Bohnanza

Bohnanza is a German style card game of trading and negotiation designed by Uwe Rosenberg, first released in German in 1997 by Amigo Spiele and later published in English by Rio Grande Games. The original edition supports three to five players and takes roughly an hour to play, though the Rio Grande edition adds alternative rules extending play to between two and seven participants. Each player represents a bean farmer trying to plant, harvest and sell bean cards for coins, but is restricted to growing only two or three types of beans in fields at any one time and, unusually, must plant cards in the fixed order they are drawn without rearranging a hand of cards. Because the beans a player draws rarely match the beans already planted, players are pushed into constant trading and side deals with each other to offload unwanted beans and acquire ones that complete a profitable harvest. Its emphasis on open trading and light social negotiation over card power has made it one of the most enduringly popular German style games since its release.