Thursday, January 02, 2020

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.

1 comment:

  1. I'm somewhat surprised - since you generally play more games than I do - that I have more long-term nickel and dime games:

    Bridge (24 years)
    1846 (11 years)
    Race (16 years)
    Saint Petersburg (10 years)
    Geschenkt (11 years)
    For Sale (11 years)
    Merchant of Venus (14 years)
    Neos (6 years)

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