Learning Wingspan

Tonight some friends and I tried and failed to play wingspan. After a quick glimpse at the rules it told us to use the quick start guide pages so we did. This was with three players and I noticed everyone was doing something different and assumed it was so (provided everyone pays attention) we all learn the basic rules of the game through everyone’s turns. Even after those guided turns we were still a little confused on how exactly to play the game and what everything did. Should we have done anything differently? I wouldn’t mind giving it a second chance but my friends were turned off from it.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the comments! I appreciate the suggestions and explanations. Wingspan has been the first game in a long time I’ve gone into blind without proper knowledge of the rules beforehand and I think my friends just didn’t have everything click in their heads. They’ve said they aren’t completely turned off from the idea of trying to play again, but they’d like to play with someone who knows what they’re doing, which will likely be me.