Thanks for playing our game, and I appreciate the rating! Yeah...sorry it was confusing. This game was inspired by the mechanics of the card game "Colt Express", and it's just hard to design it in a way that is intuitive. So we definitely should have spent a bit more time making a tutorial in hindsight.
We actually named the game probably an hour before submitting, so I don't believe carrotalism even came up somehow, but I guess great minds think alike!