Killer Bunnies: Special Cards

As well as the cards you get in the starter and booster decks (which are all fixed, by the way, meaning that each contains the same cards), there are additional series' of cards.

The cards in the Omega Series are released at special events (eg. conventions), or sometimes you can get them for free when you buy a booster deck. We have the following:

• #5: Lord Of The Bunnies (bought from eBay for $US2.25 + postage)
• #7: No Supe For You (bought from eBay for 0.99 pounds + postage)
• #8: Hare E. Potter (bought from eBay for $US4.00 + postage)
• #9: Dago Bunny (free with red deck)
  
• #10: Baby Bunnies on Board (free with Starter Deck)

I've tried several times to get others, but the earlier ones go really expensive on eBay. The first one, for example, I've seen sell for over $US100!!! Also, I once saw the lot (all 10 cards available at the time) go for over $US300! That's a lot of nuts!

Then there is the Psi Series of cards, which come free in Bunny Blanks (packs of blank cards for you to make your own). You get two in each pack. We have:

• #1: Spider Bunny
• #2: Bunny Eye For The Carrot Guy
• #3: Shazbot! (this is a cool card! When you give it to someone, they're not allowed to swear, and if they do, they have to return a carrot - we consider only 'f***', 's***' and 'c***' as swear words)
• #4: After Darkness
  

Bohnaparte

So.... we got Bohnaparte the other week - one of two expansions to Bohnanza.

Now, don't get us wrong, Bohnanza by itself is great, but after a while of playing it, you start to feel that surely there's more to it.

Write-ups of this expansion describe it as Bohnanza meets RISK, so I think I immediately thought - fricken schweeet, in a non-nerdy kind of way.

Basically, this expansion adds another phase to the existing 4 phases there are in Bohnanza (I think). This new phase is the 'attacking phase' where you attack into properties (such as villages, cities, quarries etc). Also, coins are not saved to add up your score at the end of the game, but are used to finance your attacks.

At the start of the game, you layout all of the empty properties and each player is given a colour token to place on their Encampment, you then move from your Encampment into other adjacent properties when attacking. Each property gives the player who owns that property special abilities, and has a number of flags at the bottom of the card which you add up at the end of the game to determine a winner (if the deck is exhausted 4 times). Otherwise, the winner is the first player to take over 12 properties.

Which brings me to my next point, are they even called properties? I can’t think of any other name.

To take over a property, you need to pay one gold coin. You then select one card from you hand to attack with, and the defender chooses a card from their hand to defend with (or you flip up the top card in the Well to defend with if it is an empty property). Or the other option is you can attack with the top card from the Well, and the defender can choose to flip a Well card over to defend with too. I guess, if you have shit bean cards in your hand, you’re more likely to win using a random card from the Well.

Which brings me to my next point, “shit cards”. All bean cards have a number of them representing how many of them are in the game. Blue Beans for example have the number 20 on them. As they are the most common, I’m pretty sure they are the crappest ones to collect as you get less gold for them when you harvest as they are the most common. However, with this expansion they are the most valuable as you are guaranteed to win in the defense process (as 20 is the highest value card, and if both the attacker and defender reveal a Blue Bean card, the defender will always win in a draw). They are also of course awesome to attack with, durrr.
Chilli Beans are the next best card (18 value).

I feel I’ve done the worst job at explaining this game, and I guess it doesn’t help when on most occasions I’ve cracked the shits and started yelling (I still haven’t got the whole knack of the game yet)

Anyway, feel free to give us a call anytime to have a game with us!

Simon usually wins too (crapper).... Jules... should we write up the scoreboard so far?