Watch “Learn How to Play Love Letter In Less Than 2 Minutes,” a how-to-play guide for Love Letter from Clever Move on BoardGameVideo.
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This video gives a quick overview for the rules of Love Letter.
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Love Letter is quick-playing card game of bluffing and deduction for two to four players. Each player attempts to deliver his or her love letters to the princess to earn tokens of her affection. A game takes about 20 minutes.
To start, shuffle the 16-card deck and blindly remove one card from play. Then, deal one card to each player.
During each player's turn, the active player draws one card from the top of the deck and then plays or discards one of the two cards now in her hand.
Each card has a different effect. The priest allows the player to look at another player's hand. The king swaps hands with another player, and the prince forces a player to discard their card and draw a new one.
Several other cards give players a chance to eliminate each other from the round. Guards, for example, allow the active player to eliminate another if she correctly guesses what card the targeted player holds. The Baron allows two players to compare hands, and the player with the lower-numbered card is eliminated.
When a player is eliminated, she discards her remaining card face-up.
The round ends when the deck is empty at the end of a player's turn, or when all but one player has been eliminated.
If only one player remains, he or she earns a token of the princess' affection.
If more than one player remains when the deck runs out, each player reveals the card in her hand. Whoever holds the highest card earns the token. In the rare case of a tie, the player who discarded cards with the highest total value wins the round.
The next round begins the same way. One player will shuffle the deck, remove one card and deal one to each player.
Whichever player won the token in the previous round now plays first.
The game continues this way until one player collects a number of tokens determined by the number of players in the game.
The first player to reach that number, wins.