Sleeping Queens 10th Anniversary Tin Card Game

SO good. Surprisingly good. We bought it on the recommendation of others who enjoyed Rat-A-Tat-Cat (which our family loves). I want to say that surprisingly, even our 5 year old can totally play this game. We made one modification: when all she can play is her numbers cards, she shows them to the table and we help her see what she can play. Otherwise, on the other action cards, shes not only good to go but has won more games than anyone else! Fun family game that travels well. Id give it 6 stars if I could. (By the way, if youre wondering whether to buy this version in the anniversary tin or go with the cheaper version, Id suggest the tin. There are more queens in the deck and some of them are special.)

Amazing game!

It’s nice to have a game that is easy enough for younger kids to play without being completely tortuous for older siblings and adults (looking at you candy land and chutes and ladders). The four year old picked up the actions and counter actions for the special cards as well as the few queens who have different attributes easily. It doesn’t really hurt the game if you have to help younger ones do the addition to discard number cards either. She usually just keeps her number cards from her hand face up on the table so we can help with the math when she’s chooses to discard those instead of playing any special cards in her hand. She’s able to play independently enough that we can all carry on a conversation while playing like in a normal card game. The cards are colorful and decent quality (slippery when new like most playing cards) and the kings and queens are each unique and interesting enough to keep kids wanting to play through the game. The game moves along quickly and you can also adjust the win conditions to suit your family and time available. We usually opt to play one longer game by having it end when all the queens have been awakened and whoever has the most queens wins. The instructions also have other suggestions such as stopping when someone has woken up 5 queens or adding up the point values printed on the queen cards with winner being whoever gets to 50 points first, etc. Since there is some light adding involved it’s a good game to help kids keep practicing those number skills without the whole game being focused around the math. You can choose to have the adding be more or less strenuous to suit the various ages without being too boring for older people.

LOve this game! Easy for kids to understand. Our family plays this regularly. Great game to help kids start thinking about strategic thinking and fast enough to keep their attention.

I teach kindergarten, and this game is not only beautiful, and also teaches math equations, and good sportsmanship/friendship playing together and artistic possibilities!

It is such a fun family game and so cool

My family has played this game for years and we still have fun playing it!

Great game, my kids love it. I had to order it after they played it at their Aunties house and loved the twists!

My grandkids love playing this game. It’s fun.

Bought as a Christmas present, this game has proven the test of time. My daughter brings it when visiting family and friends, and never tires of playing this!