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.