Monday, January 02, 2012

Five & Dime 2011: This Time It's Personal

Here's my own personal Five & Dime list (the games I've played 5+ and 10+ times in 2011). As I did last year, I decided to break the games into three categories. (Games with an asterisk [*] were on my Five & Dime list last year... and games with two asterisk [**] have been on my list for the past two years.)
 
Face-to-Face (not predominately with kids)

DIMES
  • Summoner Wars 41 (10 with the Master Set)
  • Memoir '44 27 *
  • 7 Wonders 19
  • Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age 16 **
  • Numeri 15
  • Race for the Galaxy 12 *
  • Abandon Ship 10
  • City Square Off 10
  • Heroscape 10 *
  • Scrabble 10
NICKELS
  • DungeonQuest 9 **
  • Space Hulk: Death Angel - The Card Game 9
  • Tannhäuser 9
  • Claustrophobia 8
  • Castle Panic 7 *
  • Catacombs 7 *
  • Flowerpower 7
  • Small World 7 **
  • Ticket to Ride 7
  • Ascending Empires 6
  • Cargo Noir 6
  • The Downfall of Pompeii 6 *
  • Loopin' Louie 6
  • The Ares Project 5
  • Battleship Galaxies: The Saturn Offensive 5
  • Clash of the Gladiators 5
  • Fresco 5
  • Pandemic 5
  • Risk: Legacy 5
  • The Rivals for Catan 5
  • The Struggle for Catan 5
  • To Court the King 5
  • Zooloretto 5
Online (games played versus online players through yucata.de, mastermoves.eu, brettspielwelt.de & Michael Schacht's site)

NICKELS
  • Web of Power/China 6
Kids (played primarily with kids)

DIMES
  • GUBS: A Game of Wit and Luck 13
  • Animal Upon Animal: Balancing Bridge 11
NICKELS
  • Monster 4 9
  • The Magic Labyrinth 8 *
  • Funny Bunny 7
  • Heckmeck Junior 7
  • Kinder Bunnies: Their First Adventure 7
  • LEGO Heroica 6
  • Hop Hop Hooray! 6 **
  • Inspektor Hase 6
  • Cars 2 Sorry Sliders: World Grand Prix Race Edition 5
  • Gib Gummi! 5
  • Knock Your Blocks Off 5
  • Walter Wick Can You See What I See? 5 **
  • Whoowasit? 5

4 comments:

SuperEliteGames said...

Wow that's an incredible list.
Did you really play, some of them, 10+ times?

Mark (aka pastor guy) said...

Yep... the numbers you see listed are actual plays.

I have a 10 year old son who loves board games... and a regular gaming group that meets for 5-6 hours each week. In addition, I get to some game gatherings which bump up my numbers.

SchrefflerFamily said...

Do you ever play the same game over and over with your kids?

There are games DS got for Christmas that we've already played over 5 times and are approaching 10. (I don't keep track so I can't give you exact numbers. But when you play 3 games in one evening it doesn't take long...)

And that's just with a few nights of play! We're probably almost to 50 over the last year on Haba Orchard!

Mark (aka pastor guy) said...

Yep, over & over. I'm guessing that 25 of my plays of Summoner Wars were with my 10 year old. Gubs was like that as well.

But because of review copies, we have a pretty steady flow of new(er) games into the house... so those enthusiasms don't seem to last forever.

However, if I'd play LEGO Ninjago every day, they'd be happy to. :-)