 - This great card game designed by Uwe Rosenberg is about planting, trading, and selling beans,
- Contents: 154 Bean Cards, 7 3rd Bean Field Cards, 1 Rule Booklet.
- The game is for 2-7 players aged 10 and up and takes about 45 minutes to play.
- This already expanded game has 11 bean varieties: enough for 7 players, but it also has rules for as few as two. Now everyone can be a successful bean farmer!
List Price: $19.99
Lowest Price: $13.03 
Product Description: Ever imagined you were a bean farmer? Sure, who hasn't? You got your red beans, your green beans, your black-eyed beans, your coffee beans... But where to plant them? In this card game, smart sowing lets you reap big rewards. Plant the beans you do want, and trade the beans you don't want to the other players. Adding to the realism of the game, the one who ends up with the most money wins! Comes with 154 Bean Cards, 7 Third Bean Field Cards and a rule booklet. Imported from Germany. For 2 to 7 players. Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-30
Better with more people, but even with three it's still pretty fun
I have a hard time convincing others to play this game, which is why I usually seem to play three-handed.
The trouble with a three person game is that you don't have enough competition. Less competition, and the trading is less cut-throat and intense. So if you think you'll rarely have four or more people to play, it might not be worth it.
Incidentally - don't think of it as a "bean farmer" game. Think of it, more honestly, as a ruthless and cut-throat game of trading. Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-19
Beantastic!!
Our family loves the Bean game, as we call it. Our 8 and 10 year old learned how to play the first game. The game teaches how to manage your "money". Great for learning organizing, planning and analyzing skills. Rating:
Date: 2008-01-03
Probably the fairest game I've ever played
This is a great game. At no point I would say does even the leading player have dominance over the other people. This is largely because this game forces you to trade with other people. And they don't have to accept trades from you, giving even losing players, some leverage.
The game is pretty simple, collect enough bean cards of a certain type in order sell them for coins. The coins are the bean cards flipped over. There are three rounds of play, so trying to remember what bean cards were flipped to be coins, does add an interesting element of chance to the game.
I would encourage players to stay within the rules. It's easy to develop house rules that break the game mechanics and spoil the game. Rating:
Date: 2007-12-25
Very fun game for all ages!!
This game sounds complicated in the instructions, but once you learn how to play it's so much fun! It's a game that my whole family can play together and enjoy! Rating:
Date: 2007-11-23
Fun for all
This game is fun for 4 or more people. We have played this a couple of times and every time we've had so much fun trading and planting! I'd recommend this to people who have enjoyed playing: Ticket to Ride, Power Grid, or Tichu. It always turns out to be very, very competitive...but I imagine that the personalities of the players play a big role also. |
