It's Still Personal: My Five & Dime Game Lists for 2017

Hey, campers... I may have stopped collecting the Five & Dime stats for everyone else - but I haven't stopped collecting my own!

Here's my own personal Five & Dime list (the games I played 5+ and 10+ times in 2017).

As always, I include only face-to-face games and games played with human opponents over apps/online.

Games with an asterisk [*] were on my Five & Dime list last year, games with two asterisks [**] have been on my list for the past two years, games with three asterisks [***] have been there for three years, games with four asterisks [****] have been there for 4 years, games with a plus [+] have been there 5 years, games with a plus and an asterisk [+*] have been there 6 years... and games with a plus and an asterisk [+**] have been there (wait for it) for the past 7 years!

Quarters

• Jump Drive 40
• Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure 32
• DC Comics Deck-Building Game (includes Teen Titans & Forever Evil): 26 ***
• Port Royal 20

Dimes

• Star Realms 17 ***
• Runebound (3rd edition) 14
• Sentinels of the Multiverse 14 +
• DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Rivals - Batman vs The Joker 13 *
• The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game 13
• 7 Wonders Duel 12 *
• 7 Wonders 11 **
• Android Netrunner 10
• Hotshots 10
• Pandemic: The Cure 10

Nickels

• Adrenaline 9
• Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters 9
• Sushi Go Party! 8
• Mole Rats in Space 8
• Space Cadets: Away Missions 8
• Flamme Rouge 8
• Trains 8
• Fabled Fruit 7 
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle 7
• Skip-Bo 7 *
• Bang! The Dice Game 6
• Clank! In! Space! 6
• Family Business 6
• Habitats 6
• New York Slice 6
• Armageddon 5
• Zirkus Flohcati 5
• Codenames 5 *
• Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2nd edition) 5 *
• Pandemic Legacy (Season Two) 5
• Galaxy Trucker 5
• Fast Forward: Fear 5
• Race for the Galaxy 5 +**
• Roll for the Galaxy 5 *
• Summoner Wars 5 +*
• Ticket to Ride 5

Just Missed (with 4 plays)

A caret [^] denotes that they were on the Five & Dime list last year... and a pound sign [#] marks games I'm pretty sure will return in 2018.

• 51st State: Master Set
• Chariot Race
• Colony ^ #
• DC Deck-Building Game: Confrontations #
• Fast Food Franchise #
• Favor of the Pharaoh ^ #
• Fields of Green
• Hop Hop Hooray!
• Karuba #
• Liar's Dice
• Numeri
• Quantum
• Quarriors! ^
• Rhino Hero: Super Battle #
• Snow Tails ^
• Smash Up
• The Pursuit of Happiness ^ #

After All These Years

These are game that fell off the list... after years of repeated play. I felt compelled to say a few words at their passing.

• The City ****
• Mostly replaced by Jump Drive... but it still comes out every once in a while.
• Fast Food Franchise ****
• Missed making the list by one play - it'll be back.
• Machi Koro **
• The bloom is finally off the rose on this one. I need to strip it back to the base box - the expansions have more variety but make it less fun to play.
• Catan *
• It is a fight every year now to get this to the table - I still love the game, but there are a couple of folks in my gaming group who detest it and my oldest son won't touch it with a ten foot pole. Sigh.
• Pandemic Legacy (Season One) *
• We finished Season One - so no surprise this disappeared.
• GUBS: A Game of Wit & Luck *
• My youngest son still loves this game - it could make a return as it's a good 15-20 luckfest he will play before calling it a night.
• Can't Stop **
• This will come back... it always does.