Oh my, napping nobles!
This royally rousing card game is now in a deluxe 10th anniversary edition! Sleeping Queens is back with all your favourite queens plus, the addition of the Strawberry Queen.
Rise and Shine! The Pancake Queen, the Ladybug Queen and ten of their closest friends have fallen asleep under a sleeping spell and it’s your job to wake them up.
In this new version of Sleeping Queens, is affectionately dubbed the Strawberry Queen edition. Comes in a keepsake tin and features a brand new queen, her royal strawberryness – she can’t be stolen or put back to sleep.
On your turn, take one the following actions and then draw a card.
- Play a King to awaken a Sleeping Queen from the playing area.
- Play a Knight to steal any one of your opponents’ awakened queens.
- Dragons: Your opponent can stop your knight by immediately playing a Dragon card from their hand.
- Play a Sleeping Potion card to put any one of your opponents’ awakened queens back to sleep.
- Wands: Your opponent can defend against a sleeping potion by immediately playing a Wand card from their hand.
- Play a Jester card and take a chance!
Discard one or more cards to draw new cards. There are three different ways you can do this:
- Discard a single card of any kind and draw one card.
- Discard pair of identical number cards and draw two cards.
- Discard three or more number cards that make an addition equation and draw three or more cards
The first player to collect 5 queens or 50 points worth of queens in a 2-3 player game, or 4 queens or 40 points worth of queens in a 4-5 player game wins.
2-5 PLAYERS | 20 MINS | AGES 8+
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Shipping
All online orders are picked from our separate warehouse. We always ensure that your games are well packed before leaving. Wherever possible we'll re-use a cardboard box that we received games in from one of our suppliers. We figure it's better that way for our planet. But we do also use new boxes and wraps. If you have a strong preference either way please let us know in your Order Comments.
UK Orders
We aim for orders placed before 1:30pm Monday to Friday to be dispatched on the same working day. If this is not possible, your order will be dispatched on the next working day. Orders placed outside our Monday to Friday office hours will be dispatched on the next working day.
Delivery is free on all orders of £65 or more. Orders with a value of less than £65 will incur a delivery charge as follows:
£4.50 - Royal Mail Tracked 48 (2-3 business days delivery time)
£6.00 - Royal Mail Tracked 24 (1-2 business days delivery time)
£5.50 - DHL (next business day delivery, mainland UK only)
International Delivery
If you are from further afield please contact us to discuss.
Collect in Store
At check-out you will to have the option to collect your order from our cafés in either Oxford or Bath and avoid the shipping charge. We will notify you by email as soon as your order is ready to collect. Allow up to 3 days for Oxford collection orders and 7 days for Bath collection orders. Orders will be held for a maximum of 21 days before being returned to our warehouse.
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