愛のてんびん (Love Balance)

愛のてんびん (Aino tenbin) (Love balance) is a party game from Japan.

The deck has a variety of confessions of love, such as gifts, flowers, chocolates, a ring and so on. Players try to shed their hand down to zero first, by playing a card to match another player's.

The lead player offers a card, such as a ring, to another player. If they have the same card in hand, they discard it too. If they do not have the matching card, they say they acknowledge the feelings but cannot reciprocate, so they accept the gift card into their hand. The giver is now heart-broken and draws another card from the deck as solace.

Players can block a romance by playing other cards from their hand, such as "I'm sorry", or "wait a minute!" to steal a gift, or "I'm watching you" to block a confessor.

The first player to empty their hand wins. user summary