It's Still Personal: My Five & Dime Game Lists for 2018

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 2018).

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, games with a plus and two asterisks [+**] have been there 7 years... and games with a plus and three asterisks [+***] have been there (wait for it) for the past 8 years!

If you're curious, here's the games that have been on my Five & Dime list for 5+ years

• Race for the Galaxy (8 years)
• Sentinels of the Multiverse (6 years)

Quarters

• Star Realms 26 ****

Dimes

• Clank! In! Space! 21 *
• Jump Drive 21 *
• Race for the Galaxy 20 +***
• Sentinels of the Multiverse 19 +*
• DC Comics Deck-Building Game (includes Multiverse, Teen Titans & Forever Evil): 18 ****
• Team Play 17
• Ticket to Ride 16 *
• Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar 13
• 7 Wonders Duel 12 **
• Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure 12 *
• Powerships 12
• DC Deck-Building Game: Confrontations 11
• Memoir '44 11

Nickels

• Flamme Rouge 9 *
• Hero Realms 9
• Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization 9
• 7 Wonders 8 ***
• Magic Maze 8
• Alien Artifacts 7
• Archaeology: The Card Game 7
• Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 7 *
• Rhino Hero: Super Battle 7
• Space Beans 7
• The Quest for El Dorado 7
• Wasteland Express Delivery Service 7
• Zirkus Flohcati 7 *
• Betrayal Legacy 6
• Broom Service: The Card Game 6
• Catan 6
• Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2nd edition) 6 **
• Dungeon Alliance 6
• Favor of the Pharaoh 6
• Las Vegas 6
• Nations: The Dice Game 6
• Novo Dice 6
• Ticket to Ride: New York 6
• Downforce 5
• Eminent Domain 5
• Escape from 100 Million B.C. 5
• Fast Food Franchise 5
• Roll for the Galaxy 5 **
• Sequence 5
• StreetSoccer 5
• The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game 5
• Tiny Epic Quest 5
• Trains 5 *
• Wurfel Bohnanza 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 2019.

• Bohnanza #
• Bounce-It-In Game
• Colt Express
• Fabled Fruit ^
• Fast Forward: Fortune
• Gingerbread House #
• Hit Z Road
• Hotshots ^
• Karuba
• Liar's Dice
• Mystery Rummy: Al Capone
• Neuroshima Hex
• Port Royal ^#
• The Colonists
• The Resistance
• Tiny Epic Defenders (2nd edition) 

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.

• Codenames *
• We had a couple of years of playing this a lot - but now it only comes out at family gatherings.
• DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Rivals - Batman vs The Joker *
• Teen Titan Go! Deckbuilding and Shards of Infinity are the new 2 player flavors of the month... we've probably played out Batman v Joker (though it's still a really good game).
• Skip-Bo *
• My oldest has had a number of bad experiences playing this - so, despite the pleading of his mother & girlfriend, I don't think this one will see the light of day any time soon.
• Summoner Wars +*
• Probably the saddest loss - this was a staple game for myself and the boys... but our huge collection sits there at 2-3 plays a year now.