This is a traumatic game for me. I once played a single game for several hours because players would not pass turns but instead beg for the same bean for half an hour.
I had a guy in one of my early-in-the-hobby gaming groups lament once, "You know, it feels like they really missed a chance to name the game "Beananza."" I was very gentle with him.
If I had a nickel for every SU&SD review that ended with Tom cracking open a can of beans, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
I don't know if it was like "the best editorial choice to make", but the fraction of a moment of Tom starting to break after saying "getting absolutely fucked up on beans" is beautiful.
0:40 they had to cut RIGHT before Tom broke out laughing but you can still see the corner of his lip curl up JUST before the jump, I love it lol This was one of the best episodes in a LONG long time.
One of my favorite games. My wife and I made up an epic custom deck that we use with our friends and family. 7 new bean types; Vanilla Beans, Butter Beans, Pinto Beans, Jumping Beans, Kidney Beans, Runner Beans, and Rice Beans. We also have house rules for Sun cards, Rain cards, Magic Beans, Field Beans, Picks, and Weeds.
Bean is the cat my wife had before we moved in together (mine were Ghost and Shaq). Bean likes me alright but is more her cat. He thought you were calling him this entire video and is very affectionate right now.
Tom Brewster is becoming too powerful. Nobody on the team seems to have editorial control over his scripts. His editing skills seems to be going both forwards AND backwards in time simultaneously. He is powered by beans, and cannot be stopped.
I've bean looking forward to catching up on SU&SD videos, but I have to make a toast to the continued quality of your videos. The text messages shown for like two seconds had me and the meta joke of explaining a game you've never played is top notch. So many quality moments in this review.
Thank youuuuuuu for showing this game, this is one of my fiancee's and me favorite games, it is absolutely hysterical to trade with beans, and they have the most ridiculous in spanish too which makes into some incredible serious trading with the most out of pocket naming "Dame 2 judías colorás por una pocha ahora mismo!"
Same. It's a real masterpiece. It simultaneously scratches the itch for a fun party game that's an engine for socialization and something a little crunchier. I honestly can't think of another game that sits in that niche - at least not one that does it nearly as well. If BGG users had friends and liked to have fun, it would be in the top 25 there instead of the low 500s.
New drinking game Make some friends see the first minute of a Tom review, they must guess what kind of product he is reviewing. For every wrong answer, everybody drinks.
Bohnanza is my groups’ absolute favorite. If you play with the same people the meta that develops is outta control fun. Joe always spams the Red Beans! Don’t let Mary have the Greens! So fun
This review has almost the perfect amount of beans humor. The perfect amount of beans humor is "more beans humor" so to achieve that, you'd need an infinitely long video. But you really made a showing here.
The state of my current version (~20yrs old) and the inclusion of a signed postcard of Uwe Rosenberg makes the 25th aniversary edition a pretty tempting prospect.
So... I love SUSD videos - they are one of my favourite UA-cam things to watch. when I looked at the homescreen and it was _Tom_ and he was reviewing _Beans_ - I was so excited. Beans has been a family favourite for years ... and everyone knows Tom loves himself a bit of Beans and is _really_ good at talking about games. Finally, we can have a erudite and enthusiastic reviewer explaining why newbies would love this crazy trader. I can send to all my non-gamer friends - and see if I can whip up some enthusiasm for legume based play. We all know it's a gateway to so much more boardgamey action. Just as long as he doesn't take a sweet family trading game with (admittedly terrible) childlike art and turn it into an extended drugs metaphor with characters dying from overdoses... .... oh... he did.... ...still - love everything else you've done, Tom!
Shut up and sit down is one of the very few channels that can get me to actually audibly laugh and smile at their stuff. Normally it's just a strong exhale thru my nose in amusement.
"Add beans to any meal, and it becomes gourmet!" - My Uncle David from the UK. He said this when he served me a microwave pizza from Tesco, and put beans upon it.
This game is so unassuming and so great. A real treat! I think even if "negotiation" is not your usual cup, you still have a chance of enjoying it -- you will get sucked in by the puzzle of fixing your un-orderable hand so you can bean all the way to the bank.
