Tuesday, January 02, 2024

It's Still Personal: Mark's Five & Dime Games for 2023

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 2023).

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: Next Station: London & Tokyo, Ascension, etc.) are not counted. (Both of those would be 50+ plays 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, games with two plusses & an asterisk [++*] have been there eleven years, and games two plusses & two asterisks [++**] have been that has been on this list for 12 years. And, believe it or not, there's actually one game that has been on this list for 13 years [++***].

If you're curious, here's the games that have been on my Five & Dime list for 5+ years
  • Race for the Galaxy (13 years)
  • 7 Wonders (8 years)
  • Jump Drive (6 years)


Dollars
  • Memoir '44 104 *
Quarters
  • Jump Drive 32 +*
Dimes
  • Thunder Road: Vendetta 20
  • Unmatched: Battle of Legends 20 ****
  • Race for the Galaxy 20 ++***
  • 7 Wonders: Architects 16 *
  • Clank! Catacombs 14
  • 7 Wonders 11 +***
  • Can't Stop 11 ***
  • Minigolf Designer 11 **
  • Mosaic: A Story of Civilization 11
  • Return to Dark Tower 11 *
  • Heat: Pedal to the Metal 10 *
  • It's a Wonderful World 10
  • Legacy of Yu 10
  • The Red Dragon Inn 10
Nickels
  • DC Comics Deck-Building Game 9
  • Dead Reckoning 8 *
  • Eleven: Football Manager Game 8
  • Empyreal: Spells & Steam 8
  • Kabuto Sumo 8
  • Legendary: A Marvel Deck-Building Game 8
  • Call to Adventure 7
  • Daybreak 7
  • Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition 7 *
  • Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition 7 **
  • Ark Nova 6 *
  • Bad Company 6
  • Dice Realms 6 *
  • Everdell 6 *
  • My City: Roll & Build 6
  • Cape May 5
  • Dune: Imperium 5 **
  • Great Western Trail: New Zealand 5
  • Innovation 5 *
  • Meeples & Monsters 5
  • Res Arcana 5 ****
  • StreetSoccer 5
  • Trails of Tucana 5 **
  • Tucana Builders 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.
    • After Us 
    • Faraway #
    • Gnadenlos!
    • Marrakech
    • Marvel Champions: The Card Game 5 ^
    • Marvel United: X-Men
    • Marvel: Remix
    • Midnight Party
    • Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 #
    • Pioneer Rails #
    • Tenpenny Parks
    • War Chest
    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.
    • Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale
      • Played a lot solo on the app (which is quite good) - not as much on paper
    • Fast Food Franchise
      • Obviously, something is wrong in the universe. This will be corrected.
    • Lost Ruins of Arnak
      • Kept waiting to play until I picked up the new expansion... won't make that mistake again.
    • Terraforming Mars
      • This is another one that will see more table time this year with my bigger table.

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