Love Letter - Board Game Review

A Board Game Review

Love Letter by Alderac Entertainment Group

Players - 2 to 4 (best with 3 and 4 players)
Playtime - 20 to 30 minutes
Type - Deduction

This is literally the game.
(not pictured. The cool velvet Love Letter game bag)

An extremely portable game powered by 16 cards, yes, 16 cards are what's in this game along with 13 wooden cubes for counters, rule book and reference cards.  The idea of the game is that you are candidate to sweep the princess off of her feet via a letter, a love letter if you will.  To do this you will pass your letter onto the people around her so that they will pass it onto the princess.  You are not the only one so you must strategize and deduce your way on getting your letter to her first.

It's a simple game of 'Pickup one card and play one card' so you will always have a card in your hand.  When you play a card you will follow the rules assigned to that card, for instance if you played a Priest that will enable you to look at one players hand.  However, this can also happen to you and ruin any strategy you may have had.  Once the draw pile has dwindled down to nothing, players will reveal the card in there hand, the player with the highest ranked card wins as this particular person was closest to the princess.  In case of a tie, players discarded cards are counted up and the highest value wins the round.

A very simple game that really shines when 4 players are vying for the princesses heart and that will stop at nothing to get their letter to her. It is a good, solid, filler game that would appeal to most (the theme may put some people off) and could possibly be the gateway game to get your girlfriend into board gaming (fingers crossed hey?)  But I found it really enjoyable due to it's quick play, portability and how fast the rules can be picked up by gamers and non board gamers alike.

I picked up my copy at the The Wicked Goblin for a sum of $16.00

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