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.

Game	time "score"	average over time ranking
Puerto Rico	34.66	2nd
Settlers of Catan	32.41	4th
Euphrat & Tigris	26.17	20th
Caylus	26.12	37th
Power Grid/Funkenschlag	22.06	25th
Carcassonne	21.79	3rd
Notre Dame	19.89	12th
Ticket To Ride	19.37	1st
Thurn and Taxis	16.06	9th
Goa	15.83	46th
Age of Steam	15.42	52nd
Bohnanza	14.85	14th
Union Pacific	14.41	55th
Ra	12.61	8th
Princes of Florence	12.26	30th
St Petersburg	11.99	10th
Settlers of Catan Card Game	11.72	70th
Shadows Over Camelot	11.71	49th
Lost Cities	10.46	5th
San Juan	10.43	6th
Ticket to Ride: Europe	10.06	29th
Tikal	9.65	88th
El Grande	9.47	90th
Amun-Re	8.97	56th
Lord of the Rings	8.86	81st
Liar's Dice/Bluff/Perudo	8.79	7th
Alhambra	8.48	22nd
Twilight Struggle	8.46	119th
Taj Mahal	8.27	75th
Agricola	8.05	109th
Ingenious	7.96	11th
Arkham Horror	7.88	174th
Titan	7.83	282nd
Tichu	7.82	48th
Through the Desert	7.66	28th
BattleLore	7.54	53rd
Formula De	7.43	86th
Blue Moon City	7.40	54th
Attika	7.32	31st
Web of Power/China	7.28	32nd
Ticket to Ride - Märklin	6.94	59th
War of the Ring	6.80	227th
Zooloretto	6.72	35th
Samurai	6.71	63rd
Transamerica/europa	6.65	17th
Coloretto	6.64	18th
10 Days/Europa Tour	6.57	19th
Elfenland	6.46	140th
Railroad Tycoon	6.39	143rd
Colosseum	6.22	150th

Here's the missing top 50 games (average over time) and where they placed when adjusted for time.

Game	time "score"	average over time ranking	time ranking
Yspahan	6.20	40th	51st
Wyatt Earp	6.17	41st	52nd
Citadels	6.14	42nd	53rd
Bang!	6.13	43rd	54th
Take 6	6.10	21st	55th
Race for the Galaxy	5.58	24th	61st
Crokinole	5.18	26th	62nd
Schotten-Totten/Battleline	6.22	27th	70th
Memoir '44	4.80	33rd	79th
Mamma Mia!/Sole Mio	4.28	38th	89th
Diamant/Incan Gold	3.92	13th	94th
To Court A King	3.86	50th	97th
Can't Stop	3.65	15th	104th
No Thanks/Geschenkt	3.33	16th	116th
For Sale	2.81	23rd	136th
Loopin' Louie	2.37	36th	162nd
Zirkus Flohcati	2.22	36th	170th
Take It Easy	2.00	44th	184th