Bohnanza is a card game that is made by Rio Grande games. It was created by Uwe Rosenberg--the creator of other popular games such as Agricola and Le Havre. The artists who created the cartoonish world of the bean crop cards include Klemens Franz, Atelier Löwentor, and Björn Pertoft. The game is made to be played by two to seven players. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza

The gameplay concept is based on the world of bean farming. Each player during his or her turn collects bean cards and "plants" them into unseen "bean fields". It is up to each player to decide when it is most advantageous and profitable to harvest the beans before the bean market goes bust. The winner is the player who collects the most amount of money from their work bean farming. The average game can be played in about 45 minutes.http://www.riograndegames.com/games.html?id=36

Originally, the game was published in German, but has since been published in multiple other languages, including English. Many expansions have been created for the original Bohnanza game, many of which greatly alter the gameplay dynamic of the first card swapping boom-or-bust game. The expanding titles include: Mutabohn, Bohnanza Erweiterungs-Set, La Isla Bohnitâ, High Bohn, Bohnanza Erweiterungs, High Bohn: Bohnenduell um 12 Uhr mittags, Ladybohn, High Bohn Plus, Bohnaparte, Dschingis Bohn, Bohnanza Counters, Bohnanza: Amigo Bohnentaler, Bohnröschen, Telebohn, Auf der schwäb'schen Eisenbohn, and Bohnanza: Spiderbeans.http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza

At the heart of the game are a variety of different types of beans that are collected, planted, and harvested in order to make money. There are 11 cartoonish bean varieties total in the original game, and the following is a list of all that appear in the game:

• Coffee beans
• Wax beans
• Blue beans
• Chili beans
• Stink beans
• Green beans
• Soy beans
• Black-eyed beans
• Red beans
• Garden beans
• Cocoa beans