Uwe Rosenberg Games - Bohnanza, Agricola, Le Havre (Paperback)

Chapters: Bohnanza, Agricola, le Havre. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bohnanza is a German-style card game of trading and politics, designed by Uwe Rosenberg and released in 1997 by Amigo Spiele in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. It is played with a deck of cards with comical illustrations of eight different types of beans (of varying scarcities), which the players are trying to plant and sell in order to raise money. The principal restriction is that players may only be farming two or three types of bean at once, but they obtain beans of all different types randomly from the deck, and so must engage in trading with the other players to be successful. The original game is for three to six players and takes about one hour to play, but the Rio Grande edition adds alternative rules to allow games for two or seven players. The name is a pun on the words "bonanza" and "Bohne" (German for "bean"). The official English release preserved the name Bohnanza. These beans were added in an expansion in the German edition. In the English edition of the game, the beans were included in the standard set. The English edition of the game changed the Weinbrandbohne (Brandy Bean) into the Wax Bean. In German, "Blaue Bohnen" is slang for bullets, explaining the illustration of the blue bean dressed as a cowboy. In German, green beans are called "Brechbohnen" referring to the verb "brechen" meaning "to break" ("breaking" the beans from the bush in order to harvest them), but "brechen" in German can also mean "to vomit," explaining the illustration of the vomiting green bean Each player is dealt a hand of cards to start (the exact hand size varies with expansion set and number of players; in the base version it is five cards). Cards in hand must be kept ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=83206