The Tim reveal and the consistency of referring to the B roll as the Bean roll was impeccable. It is amazing how fast Bohnanza goes from "OK, I just need you to trust me when I say we're going to play a game about bean farming" to raving zombies demanding you give them more beans. Its definitely a classic for a reason, I am constantly surprised that there hasn't really been someone to come along, slap a more appealing theme and a little spice on top as a new game yet.
Tom I don't know if it was intentional. But after saying getting absolutely *****ed up on beans. Letting the shot go a few extra frames to show your facial expression changing from serious to the early stages of laughter was gold for me.
Well, I love games, and I love beans, so it seems like this is a game for me ^^ thank you very much for reviewing it :D not only a fun review, but seems like a genuinely fun game :)
I can vouch for what Tom says. Everybody loves this game - except for the occasional sour puss. It's in a sweet spot of being a great vehicle for a group to have laughs and socializing while also having an edge of crunchiness to it. It's both a party game and a middle-weight hand management game. Plus it's a small, easy to store box and -- at least a decade ago -- was pretty cheap. All-in-all, it just has a remarkable ROI.
Tom throwing out some instant classic buttons on his videos. "He died of smoking beans" is immediately iconic. Love Tom's willingness to get surreal and strange.
So wait, I just went to go read the rules for this version, and I see there is no rule for paying three coins to get a third bean field. You just straight up start with this third bean field in 3 player game, and two bean fields in 4+ player games with no option of buying a third. I guess cause it was always a poor decision to get a third field in 4 player and up games?
People should note that Bohnanza is from a generation of German family games/strategy games that were very different from modern euros and family games. Not only were they much more accessible and rules light but the emphasis was on player interaction and player engagement. Bohnanza is an excellent example. For more like it people should research games that came out from 1995-2004 (the Catan era)
Love the ludicrous commitment to inventive framing that harkens back to OG SU&SD (sadly minus the indie soundtrack, but I know you guys aren’t made of licensing fees)
I really enjoyed this. I already own the game, but you sold it well. I might have to get that 25th anniversary edition for the seventh player and extra beans!
I’ve hurt my face from trying not to laugh and wake up the person napping across the room (completely exhausted from helping me unbox and set up Gloomhaven. I am not joking). We should have just gotten some beans.
One of the best trading games around. The way you are FORCED to plant (so asymmetry of desires is heightened) is genius. I'm the Boss is my other fave.
Awesome! My beaning days are over, tries to sleep most nights now. This game is fun but is 100% depending on NOT having THAT GUY at the table. The one that has a 10 min turn and makes your turn 5 min longer and four others players too...
The first game of beans I played was miserable, because I played with hyper competitive players who refused to do trades unless you made them rich. The second game was super fun because everyone was trying to pump each other up.
I had a similar experience with Chinatown. The first time I played was with strangers who turned it into Accounting: The Game. Second time I played was with friends and a used my friends partnership as leverage to win the game. Second time was definitely more fun!
Who else thought when B&W Tom’s hand put down the bean can that he was going to just pop it open and pour the beans directly from the can into his mouth?
Nice to see Tom is just a normal human bean.
And a real hero!
"Get Out."
*points to door*
Just like tou and me
And remember, Gary loves you
ligma beans.
Booooooooo lol
Finally a SUSD video that doesn't cost me any money because I already own the game.
I got it for my birthday, literally the day before this video came out!
One has to wonder if Uwe ever imagined that videos like this would be getting published decades after he came out with his game about Beans.
It predates UA-cam by about 8 years, so probably not?
No, he knew.
@@afaulconbridge yeah but it does not predate videos
Is the reason we haven't seen Quinns for awhile that he's trying to kick his Bean habit?
This is a traumatic game for me. I once played a single game for several hours because players would not pass turns but instead beg for the same bean for half an hour.
I sincerely hope you don't still play with that bean brain
Excellent use of passive voice here, you avoided saying 'we' the whole comment
@@Shoitaan not with that person and certainly never again drunk on a metal fest
My game like that is Sherrif of Nottingham. At some point you just need to take no for an answer and move on lol
@@bradleyforsyth7990 There really is no game that can't be ruined by playing it with the wrong person. We've all got a story like that.
