Bohnanza Fan Edition

by Rio Grande Games

Product Features

• For 3 to 5 players
• Play time of 45 minutes
• Bean trader theme
• It is a card game
• Fan art portrayed on the card set

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 0.9 x 4.9 inches ; 7.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0011950PY
• Item model number: 349RGG
• Manufacturer recommended age: 12 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,035 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Each player plants beans in 2 or 3 fields and tries to sell them as profitably as possible. When selling beans, a player earns more gold for more beans of the same variety. The goal of the game is it to earn the most gold planting, harvesting, and selling beans. Without careful planning, players may be forced to harvest and sell their beans before they are ready and at lower prices than they hoped. In fact, sometimes a harvest brings no gold at all. The difference in this version from the original is that all the bean pictures are different and were supplied by fans of the game from around the world.

Product Description

Each player plants beans in 2 or 3 fields and tries to sell them as profitably as possible. When selling beans, a player earns more gold for more beans of the same variety. The goal of the game is it to earn the most gold planting, harvesting, and selling beans. Without careful planning, players may be forced to harvest and sell their beans before they are ready and at lower prices than they hoped. In fact, sometimes a harvest brings no gold at difference in this version from the original is that all the bean pictures are different and were supplied by fans of the game from around the world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More fun looking than the original game, but more confusing!, July 16, 2009

By 

lemonzest "Jenn" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bohnanza Fan Edition (Toy)

I've gotten so used to playing with friends' copies of the original Bohnanza game that when I saw this one, with all of the card art replaced with fan-submitted bean portraits, I jumped at the chance to get a copy of my own. This set is really colorful and fun (albeit some of the bean art is really, really bizarre and occasionally gross), but I have two complaints - one, the names of the beans aren't written anywhere on the card, there's just a tiny portrait in one top corner to help figure out which cards go with which suites. This is fine for players who are very familiar with the game and know the bean varieties by heart, but not so great for using with new players. Second, the total number of each kind of bean has been omitted from the cards as well, which makes it much harder to figure out if the beans you're using are rare or common. I ended up correcting both problems with a black marker, but I wasn't happy that I had to write on the cards to make them usable.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars game seems fun, edition not so much, November 5, 2010

By 

dkr - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Bohnanza Fan Edition (Toy)

It seems like a fun game, but we didn't really enjoy it because it's the fan edition. the problem with that is that the way the game works is to match up certain types of beans, but unlike other editions I've seen, all the pictures on every card are different, so the beans of the same type look really different and it gets hard to figure out if they're the same at a glance.