Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5310 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Rio Grande Games
• Model: 4098398
• Dimensions: 3.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .63 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
This great card game is about planting, trading, and selling beans - 11 kinds of beans (this English version includes all the cards from the original game and the first expansion). Players try to collect large sets of beans to sell for gold. There is limited growing space and always new beans to plant. To avoid planting unwanted beans, players trade them to other players who want them for their bean fields.

Customer Reviews

Beans, Beans, the Magical fruit....
Now here's a weird little game. It's German in origina for one thing, where games are really for the whole family and this is no exception.

Bohnanza provides with a single sheet of rules and a big stack of top quality cards, most of which have cartoony pictures of Beans on the front, and a gold coin on the back. The handful of other cards in there are fields, which you can use to grow more beans on.

The idea of play is as follows. the players are bean farmers, looking to plant fields of beans and sell those beans to make money. Dead simple eh? Well, yes and no.

Each farmer has two fields, and in each field you only get to plant one type of bean at a time. You play cards from your hand into the fields in the order they are dealt, so you can't always maximise your profits.

You get round this by trading cards in your hands for bean cards from other players. Once you have the beans, they go into your field. You can 'harvest' (remove) the beans from a field at any time for the value they are worth (The more beans of a single type, the more they're worth).

Of course, if all beans were equal, it would be dull. Therefore, some beans are worth more than others, but these are rarer and often harder to make full sets of.

It might sound a little weird but after a once round the table people tend to settle into this game and after a second round the spirit of trading and profit-mongering takes hold.

This is a top game which I can't recommend enough. As easy to get to grips with as Uno, as much card swapping as Pit and as expandable as any game you've likely ever played (There are a lot of add on packs available) Bohnanza is a family gem which will also cater to beer N pizza playing.

Bohnanza
i absolutely adore this game. It may sound a bit cheesy and naff to begin with, i thought it would be stupid, but it's sooooooo fun. It is a bit expensive, but i think it's worth it.

exciting and clever
We've recently bought this game and the whole family love it and can't stop playing it. It's so clever. Takes a few minutes to get your head around the rules but then it's easy, yet interesting. We can't believe a game played just with cards can be so good, but you have to use strategy and cunning in deciding what to trade and when to harvest, with a bit of luck too from the cards you pick up. Although it states 12+ my sons are 8 and 10 and both play with no problem, though they are keen and 'experienced' games players. In fact I can't beat them yet! We love this sort of game that the whole family, kids and adults can play on equal terms, but which has skill and not just luck to it. Our other favourite is Carcassone, but Bohnanza is great for the summer as it's just a big pack of cards, so very portable for playing outside and on trips. Although it seems expensive for a card game it is well worth it for the concept behind it nad the fun value.