Tom's surrealism reaches new peaks at 9:45 where he describes the experience of having three friends.
For those, that don't understand the games title: Bean is "Bohne" in German.
I had a guy in one of my early-in-the-hobby gaming groups lament once, "You know, it feels like they really missed a chance to name the game "Beananza."" I was very gentle with him.
and in Dutch as well
@@adamhunt7892You know, it really seems like they missed the chance to print the English version of this game as Beananza
@@Nick-dc6ix This
If I had a nickel for every SU&SD review that ended with Tom cracking open a can of beans, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
So happy for Tom that he finally got to talk about beans.
I don't know if it was like "the best editorial choice to make", but the fraction of a moment of Tom starting to break after saying "getting absolutely fucked up on beans" is beautiful.
10:32 "26 years! This game is older than me!"
*thirtysomething lower back pain intensifies*
0:40 they had to cut RIGHT before Tom broke out laughing but you can still see the corner of his lip curl up JUST before the jump, I love it lol This was one of the best episodes in a LONG long time.
One of my favorite games. My wife and I made up an epic custom deck that we use with our friends and family. 7 new bean types; Vanilla Beans, Butter Beans, Pinto Beans, Jumping Beans, Kidney Beans, Runner Beans, and Rice Beans. We also have house rules for Sun cards, Rain cards, Magic Beans, Field Beans, Picks, and Weeds.
The editing style of these recent Tom videos is so up my alley.
So many genuinely laugh out loud moments - love that SU&SD will go back and address the classics that are still relevant today. Kudos to all involved.
Bean is the cat my wife had before we moved in together (mine were Ghost and Shaq). Bean likes me alright but is more her cat. He thought you were calling him this entire video and is very affectionate right now.
Matt's texts to Uwe Rosenberg omg 😅😂💀
How did you get this number?
The best part of the video lol
Bohnanza is a great game. Got my first copy 20+ years ago and we still go back and play it.
Tom Brewster is becoming too powerful. Nobody on the team seems to have editorial control over his scripts. His editing skills seems to be going both forwards AND backwards in time simultaneously. He is powered by beans, and cannot be stopped.
I've bean looking forward to catching up on SU&SD videos, but I have to make a toast to the continued quality of your videos. The text messages shown for like two seconds had me and the meta joke of explaining a game you've never played is top notch. So many quality moments in this review.
Love the Requiem For a Bean outro.
Thank youuuuuuu for showing this game, this is one of my fiancee's and me favorite games, it is absolutely hysterical to trade with beans, and they have the most ridiculous in spanish too which makes into some incredible serious trading with the most out of pocket naming "Dame 2 judías colorás por una pocha ahora mismo!"
Definitely Uwe Rosenburg's best game about beans.
The fact that "beans" is street slang for fentanyl makes this review so much better.
Bohnanza is unironically one of my favorite games, glad you finally covered it
Same. It's a real masterpiece. It simultaneously scratches the itch for a fun party game that's an engine for socialization and something a little crunchier. I honestly can't think of another game that sits in that niche - at least not one that does it nearly as well. If BGG users had friends and liked to have fun, it would be in the top 25 there instead of the low 500s.
What are some of your ironically favorite games?
A classic I've played for years. You might say I've...
*bean* there, done that.
At 3:18 , vacuous man couldn't have removed the Soy Bean, because the game has a strict leave-single-beans-alone policy
Easy to miss. Played the game for 3 years before we re-read the rules and realized you couldn't do that. We also missed the no re-trading beans rule.
You manage to one-up yourself each video with how unhinged they get, well done.
having [bottom text] in that graphic absolutely sent me
This is incredible. If doing homages of Brass Eye is the new direction, I am 100% for it. Amazing work Tom!
New drinking game
Make some friends see the first minute of a Tom review, they must guess what kind of product he is reviewing. For every wrong answer, everybody drinks.
RIP 😅
Unfortunately my friends know me and board game would be among the first 3 answers for sure
This review has bean a long time coming and was absolute genius such an entertaining delight
Bohnanza is my groups’ absolute favorite. If you play with the same people the meta that develops is outta control fun. Joe always spams the Red Beans! Don’t let Mary have the Greens! So fun
I love these reviews of classic games like Bohnanza and Modern Art.
