) you pay life equal to the difference between the hazard value and your total fighting points; the life you pay can be spent to destroy face-up played fighting cards (1 life for a starting/knowledge card, 2 for an aging card), which are then removed from the game (pp.5–6).

Draw the remaining cards, then take the top face-down aging card, shuffle it into your fighting cards (do not look at it), place them as the new Robinson stack and draw the missing cards; only shuffle the discard pile when you actually need to draw another card (p.7).

A pirate card normally shows its hazard value and number of free cards, but some pirates use special calculations—examples include summing red hazard points and white-box free-card values from remaining hazard discard cards, adding +2 hazard points for each aging card shuffled into your Robinson stack, or other modifiers described on the pirate rules (pp.12–13).