About Sleeping Dragon
Sleeping Dragon is a quick, exciting card game for 2–6 players. Deep inside a cave, a grumpy, sooty dragon sleeps on a pile of treasure. Taking turns, you sneak in and take a card from the pile. But somewhere in the pile lies the card “The Dragon Wakes!”. Draw it, and the dragon puffs soot at you and you’re out – unless you can sing it back to sleep with a Lullaby. Then you hide the dragon back in the pile yourself, wherever you like, and nobody else knows where.
Along the way, you use clever cards to dodge the dragon: Tiptoe Past, Pass the Dragon, Crystal Ball, which shows the top cards, Earthquake, which shuffles the pile, and Gimme a Gift. And when someone plays a card, everyone else can shout No Way! and stop it. Collect treasures too: a pair gets you a random card from another player, and three of a kind lets you ask for exactly the card you need.
Play with one iPad that gets passed around with a cover screen, so nobody sees anyone else’s cards. Or put the cave on the TV and let every player hold their cards on their phone, with a big No Way! button and a secret slider for hiding the dragon. A game takes about 15 minutes, and it’s easy to learn for everyone aged seven and up.
How to play
- Choose one iPad or TV and phones, and type in the names. Everyone gets 7 cards and a Lullaby. The dragons are shuffled into the pile.
- On your turn, play as many cards as you like, or none. Then finish by drawing one card from the cave.
- When someone plays a card, the others have a few seconds to stop it with a No Way! A No Way! can itself be stopped by another No Way!
- If you draw “The Dragon Wakes!”, you must play a Lullaby and hide the dragon in the pile again. No Lullaby? Then you’re out.
- The last player who hasn’t woken the dragon wins.