Tuesday, January 04, 2022

It's Still Personal: My Five & Dime Games for 2021

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 2021).

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 for the past 9 years, games with two plusses [++] have been there (wait for it) a decade! ++* And, believe it or not, there's actually one game that has been on this list for 11 years [++*].

If you're curious, here's the games that have been on my Five & Dime list for 5+ years
  • Race for the Galaxy (11 years)
  • 7 Wonders (6 years)
  • 7 Wonders Duel (5 years)
Quarters
  • It's a Wonderful World 30 *
Dimes
  • Imperium Classics/Legends 18
  • CloudAge 17
  • Unmatched: Battle of Legends 15 **
  • Monster Expedition 14
  • My City 14
  • Minigolf Designer 13
  • Race for the Galaxy 13 ++*
  • The City 13
  • Archaeology: The Card Game 12 *
  • Terraforming Mars 12 *
  • Tiny Towns 12 *
  • Dune: Imperium 11
  • Impact: Battle of Elements 11 **
  • Hadrian's Wall 10
  • NEOM 10 **
  • Trails of Tucana 10
Nickels
  • 7 Wonders Duel 9 +
  • Fine Sand 9
  • Lost Ruins of Arnak 9 *
  • Marvel Champions: The Card Game 9 **
  • PARKS 9
  • Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale 8 **
  • Era: Medieval Age 8
  • Port Royal 8
  • Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North 7
  • Jump Drive 7 ****
  • Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition 7
  • Xia: Legends of a Drift System 7
  • 7 Wonders 6 +*
  • Can't Stop 6 *
  • Hallertau 6
  • Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice 6
  • Oh My Goods! 6 *
  • Res Arcana 6 **
  • Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade/Ramp it Up! 6 *
  • Voyages 6
  • Wildlands 6
  • Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg 5 *
  • Fast Food Franchise 5 *
  • Just One 5
  • Nemo's War (second edition) 5
  • Patchwork 5
  • Star Wars: Angriff der Klonkrieger 5
  • Undaunted: Normandy 5
  • War Chest 5
  • Welcome To... 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 2022. A dollar sign [$] indicates that the game was on the "Just Missed" list last year.
    • 6 nimmt! ^
    • Circus Flohcati
    • Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure ^#
    • Draftosaurus
    • Dungeon Alliance $
    • Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Scrawlers - Heroes of Undermountain
    • Kingdom Builder
    • Proving Grounds
    • Rise of Augustus ^
    • Roll for the Galaxy ^
    • Sentinels of the Multiverse $
    • Stomple
    • Strawberry Sunset
    • Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends ^
    • Transformers Deck-Building Game
    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! 6 
      • Clank! 4
      • Clank! In! Space! 2
    • Ticket to Ride 6
      • Ticket to Ride 2 
      • Amsterdam 2
      • London 2 
    • DC Comics Deckbuilding 4
      • DC Comics Deckbuilding 2 
      • Rivals: Batman vs Joker 2
    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.
    • DC Comics Deck-Building Game
      • The only one to fall off this list with a long pedigree (6 years) is DC Deck-Building... which is due to my older son taking his copy of the game off to college - and much less face-to-face gaming with my old gaming group.

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