Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Five & Dime 2007: Time After Time

There's always been a bit of discussion (in my less charitable moods, I'd call it "whining") about the emphasis that the Five & Dime lists put on shorter games, particularly fillers. (Of course, one person's filler game is another person's "main dish" game - filler is in the eye of the beholder.) But there's been a lot more of it this year.

So I finally caved... I used the same top 350 games (percentage of plays-wise) that I mentioned in the Decay post... the cut-off number ended up being an average of 2.0% or better over time. I then gave them each a playing time estimate in 15 min. increments. To get the "score" you see in the charts below, I multiplied the average percentage of plays by the number of minutes. The "average over time ranking" is their rank when not adjusted for time of play.
Gametime "score"average over time ranking
Puerto Rico34.662nd
Settlers of Catan 32.414th
Euphrat & Tigris26.1720th
Caylus26.1237th
Power Grid/Funkenschlag22.0625th
Carcassonne21.793rd
Notre Dame19.8912th
Ticket To Ride19.371st
Thurn and Taxis16.069th
Goa15.8346th
Age of Steam15.4252nd
Bohnanza14.8514th
Union Pacific14.4155th
Ra12.618th
Princes of Florence12.2630th
St Petersburg11.9910th
Settlers of Catan Card Game11.7270th
Shadows Over Camelot11.7149th
Lost Cities 10.465th
San Juan10.436th
Ticket to Ride: Europe10.0629th
Tikal9.6588th
El Grande9.4790th
Amun-Re8.9756th
Lord of the Rings8.8681st
Liar's Dice/Bluff/Perudo8.797th
Alhambra8.4822nd
Twilight Struggle8.46119th
Taj Mahal8.2775th
Agricola8.05109th
Ingenious7.9611th
Arkham Horror7.88174th
Titan7.83282nd
Tichu7.8248th
Through the Desert7.6628th
BattleLore7.5453rd
Formula De7.4386th
Blue Moon City7.4054th
Attika7.3231st
Web of Power/China7.2832nd
Ticket to Ride - Märklin6.9459th
War of the Ring6.80227th
Zooloretto6.7235th
Samurai6.7163rd
Transamerica/europa6.6517th
Coloretto6.6418th
10 Days/Europa Tour6.5719th
Elfenland6.46140th
Railroad Tycoon6.39143rd
Colosseum6.22150th

Here's the missing top 50 games (average over time) and where they placed when adjusted for time.
Gametime "score"average over time rankingtime ranking
Yspahan6.2040th51st
Wyatt Earp6.1741st52nd
Citadels6.1442nd53rd
Bang!6.1343rd54th
Take 66.1021st55th
Race for the Galaxy5.5824th61st
Crokinole5.1826th62nd
Schotten-Totten/Battleline6.2227th70th
Memoir '444.8033rd79th
Mamma Mia!/Sole Mio4.2838th89th
Diamant/Incan Gold3.9213th94th
To Court A King3.8650th97th
Can't Stop3.6515th104th
No Thanks/Geschenkt3.3316th116th
For Sale2.8123rd136th
Loopin' Louie2.3736th162nd
Zirkus Flohcati2.2236th170th
Take It Easy2.0044th184th

2 comments:

ironcates said...

Yeah, but one game of the monster American Civil War game is 48 hours and if that doesn't make anyone's five list it will never show up :Sarcasm: :whine:

Mark (aka pastor guy) said...

Thanks for bringing that up, Steve... I chose to only deal with 2.00%+ games ON PURPOSE.