This review has almost the perfect amount of beans humor. The perfect amount of beans humor is "more beans humor" so to achieve that, you'd need an infinitely long video. But you really made a showing here.
The state of my current version (~20yrs old) and the inclusion of a signed postcard of Uwe Rosenberg makes the 25th aniversary edition a pretty tempting prospect.
I'm so glad I didn't stop the video after the outro
So... I love SUSD videos - they are one of my favourite UA-cam things to watch. when I looked at the homescreen and it was _Tom_ and he was reviewing _Beans_ - I was so excited. Beans has been a family favourite for years ... and everyone knows Tom loves himself a bit of Beans and is _really_ good at talking about games. Finally, we can have a erudite and enthusiastic reviewer explaining why newbies would love this crazy trader. I can send to all my non-gamer friends - and see if I can whip up some enthusiasm for legume based play. We all know it's a gateway to so much more boardgamey action.
Just as long as he doesn't take a sweet family trading game with (admittedly terrible) childlike art and turn it into an extended drugs metaphor with characters dying from overdoses...
.... oh... he did....
...still - love everything else you've done, Tom!
Shut up and sit down is one of the very few channels that can get me to actually audibly laugh and smile at their stuff. Normally it's just a strong exhale thru my nose in amusement.
It is now 1:30 AM, I need to go to bed, but now I have a craving for beans. Which I don't have.
I hope you're happy, SU&SD.
I hope you're happy.
Bohnanza is my all time favorite game! Thanks for doing a review of it!
I have always loved Tim's reviews. Though this was his last, I can confidently say it was one of his best.
What makes this game even better is that in German the names of the blue and green beans are puns, although the translation team did a good job
The humour here is approaching Chris Morris levels of surreal and unsettling majesty!
Bohnanza is probably the game that got me into the board and card game hobby.
"Add beans to any meal, and it becomes gourmet!" - My Uncle David from the UK. He said this when he served me a microwave pizza from Tesco, and put beans upon it.
This game is so unassuming and so great. A real treat! I think even if "negotiation" is not your usual cup, you still have a chance of enjoying it -- you will get sucked in by the puzzle of fixing your un-orderable hand so you can bean all the way to the bank.
Tom if you need help, it is available. No one needs to suffer in silence with bean addiction. Or otherwise known as Beanddiction.
This is my new favourite susd video, great work tom!
"The rest, remains unclear" --- my personal fav. Nobody can stop Tom the Train (actually the Engine).
YESSS [slightly unhinged] Bohnanza coverage! We love this game over here! Hilarious stuff. - G
If you thought that by now this game would be a has-bean, you kidney bean more wrong!
When a friend asks you how you've been, and you freeze up like a deer in the headlights, you might be Bean-Brained.
The Tim reveal and the consistency of referring to the B roll as the Bean roll was impeccable.
It is amazing how fast Bohnanza goes from "OK, I just need you to trust me when I say we're going to play a game about bean farming" to raving zombies demanding you give them more beans. Its definitely a classic for a reason, I am constantly surprised that there hasn't really been someone to come along, slap a more appealing theme and a little spice on top as a new game yet.
Tom I don't know if it was intentional. But after saying getting absolutely *****ed up on beans. Letting the shot go a few extra frames to show your facial expression changing from serious to the early stages of laughter was gold for me.
A classic game that I will never turn down.
My player glitched and skipped from 3 minutes in to the end and I was genuinely like "oh they forgot to review the game as some kind of bit"
Well, I love games, and I love beans, so it seems like this is a game for me ^^ thank you very much for reviewing it :D not only a fun review, but seems like a genuinely fun game :)
I laughed. I cried. I lived. 10/10 beans,
This looks like a really fun game! I particularly enjoyed the bean skits.
I can vouch for what Tom says. Everybody loves this game - except for the occasional sour puss. It's in a sweet spot of being a great vehicle for a group to have laughs and socializing while also having an edge of crunchiness to it. It's both a party game and a middle-weight hand management game. Plus it's a small, easy to store box and -- at least a decade ago -- was pretty cheap. All-in-all, it just has a remarkable ROI.
