Here's my own personal Five & Dime list (the games I played 5+ and 10+ times in 2025). I may have stopped collecting the Five & Dime stats for everyone else - but I haven't stopped collecting my own!
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, Ascension, Draft & Write Records, etc.) are not counted. (All three of those would be 50+ plays if I did.)
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, Ascension, Draft & Write Records, etc.) are not counted. (All three of those would be 50+ plays if I did.)
Games with an asterisk [*] were on my Five & Dime list last year. Each asterisk indicates another year... and each plus sign indicates five years! Believe it or not, there's actually one game that has been on this list for 15 years [+++].
If you're curious, here's the games that have been on my Five & Dime list for 5+ years
- Race for the Galaxy (15 years)
- Jump Drive (8 years)
- Unmatched: Batlle of Legends (6 years)
- Can't Stop (5 years)
Dollars
- Memoir '44 134 ***
Quarters
- Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread 38
Dimes
- Unmatched: Battle of Legends 16 +*
- Clank! Catacombs 12
- Flamme Rouge 12
- Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West 12
- Can't Stop 11 +
- Undaunted 2200: Callisto 11
- Distilled 10 *
- Lost Ruins of Arnak 10 *
- Path of Civilization 10 *
- Pirates of Maracaibo 10 *
Nickels
- Endeavor: Deep Sea 9
- Galactic Cruise 9
- It's a Wonderful World 9
- Race for the Galaxy 9 +++
- Sniper Elite: The Board Game 9
- Terraforming Mars 8 *
- Fast Food Franchise 7 *
- Heat: Pedal to the Metal 7 ***
- Heroscape 7 *
- Jump Drive 7 +***
- New Frontiers 7 *
- Small World 7
- Thunder Road: Vendetta 7
- World Wonders 7
- 7 Wonders: Architects 6 ***
- 7 Wonders Duel 6
- Ancient Knowledge 6 *
- Minigolf Designer 6 ****
- Return to Dark Tower 6 ***
- Ticket to Ride & City versions 6 *
- Sea Salt & Paper 6
- SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 6
- Tales of the Arthurian Knights 6
- The Guild of Merchant Explorers 6
- Canopy: Evergreen 5
- Draft & Write Records 5
- Dune: Imperium & Uprising 5 ****
- Everdell 5 ***
- Fill or Bust 5
- In the Footsteps of Darwin 5
- Innovation 5
- Let's Go To Japan 5 *
- Lost Cities 5
- Rise 5
- Roll for the Galaxy 5
- Unstoppable 5
- Waypoints 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 2026. A dollar sign [$] indicates that the game was on the "Just Missed" list last year.
- 7 Wonders Dice 4
- Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition
- Buffet Boss #
- Cabanga!
- Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers
- Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale ^
- DC Comics Deck-Building Game $
- Fishing
- Fliptoons
- Great Western Trail: El Paso
- Hamlet: The Village Building Game #
- Marvel Champions: The Card Game
- Pixies
- River Valley Glassworks ^
- Sanctuary #
- Spooktacular
- The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth ^
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.
- 7 Wonders
- After nine years, this classic game dropped out of the Five & Dime (despite playing it just last week!). I will need to fix this in 2026 - it's too good to leave behind.
- Yeah, there was just this one that dropped off despite being played year after year. Don't know if that's good or bad. :-)
