Bohnanza: 25 years of bean trading
18.1.2022
Translation: machine translated
Bohnanza has been regulating the worldwide bean trade since 1997. After several versions and expansions, the cult game celebrates its 25th birthday today.
Today the cult game celebrates its 25th anniversary. In 1995, German student Uwe Rosenberg had the idea for a satirical card game called "Kolchose." In the game, Rosenberg wanted to make fun of the communist planned economy of the former Soviet Union with cooperative cultivation of grain. Slightly modified and somewhat toned down, the game was launched on the market by Amigo-Verlag under the name "Bohnanza" in 1997.
In the meantime, Bohnanza has become one of those games that you can find in practically every vacation home, worldwide. Because in the last 25 years, more than 1.5 million copies have been sold in over 30 countries.
If you've never come into contact with the yellow box before, in Bohnanza you cultivate and harvest bean fields while constantly trading with your fellow players. It's suitable for three to five people and ages 10 and up. On average, a game lasts about 45 minutes. You can see the exact rules of the game in the video from Amigo. But beware: you'll feel like a five-year-old child afterwards.
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