It's Still Personal: Mark's Five & Dime Games for 2020

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 2020).

As always, I include only face-to-face games and games played with human opponents over apps/online. What that means is that games that I play only solo via an app or website (examples: Welcome To..., Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write) are not counted. (Both of those would be dimes if I did.)

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

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

• Race for the Galaxy (10 years)
• 7 Wonders (5 years)
• DC Comics Deckbuilding Game (6 years)

Half Dollars

• Unmatched: Battle of Legends 63 *

Dimes

• Can't Stop 24
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game 24 *
• Oh My Goods 18
• Race for the Galaxy 18 ++
• Terraforming Mars 18
• 7 Wonders Duel 15 ****
• NEOM 14 *
• Under Falling Skies 13
• Jump Drive 12 ***
• It's a Wonderful World 11
• Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade 11
• Archaeology: The Card Game 10
• Butterfly 10
• Dice Settlers 10
• Expedition to Newdale 10
• Memoir '44 10 **
• Res Arcana 10 *
• Rise of Augustus 10
• Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends 10
• Warp's Edge 10

Nickels

• Impact: Battle of Elements 9 *
• Ticket to Ride 9
• Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure 8 ***
• DC Comics Deck-Building Game (includes Multiverse, Teen Titans & Forever Evil) 8 +*
• Machi Koro Legacy 8
• Roll for the Galaxy 8 ****
• The 7th Continent 8
• Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale 7 *
• Downforce 7
• Fill or Bust 7
• Heroclix 7
• Roll Player 7 *
• Sanctum 7
• Silver & Gold 7
• 7 Wonders 6 +
• Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg 6*
• Marrakech 6
• Nations: The Dice Game 6
• The Pursuit of Happiness 6
• 6 Nimmt! 5
• Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2nd ed.) 5
• Fast Food Franchise 5
• Friday 5 *
• Lost Ruins of Arnak 5
• Mystery Rummy: Escape from Alcatraz 5
• Nemo Rising: Robur the Conquerer 5
• New Frontiers 5 *
• Paleo 5
• Roll for Adventure 5
• Star Wars: Outer Rim 5
• The Taverns of Tiefenthal 5
• Ticket to Ride: London 5
• Tiny Towns 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 2021.  (Note: I was actually right about all the games I listed as returning last year... 3 for 3!) A dollar sign [$] indicates that the game was on the "Just Missed" list last year.

• Core Worlds: Empires #
• Dungeon Alliance ^#
• Dungeon Dice
• Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar
• Luck Plus
• northgard
• Palm Island
• Seafall 
• Sentinels of the Multiverse ^
• Shards of Infinity ^
• Skip-Bo 
• The Crew
• The Quest for El Dorado ^#

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.

• Ticket to Ride 16
• Ticket to Ride 9 
• Amsterdam 1
• New York 1
• London 5 
• DC Comics Deckbuilding 14
• DC Comics Deckbuilding 8 
• Rivals: Batman vs Joker 3
• Rivals: Green Lantern vs Sinestro 1
• Confrontations 2
• Clank! 13 
• Clank! 8
• Clank! In! Space! 5
• Mystery Rummy 9
• Al Capone 3
• Escape from Alcatraz 5 
• Wyatt Earp 1
• Catan 2
• Catan 1
• The Starfarers of Catan 1

After All These Years

These are games that fell off the list... after years of repeated play. I felt compelled to say a few words at their passing.

• Star Realms +
• The only one to fall off this with a long pedigree (5 years) is Star Realms... which is likely due to less waiting in lines as a family. (The app saw a lot of use over the years.)

How Did You Play All Those Games?

That's the subject of another couple of posts... suffice it to say that having my college age son home from mid-March to August and all of December definitely upped the numbers, as did a big increase in solo play.

• Want to know more about solo gaming? Read my most recent update to Solo Gaming in a Time of Covid-19 (End of 2020 Update).
• Want to see the 'wide view' statistics and some more detailed explanation about why I played so many games of, say, Unmatched? Read my post Mark's 2020 Gaming: The Big Picture.