Customer Reviews

Bohnanza Fan Edition

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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.

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.