We love this game, but we have one big question about the rules for Step 2/Step 3.
For the 2 cards flipped in Step 2. If no one at all wants them, does the active player have to plant them come Step 3, or do they go in the discard pile?
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Sign up to join this communityWe love this game, but we have one big question about the rules for Step 2/Step 3.
For the 2 cards flipped in Step 2. If no one at all wants them, does the active player have to plant them come Step 3, or do they go in the discard pile?
Yes,
They have to be planted by the active player if not traded to another player. However,the active player can plant one (ripping out whatever was there) and then, if all his bean fields have no more than one bean planted, plant the second in the same field (ripping out the first bean).
Don't forget that the active player can donate those beans too. Sometimes it is the best option.
Yes. However if that active player is desperate they are able to donate the cards. in a "free trade". As long as someone is willing to take them.