Bohnanza PDF

“To Bean or not to bean!
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by Uwe Rosenberg, with illustrations by Björn Pertoft
Players: 2 – 7 • Ages: 10 and up • Duration: approx. 45 minutes
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The Idea of the Game
Bohnanza is all about planting, trading, and harvesting beans. Trade beans with the other
players and plant them in your fields. That is great fun! And the more beans you have in your
field, the more gold coins you get when you harvest them. If you have the most gold coins at
the end of the game, you win!
The following rules describe the original Base-Game for 3-5 players, with the original bean
kinds.
The three additional bean kinds – Cocoa Bean, Wax Bean and Coffee Bean – are only used in
the variant for up to 7 players. (See page 7)
Contents & Setup

Give one of the bean field mats to each player. These mats have one side showing three bean
fields and one side showing two fields:
If there are three players, use the mats with the three
bean fields side up.
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fields each.
For 3 players For 4-5 players
Pick a starting player and give them the starting player card. (The Starting Player Card
second starting player card is a replacement card if you need it—you
can keep it in the box.)
Starting
Player
There are 104 cards showing 8 different kinds of beans. The large
number printed on each card tells you how many cards with this kind
of bean are in the game.
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Garden Bean Red Bean Black-EyEd BEan Soy Bean Green Bean Stink Bean Chili Bean Blue Bean
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Shuffle all the cards and deal five cards to each player.
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You cannot change the order of the cards in your hand at any point during
the game! The first card you are dealt is the first card in your hand. It is
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Put the remaining cards in the center of the table as a draw pile, gold coin side up. During
the game, you will create a discard pile next to it and a gold coin stack in front of each player
(see illustration to the right).

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Playing the Game
er Card The starting player is the first active player. After that, players take turns going to the in
clockwise order. The starting player keeps the starting player card for the whole game (see
“The End of the Game”).
When it is your turn, you play through these four phases in order:
1. Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand
2. Turn Over and Trade Bean Cards
3. Plant Turned-over and Traded Bean Cards
4. Draw Bean Cards
Important Rules for Planting Beans:
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16 18 You can only plant one kind of bean in each field at a time. You are allowed to
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plant the same kind of bean in two different fields at the same time, but not
two kinds of bean in the same field. Put the bean cards in your field on top of
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Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand

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After that, you may choose

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When planting, you start or extend the column of cards in the field.
If you have to plant a kind of bean you do not have space for, you must harvest a field
first (see “Harvesting Beans”).
If you do not have any cards in your hand at the start of phase 1, skip it and go straight
to phase 2.
Phase 2: Turn Over and Trade Bean Cards 12 20
Turn over the top two cards from the draw pile and put them next to
it face-up for all players to see. Soy Bean Blue Bean
The turned-over cards belong to you: You can plant them in your fields or 2 4 6 7 4 6 8 10
use them to trade with the other players.

Example #1: Natalie has turned over a Soy Bean and a Blue Bean. She
keeps the Blue Bean, but there is no space for the Soy Bean in her bean
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fields, so she offers it up for trade to the other players. She asks: “Would
anyone like this Soy Bean? I’d like to trade it for a Red Bean.”
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Rules for Trading Beans:

Only the active player is allowed to trade with the other players. The other players cannot
trade with each other.
You may all trade using your hand cards, no matter where they are in your hands.
The active player can use the two turned-over cards for trading in addition to their hand
cards.
You cannot trade cards you have received in a trade.
You cannot trade the cards in your fields, either.
You are allowed to trade any number of beans for any number of other beans (e.g., two
Blue Beans for one Green Bean).
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Example #2: No-one wants to trade with Natalie,

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so she ups her offer: “I’ll give you the turned- Trade
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Note: Only remove beans from your hand once the trade has been agreed on. Both players
have to agree to the trade. This way, you can avoid discussions about where the card was
in your hand after having taken it out of order too soon.
Put any bean cards you receive in trade next to your bean fields horizontally for now. Do not
add them to your hand!
Example #3: Anna accepts Natalie’s offer
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of the Soy Bean and the Chili Bean

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horizontally. Anna does the same with

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the Soy Bean and the Chili Bean.

