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Five & Dime 2012: Nickels (5+ plays)
Just out of the running (with 5.58%): Dixit, Last Will & Puerto Rico[*indicates that it fell off the top 25 from last year]Dropped off the table this year:
My deck-builder prediction fu was completely off – while Dominion continues to stick around & Ascension crawled into the top 25, a number of others dropped off (including a personal favorite, Eminent Domain). Quarriors! left – which I called.
Next year, I think we’ll see DC Deckbuilding & Legendary show up…
Agricola continues to be the Energizer Bunny of “heavy” games – there’s something very special about a game with that much complexity hanging around on the Five & Dime lists for this long.
Here’s how I did predicting last year: I was right about Alien Frontiers & Hansa Teutonica leaving. Friday did show up, but not Wurfelspiel Bohnanza. Pandemic did show back up, as did the long-promised 2nd expansion – and while Alien Artifacts only reached us the day before Christmas, Race for the Galaxy did quite well.
My predictions for this year:
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follower of Jesus, husband, father, pastor, boardgamer, writer, Legomaniac, Disneyphile, voted most likely to have the same Christmas wish list at age 57 as he did at age 7