These were by far the worst instructions I have ever used, there are steps that they have you skip that make no sense until you get to the the end.  Do not work ahead, and follow the steps implicitly.  There was one hole that was not drilled in the correct place so we had to create one in the swing pole.  Getting the pieces to line up was by far the most frustrating.  We spent over an hour just trying to get the basketball hoop on before finally just tossing it because the holes just wouldn't align.  My daughter loves it, but had I known what a pain it was to assemble I would have gone with another product.