Week 10 – Game Design

Game Review

Bohnanza

Bohnanza is a colorful bean card game in which you must trade, plant, and harvest bean cards to eventually collect coins which help you win the game. Once the third season ends, or third decks runs out, the game ends and players count their coins. The most unique part of the game is that you can’t rearrange your hand and you must play the cards in their order. The game involves negotiating, trading, and managing your hand. The game was not hard to adjust to after the first round. I think it could work well as a gateway game because it has replay value, it’s fairly simple, uses luck, and has an overall fun appeal.