Reigns helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Planning: Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

In order to have the longest reign possible for each of your kings, the player needs to use their planning skills effectively. Each decision made by the player will have an effect on the levels of satisfaction or dissatisfaction that the people have with your job. Players need to look at these levels and make decisions that will allow them to remain in power, even if it is not the decision they might have wanted to make. 

Players also need to use planning when they are trying to complete the objectives that were set out for them at the beginning of the king’s reign. If one of your objectives is to have an heir, you need to plan to make decisions that will lead you to marrying a queen and having a child. Or if you need to reign for 60 years, you need to make sure that you are making decisions that will set you up for a much longer ruling period. 

Focus: Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Players need to use their focus skills and pay attention to the events in each round of play with each king. Some of the events that take place will travel from king to king, meaning that they will have an effect on the different storylines even after that king is dead. Players also need to be able to use their focus when reading. Reigns is a text-based game with no intelligible voice acting so the player needs to be able to read and understand the information on screen in order to make good in-game decisions.