Love Letter print and play: cards and rules

About Love Letter

Love Letter is Seiji Kanai’s microgame of risk, deduction and luck: a deck of only a few numbered characters, a hand of one card, and a race to get your letter into the Princess’s hands. Asmodee’s Print & Play site offers a free Love Letter print and play file with the cards and rules, so you can print and play Love Letter tonight.

It is an ideal print-and-play: few cards, plain rules, and rounds that take a few minutes. It suits players from age 10, and works well for couples and small groups who like bluffing and reading their opponents.

How to play in one minute

1. Shuffle the deck, remove one card face down, and deal one card to each player.
2. On your turn, draw a card so you hold two, then play one face up and do what it says.
3. Card effects let you guess another player’s card, peek at a hand, compare cards, protect yourself or swap hands. A wrong guess or a lost comparison can knock players out of the round.
4. The round ends when only one player is left, or when the deck runs out and the highest card in hand wins.
5. The round winner takes a token. The first player to collect the agreed number of tokens wins.

What’s in the PDF

• One “Cards & Rules” file listed under Games on the Love Letter page: the character cards and the rules. Asmodee does not say which edition of the card list it follows.
• Downloads open after you sign in with a free My asmodee account. We could not open the file, so the page count is not listed here.
• Print in colour on card stock, or put the cards in sleeves with old playing cards behind them so you cannot see through them.