Bohnanza BGG

Designer: Uwe Rosenberg

Published: 1997

Playing time: 45 minutes

Players: 2 to 7

Played: 0 times

As card games go, this one is quite revolutionary. Perhaps its oddest feature is that you cannot rearrange your hand, as you need to play the cards in the order that you draw them. The cards are colorful depictions of beans in various descriptive poses, and the object is to make coins by planting fields (sets) of these beans and then harvesting them. To help players match their cards up, the game features extensive trading and dealmaking. The original German edition supports 3-5 players. The newest English version is from [publisherid=3 Rio Grande Games] and it comes with the [gameid=467 first edition of the first German expansion] included in a slightly oversized box. One difference in the contents, however, is that bean 22's ''Weinbrandbohne'' (Brandy Bean) was replaced by the ''Wachsbohne'', or Wax Bean. This edition includes rules for up to seven players, like the ''[gameid=467 Erweiterungs-Set]'', but also adapts the two-player rules of ''[gameid=980 Al Cabohne]'' in order to allow two people to play ''Bohnanza''. '''Note:''' The Rio Grande Games edition supports more players than the Amigo release, and also sports two-player rules. You should keep that in mind when perusing the ratings. '''''Bohnanza''''' is the first in the [[Bohnanza series|Bohnanza family]] of games and has been published in [[Bohnanza editions|several different editions]].