Paired playing pieces move on steps along a path of a playing area through sections representing stages in a couple relationship in response to matching couple answers on writing surfaces in response to questions on cards from a beginning step through the stages to a winning step. Two individual pieces of each paired playing piece may be separated with one of the individual pieces placed in the dog house area for a mismatch to a question card bearing a dog house insignia. Timed tasks on get out of the dog house cards when performed successfully enable a player's piece to be removed from the dog house and reconnected with the other couple members playing piece to form the paired playing piece.