I mostly agree, except this is a simple game. It should be simple to play. If folk aren't seeing the text laid out in front of them, there are a couple tricks

I mostly agree, except this is a simple game. It should be simple to play. If folk aren't seeing the text laid out in front of them, there are a couple tricks - demonstrate, make the instructions pictographic/difficult to dismiss. There is a fine line between making your game accessible and providing too much instruction, but I can think of a couple visual cues that probably could have been given. That being said I had no problem reading the intro, on the other hand I will regularly finish those long, long, long 45 minute articles that have "congratulations you made it to the bottom", and I know generally people who are great at reading much, much faster than me have little problem figuring out "techy" things, so I do think in general people just don't read enough.