Space Beans

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Nice Quick Filler Review by Austen

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It is hard to say anything too negative about this game. It is what it is, a nice, quick, easy filler card game. It doesn't try and be anything fancy and it a lot of fun with the right group.

Space Beans is similar to Bohnanza in that it is set collecting and you have "fields", but unlike Bohnanza there is no trading with other players. That was always my biggest issue with Bohnanza, I didn't like that people would give away cards to save themselves. With Space Beans you actually give all of your cards away instead!

Space Beans is very simple, pick up 2 cards, cash in your face up set if you want, plant and then pass your cards. What is fun is that you have one face up and one face down field so you only know half of the sets being collected. What is also kind of unique is that the number on your cards denote how many cards are needed in a set to cash it in. For instance if you have 3,5,5,6,9 in your hand you can cash them in for 5pts as you have five cards and a "5" card. The first one to 30 stops the game and then you harvest what you can.

For the price you can't go wrong. It is good brainless fun. (Posted on 1/5/11)