Tom throwing out some instant classic buttons on his videos. "He died of smoking beans" is immediately iconic.
Love Tom's willingness to get surreal and strange.
i have been waiting MONTHS for this!
About 312 months or so?
Matt wearing a La Dispute Beanie makes me very happy. It takes a certain special kind of person to appreciate and feel that music 🖤
Wait, a La Dispute poster? I didn’t know I could love you even more!
That was the best Tom video I've ever seen.
So wait, I just went to go read the rules for this version, and I see there is no rule for paying three coins to get a third bean field. You just straight up start with this third bean field in 3 player game, and two bean fields in 4+ player games with no option of buying a third. I guess cause it was always a poor decision to get a third field in 4 player and up games?
Bohnanza is a classic, and still the best example of a fun accessible trading game that I know.
This is so silly. And so good. Great work, guys :D
Loving the Brass Eye Style to this
this goofy. love you guys.
this has got to be one of the most unhinged board game reviews you've done. up there with the Button Shy one
So glad this got made. I love this game and it was a joy to watch Tom enthuse about it. (Matt was there too.)
(Matt was also great)
Super pumped y'all finally reviewed this game officially! 10/10, though definitely missed Quinns consistently saying "Bohnanza" as if it baffles him
I’ve bean eyeing bohnanza for years. Thanks for fertilizing my interest?
People should note that Bohnanza is from a generation of German family games/strategy games that were very different from modern euros and family games. Not only were they much more accessible and rules light but the emphasis was on player interaction and player engagement. Bohnanza is an excellent example. For more like it people should research games that came out from 1995-2004 (the Catan era)
Love the ludicrous commitment to inventive framing that harkens back to OG SU&SD (sadly minus the indie soundtrack, but I know you guys aren’t made of licensing fees)
I really enjoyed this. I already own the game, but you sold it well. I might have to get that 25th anniversary edition for the seventh player and extra beans!
One of the greatest Thumbnails.
I’ve hurt my face from trying not to laugh and wake up the person napping across the room (completely exhausted from helping me unbox and set up Gloomhaven. I am not joking). We should have just gotten some beans.
Only Tom could make "roll 'em if you got 'em" relevant in a card game.
That artwork still puts me off getting this game, and I've played it and know that it's good
One of the best trading games around. The way you are FORCED to plant (so asymmetry of desires is heightened) is genius.
I'm the Boss is my other fave.
Love playing this w my family
Awesome! I hope this opens up the gates for more classic reviews.
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY!!! BEANSSSSS!!!
Thanks for this amazing video. Made my day
“This game is 26. This game is older than me.”
*insert Saving Private Ryan gif where Matt Damon goes from 19 to 83*
0:43 cutting just as Tom starts to lose it. Good work editor.
"What should we do next?"
"BEANS TO BEANS"
Lmao over Matt texting Uwe Rosenberg for help with his games.
Laughed out loud at the ending!
Delightfully unhinged. Would bean again.
Holy frijole, I've bean waiting for Tom to review this game longer than he has bean a fully-formed human bean.
Awesome! My beaning days are over, tries to sleep most nights now.
This game is fun but is 100% depending on NOT having THAT GUY at the table. The one that has a 10 min turn and makes your turn 5 min longer and four others players too...
Surprised to hear the dig at the artwork, I've always found it charming!
This is the game where we invented the 'Favour Matrix' to track the minute lopsidedness of the trades.
Love the video to bits. Much deserved. Now Tichu!!
The first game of beans I played was miserable, because I played with hyper competitive players who refused to do trades unless you made them rich. The second game was super fun because everyone was trying to pump each other up.
I had a similar experience with Chinatown. The first time I played was with strangers who turned it into Accounting: The Game.
Second time I played was with friends and a used my friends partnership as leverage to win the game.
Second time was definitely more fun!
Who else thought when B&W Tom’s hand put down the bean can that he was going to just pop it open and pour the beans directly from the can into his mouth?
can we appreciate the virtually seamless cut at 2:24! also beans