It's Still Personal: Mark's Five & Dime Games for 2019

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 2019).

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, games with a plus and three asterisks [+***] have been there 8 years... and games with a plus and four asterisks [+****] have been there (wait for it) for the past 9 years!

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

• Race for the Galaxy (9 years)
• Sentinels of the Multiverse (7 years)
• DC Comics Deckbuilding Game (5 years)
• Star Realms (5 years)

Dimes

• Impact: Battle of Elements 21
• Wurfel Bohnanza 19 *
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game 16
• Unmatched: Battle of Legends 16
• New Frontiers 14
• Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg 13
• Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure 12 **
• Jump Drive 12 **
• NEOM 12
• Star Realms 12 +
• Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated 11
• Roll Player 11
• Shards of Infinity 11
• Memoir '44 10 *
• Roll for the Galaxy 10 ***
• Wildlands 10

Nickels

• Nemo's War 9
• Call to Adventure 8
• DC Comics Deck-Building Game (includes Multiverse, Teen Titans & Forever Evil) 8 +
• Res Arcana 8
• Sagrada 8
• Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale 7
• DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Rivals - Green Lantern vs Sinestro 7
• Dice Throne 7
• Dungeonquest 7
• Friday 7
• Race for the Galaxy 7 +****
• Star Wars: Destiny 7
• 7 Wonders 6 ****
• 7 Wonders Duel 6 ***
• Catan (includes Rise of the Inkas) 6 *
• Heroscape 6
• Sentinels of the Multiverse 6 +**
• Suburbia 6
• Dungeon Alliance 5 *
• Football Highlights 2052 5
• Ice Cool 5
• Millennium Blades 5
• The Quest for El Dorado 5 *
• Sports Dynasty 5
• Teen Titans GO! Deck-Building Game 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 2020.  (Note: I was wrong about all the games I listed as returning last year... 0 for 3. Let's see if I do better this year.) A dollar sign [$] indicates that the game was on the "Just Missed" list last year.

• Aargh!
• Animal Upon Animal
• Betrayal Legacy ^
• Gelini Nightlife
• Heroes of Terrinoth
• Monster Lands
• Mystery Rummy: Al Capone $
• Pokemon Trading Card Game
• Rhino Hero: Super Battle ^
• Roll for Adventure #
• Star Wars: Outer Rim #
• Ticket to Ride #

Family Time

There are certain game systems that don't always show up in these lists unless you list them as a group... I thought I'd honor those games this year.

• Clank! 26
• Clank! 12
• Clank! Legacy 11
• Clank! In! Space! 3
• DC Comics Deckbuilding 17
• DC Comics Deckbuilding 8
• Rivals: Green Lantern vs Sinestro 7
• Confrontations 2
• Mystery Rummy 10
• Al Capone 4
• Escape from Alcatraz 3
• Wyatt Earp 2
• Jekyll & Hyde 1
• Ticket to Ride 7
• Ticket to Ride 4
• New York 2
• London 1
• Catan 6
• Catan 4
• Rise of the Inkas 2

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.

• Descent: Journeys in the Dark **
• The common theme this year is "oldest son going away for college"... which explains the drop-off in Descent play. I need to roll the app back out and play solo.
• Clank! In! Space! *
• We still played a lot of Clank!... just not the sci-fi version. The addition of the Cyberstation expansion should bring it back to the table for at least 5 plays this year.
• Flamme Rouge *
• This only comes out with 5-6 folks now... excellent game but I'm mostly playing with groups of 2-4.
• Trains *
• I like this better than everyone else in my family... and prefer it to Dominion. I need to bring it to game nights.