My First Bohnanza

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My First Bohnanza serves as both an introduction to Bohnanza & as a children&s game in its own right with the goal of the game being the same as its parent Have the most Talers at the end of play As in the original Bohnanza the game

Includes:: multiple types of beans with each bean having a number on it to indicate how many copies are in the game as well as a "beanometer" at the bottom of the card to show you how many cards of this type you need to harvest in order to collect Talers My First Bohnanza has simplified beanometers with four types of beans having only a single exchange value — eg five Gemeine (common) beans get you one Taler — & six types of beans having two exchange values Games with the youngest players (or newcomers to the Bohnanza universe) should use the single beanometer cards with the other cards forming a Taler stack To play each player gets five cards which they lay in a face-up row & a beanfield tile that shows spots for two types of beans On a turn a player must plant the first (leftmost) card in one of her fields & she can choose to plant a second Players try to group cards of the same type in the same field but they can cover beans of different types if needed The player then reveals two cards from the deck & either keeps them or trades them (and cards from her hand if desired) for cards held by other players; all traded cards must be planted To end her turn the player draws three cards & adds them to her row As soon as a player has the proper number of bean cards in order in one of her fields she harvests them placing these cards in the discard pile & collecting a Taler from the stack If those cards covered beans of another type she can then start building on those beans again After going through the deck 1-3 times (depending on the number of players) the game ends & whoever has the most Talers wins Once players have played My First Bohnanza a few times you can swap the single beanometer cards for the double beanometer cards which now gives players a choice of when to harvest Subsequently you can combine the two decks which introduces the rule about using one of the bean cards to serve as the Taler (which adjusts the quantity of that type of bean in the deck) With additional plays you can add in the remaining rules of Bohnanza such as needing to harvest for no Talers when planting paying for a third beanfield keeping your cards in hand & not being able to harvest a field with only one card Players 3-5 Suggested ages 5-8 Playing time 30 minutes