From Tom Jolly's website:The idea is simple you represent the survivors of one ship that smacked into another at sea. Both sunk. The other player is the survivors of the other ship. Of course, if you have more players, more ships might have been involved in the collision! Anyway, there's this little teeny rock of an island, and only enough space for about 10 people to stand there. The first player to have 7 of his or her own survivors standing on the ISLAND wins!Rules and construction instructions here: http://www.silcom.com/~tomjolly/island.htm - BoardGameGeek