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:

• Innovation (now 4.57%)
• Quarriors (now 4.57%)
• Eminent Domain (now 4.57%)
• Roll Through the Ages (now 3.55%)
• Small World (now 3.05%)
• Hansa Teutonica (now 2.54%)
• Alien Frontiers (now 4.57%)
• Thunderstone (now 5.08%)
• Troyes (now 3.05%)
• Tichu (now 5.08%)
• Crokinole (now 5.08%)
• San Juan (now 4.06%)
• Hive (now 4.06%)
• Lost Cities (now 4.57%)
• 6 Nimmt/Category 5/Take 6
• London (now 0.51%)
• Wits & Wagers (now 3.05%)

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…

I also blew the call on Small World – it’ll be interesting to see if a new version of the iOS game will reinvigorate play… but that will have to wait for 2014.

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:

• Trajan will not be back… nor will Ora et Labora.
• Love Letter & Coup are on their way.
• Thanks to a stellar iOS app, Agricola will continue to hang around.