Love Letter

A couple days ago I was introduced to an amazing game called Love Letter.  Before playing it, If you told me that a game consisting of only 16 cards could be any good I would have said your are crazy, but this is a really, really fun game. The entire premise is you are trying to get a love letter to the Princess by passing it through various members of the royal court.

Gameplay

Each player starts with 1 card representing a member of the court. On your turn you draw a card from the deck and then play one of your two cards. Each card has a special ability. When you play the card it triggers the ability. For example the Guard reads, "Target a player an name a non-guard card. If the target player has that card he is out for the round.  Each card also has a rank from 1 to 8. A round ends when there are no more cards in the deck to draw, or there is only one player left.  The winner of the round is whoever has the highest rank card or the last remaining player. The game plays for 4, 5, or 7 rounds depending on the number players.

Components

The game consists of 16 high quality playing cards with beautiful Renaissance style art, 4 reference cards, 13 affection tokens, and a rule sheet.

There are a few special editions of the game;

The Tempest Edition comes in a red velvet bag

The Kanei Factory Edition replaces the card art with Japanese style art by Noboru Sugiura, and 2 promo cards.

The Wedding Edition comes in a white and silver bag, and contains 2 promo cards

The L5R Edition comes with card art based on the Legends of the Five Rings roleplaying game, and an L5R collectors bag.

The Details

Designed by Senji Kanai

Published by AEG

2-4 players

Ages 10+

Playing time 20 minutes

MSRP - All editions $9.95