Sunday, January 01, 2023

It's Still Personal: Mark's Five & Dime Games for 2022

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 2022).

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 games with two plusses & an asterisk [++*] have been there eleven years. And, believe it or not, there's actually one game that has been on this list for 12 years [++**].

If you're curious, here's the games that have been on my Five & Dime list for 5+ years
  • Race for the Galaxy (12 years)
  • 7 Wonders (7 years)

Quarters
  • My City 36 *
  • Memoir '44 28
Dimes
  • Return to Dark Tower 21
  • Innovation 17
  • Dice Realms 16
  • Heat: Pedal to the Metal 16
  • Trails of Tucana 16 *
  • 7 Wonders: Architects 15
  • Jump Drive 15 +
  • Call to Adventure 14
  • Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale 13 ***
  • Race for the Galaxy 12 ++**
  • Aquamarine 11
  • Ark Nova 11
  • Unmatched: Battle of Legends 11 ***
  • Everdell 10
  • Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North 10 *
  • The Guild of Merchant Explorers 10
Nickels
  • Barenpark 9
  • Can't Stop 9 **
  • Exceed Fighting System 9
  • Challengers! 8
  • It's a Wonderful Kingdom 8
  • Splendor: Marvel 8
  • Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Board Game 7
  • Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write 7
  • Fast Food Franchise 7 **
  • Flamme Rouge 7
  • Lost Ruins of Arnak 7 **
  • Minigolf Designer 7 *
  • Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition 7
  • Undaunted: Normandy 7 *
  • Unfair 7
  • 7 Wonders 6 +**
  • Boonlake 6
  • Dandelions 6
  • Dune: Imperium 6 *
  • For What Remains: Streets of Ruin 6
  • Northgard 6
  • Port Royal 6 *
  • Resist! 6
  • Star Wars: Imperial Assault 6
  • Voyages 6 *
  • Zombicide: Gear Up 6
  • Dead Reckoning 5
  • Era: Medieval Age 5 *
  • Imperium: Classics/Legends 5 *
  • Just One 5 *
  • Marvel Champions: The Card Game 5 ***
  • Marvel: Remix 5
  • Mountain Goats 5
  • Nations: The Dice Game 5
  • Res Arcana 5 ***
  • Roll Player 5 
  • Terraforming Mars 5 **
  • Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition 5 *
  • The City 5 *
  • The Siege of Runedar 5
  • Wreckland Run 5
  • Xia: Legends of a Drift System 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 2023. A dollar sign [$] indicates that the game was on the "Just Missed" list last year.
    • 7 Wonders Duel ^ 
    • Archaeology: The Card Game ^
    • Bullet 
    • DC Comics Deck-Building Game
    • Dungeon Alliance $
    • DungeonQuest 
    • Farkle 
    • Infinity Gauntlet: A Love Letter Game 
    • Key to the Kingdom 
    • Nemo's War (second edition) ^
    • Roll for the Galaxy 
    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.
    • Impact: Battle of Elements
      • Less time with teenagers leads to less Impact/Strike. Sigh.
    • Wurfel Bohnanza 
      • My main opponents (my sons) found other games they wanted to play. It'll be back.