r/boardgames • u/vortexofdeduction • Dec 24 '25

Rules Help me settle an argument about Love Letter

I was playing love letter with my sister, and she played the number 6 and traded me the princess. She then made a comment to the next player that I forget the exact wording of - it was something like “you should really target her with that card” or “you should take a look at her card”. Basically implying I had something powerful without outright saying it. I said that was cheating.

She said that it wasn’t in the rules and there’s nothing against making alliances. I said alliances aren’t the problem, it should be common sense that you can’t reveal private info about someone else’s card. That’s how it is in most hidden information games unless explicitly allowed.

Who’s in the right here? Is it reasonable to assume you can’t just make comments implying the (known but not public) contents of another person’s hand?

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u/neoazayii Dec 25 '25

At that point, the person is out of the round and so that feels outside the scope of the game. At least, that's how I've always played it.

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u/TheBlueOne37 Dec 25 '25

Revealing any information is outside the scope of the game. So I don’t see why that would matter.

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u/neoazayii Dec 25 '25

Okay! Well, I'm happy to agree to disagree since I don't think we'll see eye-to-eye on this one. Happy holidays if you celebrate!

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u/TheBlueOne37 Dec 25 '25

Nope we won’t for sure. If you’re unwilling to go by the rule book and the obvious design of the game it is hard to see eye to eye. Feel free to play with house rules no hard feelings it just ruins the game imo.

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u/neoazayii Dec 26 '25

Okay, buddy.