Wands – Your opponent can defend their queen by immediately playing a want card. This could come in handy next time you go to awaken a queen. *Tip* Pay attention to the queen’s value and where she is placed. Play a Sleeping Potion – Put an opponents queen back to sleep! This does not count as a turn for the dragon card player. Discard both the knight and the dragon and each player picks up a new card. Play A Knight – Place the knight face up on the discard pile and choose a queen to steal from another player.ĭragons – Your opponent can defend their queen by immediately playing a dragon card. The number card is then discarded and play continues to the left. The last player counted gets to awaken a queen and keep it. If it is a number card, starting with you, count around the table equal to the number on the card. If it is a power card, add the card to your hand and take another turn. Play A Jester – Place the jester face up on the discard pile.

Pick up any sleeping queen and place her face up in front of you. Play A King – Put your king face up on the discard pile. On your turn you can do one of the following: It’s really wonderful watching her learn as we play. We just pretend we don’t see them! As for my 6 year old, her math skills have come so far since we bought Sleeping Queens.

Of course, this means we can see what cards he has but it’s still a lot of fun for us all. Our 3 year old can’t form mathematical sentences on his own yet so he plays with his cards showing. We play as a family with our 6 and 3 year old. Math – counting, addition, forming mathematical sentences (option to change rules to allow subtraction, sequencing and equivalent equations.).Sleeping Queens is a huge favorite in our house! The main objective of Sleeping Queens is to wake up as many queens as you can and steal or sleep the other player’s queens.Ĥ FREE printable Sleeping Queens themed worksheets at the bottom of this page! So you can imagine our excitement when we found a card game in that genre that both the kids and adults enjoy. We love to play pretend, especially as knights with swords, potions and dragons.

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