Natalie’s Bean Fields Anna’s Bean Fields
Note: As a special form of trade, you can also give another player bean cards. Players
receiving gifts have to agree to take them, though. If they refuse, you cannot give
them the cards.
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You may continue trading for as long as you like, even after the turned-over cards are gone.
When you want to stop, tell the other players. This ends phase 2.
Phase 3: Plant Turned-over and Traded Bean Cards
All players who have horizontal cards next to their bean fields now have to plant them. As
the active player, you will also have to plant any turned-over cards you have not traded away.
You can plant your new bean cards in any order you choose.
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Example #4: Natalie plants the Red
Soy Bean
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Bean she received in trade and the
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the Chili Bean in her two fields.
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Natalie’s Bean Fields Anna’s Bean Fields
If you have to plant a kind of bean that does not match the beans you already have in
your fields, you will have to harvest a field before you can plant your new beans (see
“Harvesting Beans”).
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Phase 4: Draw Bean Cards
End your turn by drawing three cards, one after the other, from the Stink
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the order you draw them. Then, the player to your left becomes the
new active player.
Harvesting Beans
You may harvest beans from your fields at any time during the game, even when you are not
the active player.
Each kind of bean has its own “beanometer”. This tells you how many Gold coins you get for
a given number of beans you harvest.
Note: Some harvests may not earn you any gold coins!
The Stink Bean’s beanometer tells you: If you Beanometer Number of Bean Dollars
harvest 1 or 2 Stink Beans, you don not get any 16
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gold coins. For 3 or 4 Stink Beans, you earn one
gold coin. 5 or 6 Stink Beans earn you two gold
coins, for 7 Stink Beans you get three gold coins, Stink Bean 3 5 7 8
and 8 or more Stink Beans pay out four gold coins. 3 5 7 8
Number of Bean Cards

When you harvest beans, follow these steps:
➊ Count the number of cards in the bean field you want to harvest. ➋ Check the top card’s
beanometer. ➌ Turn over as many of those cards as you get gold coins (according to the
beanometer) so that their gold coin sides show. ➍ Put these cards on your gold coin stack.
➎ Put the remaining cards from your field face-up on the discard pile. ➏ After you harvest,
the field must be empty—you cannot harvest only part of a field. 18
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Example #5: Greg has 3 Chili Beans in one of his
fields. The Chili Bean’s beanometer tells him that 18
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these three beans are worth 1 gold coin. Greg

Chili Bean
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turns one card over to its dollar side and puts it on

Chili Bean
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gold coin stack

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20 18 20 18 6 The Bean Protection Rule
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If there is only one bean card in one of your fields, you
Blue Bean Chili Bean Blue Bean cannot harvest it as long as you have another field
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containing more than one bean card.
If The Draw Pile Is Empty

When you draw the last card from the draw pile, re-shuffle the discard pile. Turn it over and
put it back in the center of the table as the new draw pile.
The End of the Game

The game ends when the draw pile runs out for the third time. If this happens during phase
2, “Trading Bean Cards”, complete phases 2 and 3 of your turn (even if you could only turn
over one card instead of two), then the game ends.
At the end of the game, harvest all of your bean fields and give yourself the appropriate
number of gold coins. Cards in your hand do not count towards your total.
Count the cards in your gold coin stack. Each card is worth one gold coin. The player with the
most gold coins wins the game!
If there is a tie, the tied player who sits the furthest away from the starting player
(going around the table clockwise) wins the game. Star
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You have purchased a quality product. Should you have any reason for complaint,
please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Variant: Three New Types of Beans (for 3-7 player games)
Components & Setup
Add the Cocoa, Wax, and Coffee Beans to your game.
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4x 22x 24x
CoCoa Bean Wax Bean Coffee Bean
2 3 4 4 8 11 13 4 7 10 12
Depending on the number of players, you will need to remove certain types of beans from the
game. The number of available bean fields also depends on the number of players.
Beans in Play
Based on the number of players, remove the following types of beans and put the cards back
in the box:
three players : Cocoa Beans
four/five players : Coffee Beans
six/seven players : Cocoa and Garden Beans
Number of Bean Fields
If there are three players, turn over your bean field mats so the side with three bean fields
shows.
If there are four to seven players, use the side of the bean field mats showing two bean fields.
for 3 players for 4-7 players
Playing the Game

