This is a cooperative card game for 2 players.
Each player is dealt 3 cards face-down (These are your “Destiny Cards”), these cards are kept secret. The only hint that you can give as to what these cards are, is by the choices you make in cards you play. ie. there is to be no discussion about this during the game. Each player places these cards off to their side, and keeps them hidden during the game. Each player may inspect their own Destiny Cards.
These cards represent your ambitions, your desires, and path to happiness. Diamonds are Wealth, Clubs are Fun, Hearts are Love, Spades are Career.
Each player is dealt a hand of 7 cards.
One player will play one card to the middle face up, and one card of the same suit face-up to their south of that card.
The other player plays a card of any suit face-up to their south of the middle card.
The card in the middle represents a discussion, the cards played represent the level of interest, encouragement, or agreement on that topic.
Whoever played the highest card (not counting the middle card) matching the suit of the middle card, takes the middle card, and places it face-down into their “Love Pile”, a pile of cards formed on each players side. Players can only inspect their own “Love Piles”
The Winner also takes the ‘Losing’ card, and placse it into their hand.
These “Love Piles” will come to represent compatibility, support, shared interests, in the pursuit of love.
Reminder: Players are not allowed to discuss what cards they want, which hand they want to win etc. This must only be communicated in the way you play your cards.
Both players now draw cards to have 7 in their hand, and the other player will now move first (placing a face-up card into the middle etc.).
If a turn is ended, and both players have the same number of cards in their Love Piles – an “Event” occurs.
With an Event, instead of a player placing a card, a card is taken from the top of the draw pile and placed into the middle face up. (Note: If a King, Queen, or Jack is drawn, it is always placed immediately to the bottom of the Draw Pile, and another card drawn.)
Players place their cards (both of the same suit as the middle card) face down, and then reveal at the same time to see who wins the card for their Love Pile.
Note: During an Event, players may also play cards from their Love Pile, instead of their hand.
An Event represents a situation that the couple must support each other through. Drawing card from your Love Pile is not always a sacrifice, but usually shows a moment of understanding.
After the Event, play continues as normal with the “loser” of the event going first.
Play continues until someone is unable to place down two cards of the same suit on their turn.
All remaining cards in hand are placed into the discard pile.
Each player picks up their Love Pile, and holds them secretly in their hand.
At this point both players must agree on who will go first for the “End Game”. If their is any disagreement, the game is lost.
Once you know who is going first, that player (Player 1) will flip over one of their Destiny Cards – their choice.
Player 2 then places a card of the same suit on top. If they cannot, or choose not to place a card, then that destiny is unfulfilled, and discarded into the discard pile.
If Player 2 was able to place a card, then the Player 1 also places a card of the same suit on top and yhat Destiny will be fulfilled, Leave these cards on the table. If Player 1 cannot, or chooses not to place a card, then that destiny is unfulfilled, and it is discarded (along with Players 2’s card) into the discard pile.
Play now moves to the next player to reveal one of their Destiny Cards, and the End Game process above is repeated, until all Destiny Cards are revealed.
If each player has at least 2 Fulfilled Destiny Piles each, you have found True Love and you both win the game.