There are so many ways to play History Heroes card games and we love the fact that our customers regularly report back to us with new ones that they have devised themselves.
We’ve created a mini quiz below to give you a feel of how to play History Heroes, too. Test your knowledge of Britain’s Kings and Queens with our short quickfire quiz.
I was a ‘Great’ King of Wessex, who stopped invading Vikings. I may have burnt some cakes along the way!
Correct! Wrong!
I was crowned King of England on Christmas Day, 1066 at Westminster Abbey, having won the Battle of Hastings
Correct! Wrong!
I was the last Norman King of England. I am also the only King of England and the Union with my name…so far!
Correct! Wrong!
I claimed my rebellious barons forced me to sign the Magna Carta, which took away any English monarch’s right to Absolute Power – drat!
Correct! Wrong!
I was seen as a weak king but my reign lasted 56 years. I kept an elephant at the Tower of London and a polar bear, who fished in the Thames – so I had my cool side!
Correct! Wrong!
I defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt. I lost 400 of my 6,000 men. The French lost 5,000 of their 30,000 men
Correct! Wrong!
I broke with Rome and made myself head of the Church of England. I spent heavily on wars and built up the English navy…and I wasn’t necessarily the greatest husband to have
Correct! Wrong!
I became Queen of England in 1558 when I was 25 years old. I never married. I said my country was my priority
Sir Walter Raleigh named Virginia in North America after me, ‘the Virgin Queen’
I was the first Stuart King of England. Guy Fawkes tried to blow me up in the Houses of Parliament in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
Correct! Wrong!
My rule of England, Scotland and Ireland was called the Interregnum – ‘between reigns’ – I was called Lord Protector: kind of a king and yet soooo not a king
Correct! Wrong!
The first Hanoverian King to be born in England, I became the first King of the United Kingdom…but lost our American colonies in the American War of Independence
Correct! Wrong!
I was the first reigning monarch to travel by train
I married my first cousin, Albert, in 1840. As Head of State I had to propose to him.
The aim of the game is to try and win the cards by guessing who the characters are from the facts read out from the cards. Players can play the games as a gentle voyage of discovery or a competitive game by choosing easy, hard or quirky facts from each card. Win the cards by guessing correctly who the character is from the facts read out on their cards. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game, just the same as card games like Top Trumps.
Or, if you fancy, you can start by reading, enjoying and absorbing the facts in the History Heroes games – it doesn’t have to be a battle of wits from the get-go!
Getting Started
You can share out all the cards and try to win them from each other by taking it in turns to read out the facts from any of your cards
Or, you can have one master card reader, who reads out the facts for everyone else to guess and win. This way of playing works particularly well if you have a younger child who can read but may not know many facts…to start with. They love being in control of the game; they absorb the information (without realising!) as they read out the facts and they LOVE seeing the adults squirm when they don’t know who the character is – a great, non-pressurised way of introducing them to a lot of cracking, new knowledge
Top Tips
If you have an equal, knowledgeable (and competitive!) group playing, try reading the facts from the bottom of the card upwards, from joker fact and hardest to easiest: the first person to guess correctly, who the character is, wins the card
If you’re all learning to begin with, make it easy and fun for all of you: use the images as clues; read the joker fact to entertain and then read the green facts for clues too
If you have a mixed ability group, let those with knowledge guess from the hardest, red facts. Less knowledgeable players can guess from the image as a clue and the green facts
Scoring Points: Give the different coloured facts different points: 1 for green; 2 for yellow; 3 for red; 5 for the Joker fact. Players can decide what level of fact they want to guess from to try to win points or cards
When you’ve been playing the games for a while and think you know your facts, go completely random and introduce a dice: the facts are numbered from 1-6 so whatever number you throw is the fact you get from which to guess the character
More Ways to Play
Use History Heroes cards to play charades or a memory game – there are many, many ways to ‘skin the History Heroes’ cat! If you’ve ever played card games like Top Trumps, you will find History Heroes easy to start and play.
Let us know how you get on – and we’d love to hear any of your new ways to play History Heroes too! Join us on Facebook and tell us your own ways to play!