Play the game just like regular Bohnanza: Each player starts with five cards in their hands;
On your turn, play through the usual four phases. Only the rules for phase 4, “Drawing bean
cards”, and the end of the game change when you play with extra types of beans.
Phase 4: Draw Bean Cards
Unlike in the base game, every player draws one card from the draw pile, adding them to
their hands behind the last card. Start with the active player and draw cards in a clockwise
direction.
The End of the Game
If there are three players, the game ends when the draw pile runs out for the second time.
If there are four or more players, the game ends when the draw pile runs out for the third
time, as usual.

The Bean Duel for 2 Players
The bean duel with two players uses the same rules as the variant for three players with the
following changes:
Remove the Garden Beans and the Cocoa Beans from the game.
A player may only sell beans from his bean fields on his turn.
The game ends when the draw deck is exhausted for the first time.
On a player’s turn, he does the following in the order indicated:
1. Plant or discard offered bean cards

The player may plant or discard the bean cards his opponent left as an offer in step 3 of his
turn. This is omitted by the starting player on his first turn.
2. Plant bean cards & discard
After planting one or two cards in his bean fields (as in the normal game), the player may
discard one card from anywhere in his hand face up on the discard pile.
3. Draw, plant, and offer beans
The active player draws the three topmost cards from the draw deck and puts them face up
on the table so both players can see them. If the topmost card on the discard pile matches any
of the cards just drawn, the player adds it to them. He does the same with the new topmost
card from the discard pile until the topmost card on the discard pile does not match any
of the drawn cards. Now the player may plant any of these drawn (from the draw deck or
discard pile) cards he wants, selling such beans as he can and wants in the process. He leaves
any drawn cards he does not want as an offer to his opponent. He need not plant any of the
drawn cards. The players can earn more gold coins through this extended draw.
4. Draw new bean cards
The active player draws two cards from the draw deck. He draws them one at a time, placing
each in turn at the back of his hand.

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“To Bean or not to bean!

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Contents & Setup

6x 8x 10x 12x 14x 16x 18x 20x

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Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand

in your hand (i.e. the one 20 14

that is completely visible) in Chili

one of your fields (see both 3

illustrations to the right).

After that, you may choose

one that is now completely 20 8 14

visible – in one of your fields Chili

(see both illustrations to the

right). You cannot plant a 4 6 8 10 2 3 4 5 3Green

third bean at this time.

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Phase 2: Turn Over and Trade Bean Cards 12 20

use them to trade with the other players.

Rules for Trading Beans:

Example #2: No-one wants to trade with Natalie,

over Soy Bean and a Chili Bean from my hand

for a Red Bean.” 2

of the Soy Bean and the Chili Bean

Natalie puts it next to her bean fields

horizontally. Anna does the same with

Blue Bean Red Bean

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the Soy Bean and the Chili Bean.

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Example #4: Natalie plants the Red

Natalie’s Bean Fields Anna’s Bean Fields

Number of Bean Cards

these three beans are worth 1 gold coin. Greg

turns one card over to its dollar side and puts it on

gold coin stack

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If The Draw Pile Is Empty

The End of the Game

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for 3 players for 4-7 players

Playing the Game

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1. Plant or discard offered bean cards

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