play a pair of matching numbered cards and draw two cards.play a single card of any kind and draw a card.In your turn you may do one of the following: To begin, the player to the left of the dealer goes first. Each player is dealt five cards to start the game. You shuffle the game cards and place them in the centre of the queens. You shuffle the 12 queens and then place them face down with 6 cards on each side of the draw pile. In practice because my children love collecting the queens so much, we ignore the points target and just play until we have collected all the sleeping queens. According to the game rules it is first to 5 queens or first to 50 points in a game with 2 to 3 players or first to collect 4 queens or get 40 points in a 4 to 5 player game.
The object of the game is very simple, to awaken the Sleeping Queens and earn a certain number of points to win the game. Overview: Sleeping Queens is simple but so much fun Sleeping Queens initial set up.