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Bohnanza Harvesting & Scoring: Beanometers, Gold and Game End

Understand Bohnanza harvest payouts, the Bean Protection rule, Gold cards, draw-pile reshuffles, game-end timing and final scoring.

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Bohnanza converts bean fields into Gold using the Beanometer printed on each bean card. Final score is the number of Gold cards you earned.

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Bohnanza converts bean fields into Gold using the Beanometer printed on each bean card. Final score is the number of Gold cards you earned.

Key takeaway

Understand Bohnanza harvest payouts, the Bean Protection rule, Gold cards, draw-pile reshuffles, game-end timing and final scoring.

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The following sections preserve the game’s rules, scoring explanations, related links and source notes from the original article.

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Harvest the entire field

You cannot harvest only part of a field. Count every bean in the chosen field, then consult that bean type’s payout thresholds.

Turn payout cards into Gold

For the earned payout, take that many bean cards from the harvested field and turn them coin-side up into your Gold stack. Discard the remaining harvested bean cards.

Some small fields score zero

If the field has fewer beans than the first Beanometer threshold, you may have to harvest it for no Gold when a forced plant leaves no alternative.

Bean Protection rule

You cannot harvest a field containing only one bean while another of your fields contains more than one bean, unless a rule/variant changes that restriction.

Game end depends on the base-game draw-pile cycle

The discard pile is reshuffled when the draw pile empties. In the standard multiplayer structure, the game ends on the final exhaustion specified for the current player count; common 4–5 player play uses the third exhaustion, while some player-count variants alter this.

Harvest remaining fields at the end

When the game ends, harvest all remaining bean fields for their normal payouts. Cards still in hand do not become Gold.

Most Gold wins

Count the cards in your Gold stack. Highest total wins; use the tiebreak from the rulebook for the player-count version you are playing.

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