Gamewright | Sleeping Queens Game | Card Game | Ages 8+ | 2-5 Players | 20 Minutes Playing Time

5 year old twins had this for Christmas and love it. Seems a little complicated when first reading the rules but quickly made sense. They can now happily play it together and I love the fact that they’re not on screens and they’re practicing maths without even realising it. Great little game.

I play this with my 3 year old (soon to be 4). We picked the rules up straight away with the help of an online video and started to play the game face up. Now, 1 month on and we have a little hands card holder and she plays the cards held up.I love this game as we can make a story out of them as we play.

My children played this game a lot when they were of primary school-age. - It's engaging and the artwork is pleasant. There's an element of luck, strategy, and a bit of skill. - And some very simple maths to count scores to find the winner. A nice game for parents to play with their kids, and a game isn't over long or complicated.

My grandchildren taught me to play. They had a great grasp of the rules, even the 6 year old. My memory was not as great. But it was a fun game and I bought it to.play with my other grandchildren.

Firm family favourite, kids (8 and 5) ask to play every day. Easy to learn and quick to play.

This is our favourite game to play as a family. We have gifted it to a couple of friends and would highly recommend it. It has racked up more playtime than any of our other games and often we will play two or three rounds back to back. One game can be about 10-20 minutes.When we first got it we had to play through a couple of times but once it clicked it’s a very easy concept to pick up. It’s been great for teaching about sportsmanship - there’s no point losing your mind if a play goes against you as you might be able to pull it back round later, and you can’t be too hurt by an aggressive play as that’s the whole point of the game. It’s difficult to overstate what a positive impact that has had - turning ‘attacking’ moves into silly, funny moments has eased a lot of tension between my 5 & 7yo and that’s a great thing to learn in board games.My highly motivated, game-loving 5yo picked it up quite easily but it took my less motivated older child a few more goes to get it - thankfully the artwork and characters pulled her in. Even Granny cottoned on after a few plays!Really recommend this game, it’s a lot of fun.

This is a fab game for a 5 year old or 6 year old where you want a mixture of luck (so that the adult doesn't always win!) with some decisions to make. I wouldn't recommend it for the 8+ age range suggested though. It also works much better as a 3 player game than as a 2 player game - most of the decisions are about who to target, so having some choice helps!At the start of the game there are lots of queen cards laid face down in the middle. Each player has five cards in their hand. You take it in turns, play one card each turn and replenish to five cards at the end of your turn. You can use a King card to wake up a queen and put it in front of you and the objective is to be the first player to get five queens in front of you (or 50 points - each queen has a points value). There are other cards that steal queens from other players, put queens back to sleep, stop other players who are playing those cards etc. As well as these special cards, there are number cards which don't do anything, and you can switch these for other cards instead of playing a special card - either singly, as a pair of the same number or as three which make a sum. The fact that the number cards don't actually do anything feels slightly unsatisfactory from a game design perspective but doesn't detract from the game too much in practice.I actually quite enjoy playing it, which is quite an important criteria for games for that age - a lot of games for 5 or 6 year olds are just really dull to play. The pictures on the cards are lovely too. It's definitely not an interesting enough game for older kids or adults though.

‘Sleeping Queens’ – oh my God! This is SUCH an addictive game – I’m already hooked!!I don’t know why, I knew nothing about this Game, its Inventor or anything, but, I’ve been purchasing a great number of Card Games recently, and I saw this, and loved the artwork and just had great ‘vibes’ about it! Not often anything like that happens without even a slight disappointment as things are seldom as you expect, but this... I cannot fault the Game! I just want to keep playing, playing and playing - win or lose! I kept my partner from going to bed the day we got it because I wanted to keep playing, yet I hadn’t won a single game at that point!The mechanics of this Game are simple – yet have enough depth to them to both make it interesting to play, and to make it tactical as well as just ‘luck’! The theme is delightful, and the quality of the artwork and Cards is brilliant!This is one Game in my collection (almost 800 now) that I shall CERTAINLY be wearing out! (I can see myself purchasing another coy in readiness!)There’s got to be something wrong where anyone could not give this five stars - and it has NOTHING to do with the fact it was devised by a child; I didn’t even know that when we first saw and wanted it!Every game is different!FABULOUS and now one of my all-time favourites! :-)