
1997 · Card Game
Bohnanza
Players cultivate a hand of different bean cards, plant them in personal fields and harvest to turn sets of beans into coins. Hands keep card order, so players must plant the first one or two cards on their turn, manage limited field slots that hold only a single bean type, and sometimes harvest to make room. After planting, the active player reveals extra cards and may trade revealed or hand cards with others, including making promises for future exchanges. Harvested beans score coins according to each bean’s payout chart; the deck is reshuffled into play multiple times and the player with the most coins at the end wins.
- Players
- 3–7 best 5
- Playing time
- 45 min
- Age
- 12+
- Complexity
- 1.7 / 5
About the game
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Expansions
See them in Ludoya
Bohnanza Erweiterungs-Set (Revised Edition)2001
Bohnanza: La Isla Bohnitâ1998
Bohnaparte2004
Bohnanza Erweiterungs-Set1997
High Bohn Plus2004
High Bohn2000
Bohnanza: Princes & Pirates2015
Bohnröschen2007
Bohna Nostra2019
High Bohn: Bohnenduell um 12 Uhr mittags2001
Bohnanza: Bohnaparte & High Bohn2015
Bohnanza: Spiderbeans2007
Ladybohn2002
Fasolki: Rozszerzenie2010
Brettspiel Adventskalender 20152015
Bohnanza: Bean Market2015
Telebohn2004
Bohnedikt2016
Mutabohn2001
Marco Bohno2018
Dschingis Bohn2003
Auf der schwäb'schen Eisenbohn2008
Bohnedikt2009
Bohn Camillo2011
Bohnanza: Das Fanbuch2007
Bohnanza: Amigo Bohnentaler2004
Bohnaparte: Liberté! Egalité! Bohnité!2004
Bohnanza: Die Jokerbohnen2016Where to buy it
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Full stats in Ludoya- 858
- Plays logged
- 808
- Players
- 49m 6s
- Average play
- 283
- In collections
- 20
- On wishlists
- 1
- Pre-ordered
7.0/10
from 135 Ludoya reviews
By player count
Mestremuten6.0 Rating: 3/5 Production value: 2/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 1/1
Played it 5 times
Tomol9.0 The best light card game I know. People who play once, people who fall in love with it.
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Rules questions
Answered from the rulebook by Ludoya's rules assistant.
Can I reorder my hand or sort my cards between turns?
No — you may never change the order of the cards in your hand; the first card dealt is the first card in your hand and must remain visible at the front (page 2).
Do I have to plant the first card in my hand every turn?
Yes — in Phase 1 you must plant the first (visible) card from your hand, and you may optionally plant the new first card that becomes visible, but you cannot plant a third card then (page 3).
Who is allowed to trade, and can we use any cards from our hands in trades?
Only the active player may conduct trades with the other players (others may not trade among themselves); everyone may offer cards from their hands regardless of where they sit in the hand, and the active player may also use the two turned-over cards — but you may not trade cards already in your fields or cards you just received in a trade (page 4).
If I win a trade, do traded cards go into my hand immediately?
No — cards you receive in trade are placed horizontally next to your fields (not added to your hand) and must be planted during Phase 3 (pages 4–5).
Can I harvest only part of a field or harvest a single-card field while another field has multiple cards?
You must harvest an entire field (you cannot harvest only part of a field), and the Bean Protection Rule forbids harvesting a single-card field as long as you have another field containing more than one bean card (pages 5–6).
When I draw at the end of my turn where do the cards go, and what happens when the draw pile runs out?
In Phase 4 you draw three cards one after the other and place them at the back of your hand in the order drawn (page 5); if the draw pile is emptied you reshuffle the discard pile to form a new draw pile, and the game ends after the draw pile has run out for the third time (page 6).
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