Five & Dime 2009: The Up Escalator

More interesting facts culled by "mi compadre," Senor Joe Huber:

There are 26 games that a higher percentage of respondants list in 2009 than 2008, and a higher percentage in 2008 than 2007. As expected, none of these games are getting a lot of responses, but the steady increase is interesting to note:

• Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball
• Bananagrams
• Glory To Rome
• Lexio
• Container
• Scepter of Zavandor
• Warhammer 40K
• Start Player
• Cosmic Cows
• Twister
• Kakerlakensalat
• Merchant of Venus
• Outpost
• Ligretto/Espresso/Dutch Blitz
• Bongo
• Duck, Duck, Bruce/Kleine Fische
• Once Upon a Time
• Rummikub
• Viva Topo
• Code 777
• Oceania
• Indonesia
• Sticheln
• Chinatown
• Wildlife Adventure/Expedition
• Guillotine

Most of these have just the two straight years of increases, but a couple have more:

• Start Player - 3 years
• Ligretto - 4 years
• Guillotine - 3 years

Guillotine is particularly interesting - after a fairly standard decline from 1998-2001, there were actually a higher percentage of people reporting 5+ plays in 2010 than in 2002.

I would add that the resurgence of some of these games is due to re-release in a new edition and/or language:

• Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball
• Scepter of Zavandor
• Cosmic Cows
• Merchant of Venus (actually the splendid redesign available on the Geek rather than a reprint)
• Duck, Duck, Bruce/Kleine Fische
• Chinatown
• Wildlife Adventure/Expedition