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.