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Mein erstes Bohnanza

I think I know how to do it!

Sometimes it had to come, the junior or children’s version of Bohnanza, one of the most successful card trading games of recent years. And here it is now, intended for children of age 4 and up, featuring the story of princess that loves beans and will only marry a prince that is best in planting and trading beans.

The game features ten types of beans showing Beanometer values of one and two bean dollars. The rules recommend to use only the four types of beans stated in the rules for the first few games, featuring one-dollar Beanometers only; the remaining bean cards are stacked face-up and are used for bean dollars. You don’t have cards in hand, but lay them out open-faced, and, of course, you cannot change the card sequence. Basically, you plant, trade and harvest as in Bohnanza. To plant beans you can make use of the Mixed Patch Rule, that is, you can mix bean types on a field and only must harvest when the number of beans necessary to earn on bean dollar is laid out in uninterrupted sequence. After a few games you can use the six bean types featuring two bean dollars in their Beanometer, and yet again later you can use the variety for experienced players. This variety uses all cards, allows you buy a third bean field and does not use the Mixed Patch Rule and thus introduces the forced harvest that earns no bean dollars.

Yes, it is still Bohnanza and thus the aim to create a children’s variant has been met; albeit only very experienced players of the targeted age group, who love to play their parents‘ games, will be able to cope with trading, not changing card sequences and knowing numbers to read the Beanometers.

Players: 3-5

Age: 4+

Time: 30+

Designer: Heike Kiefer, Hayo Siemsen, Uwe Rosenberg

Artist: Björn Pertoft

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2015

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Cards, negotiation

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Basically well-working junior version of Bohnanza

Requires a lot of gaming experience from the targeted age group

Playing time also rather long for four-year olds

Compares to:

Other editions of Bohnanza

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0