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Sleeping Queens

not for sleepyheads!

Twelve queens are sleeping; you need to wake them up and collect them for points. The game features 12 queens, 27 special cards – Knight, Jester, Sleeping Draught, Dragon and Spell - and 40 number cards. The twelve queens are laid out on the table, face down, the other cards are shuffled. You deal five cards to each player; the rest is draw pile:

In your turn, you play one or more cards and draw the same number of played:

1. A King – you take a sleeping queen open-faced = awake for points.

2. A Jester – you turn up the top card from the pile; if it is aa special card, you take it and have another turn; for a number card, you count around the table from player to player; the final player takes a sleeping queen and wakes her up.

3. One single card or a pair of cards or three cards that make up an equation, e.g. 3+4=7.

4. A Knight – you steal an awake queen from another player.

5. A Sleeping Draught on an awake queen, she goes to sleep again and is put back in the middle, face-down.

You defend a queen against Knight and Sleeping Draught with a Dragon or a Spell. If you wake up the Rose Queen, you may wake up one more queen. Cat and Poodle Queen do not see eye to eye, you cannot own both. If you own 4/5 Queens or 40/50 points, you win. When all queens are awake at the same time, the game ends, too, and in this case, you win with most points.

An enchanting game for children, but also for all the family – chance-driven, but not too much – the to and fro of the queens, defending with dragons and all other moves are fun and very often result in a “let’s play again” reaction. Adults have also been spotted pinching queens happily.

Players: 2-5

Age: 7+

Time: 15+

Designer: Miranda Evarts & Family

Artist: Jimmy Pickering

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Game Factory 2016

Web: www.gamefactory-spiele.com

Genre: Cards, collecting, stealing

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it + cn nl pl pt

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute topic

Simple rules

Lots of chance, a bit of tactic

Compares to:

Collecting game with stealing from other players

Other editions:

Gamewright (en), White Goblin (nl), Oliphante (it), Rebel.pl (pl), Cocktail (fr), Kanga Games (cn) and others

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0