Gobgob picked a tiny word. The tiny word won.A Little Wordy is a clever two-player word game from Exploding Kittens, with art by The Oatmeal. You each get a pile of letter tiles, secretly make a word from them and write it down, then scramble the tiles and swap them. Now try to crack your opponent's word using clue cards (first letter, word length, what it rhymes with and more). The fewer clues you need, the better.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's not about knowing the longest words. Sometimes a short, plain word wins because your brainy opponent overthinks it.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob made a jelly and pickle pie. Rate it honestly.A Matter of Taste is a food-themed party game, designed and published right here in New Zealand. Each round one player is the Chef and cooks up a dish on the board from ingredient and creation cards, some delicious, some deeply suspicious. Everyone then secretly scores the dish. Reveal together, and anyone whose score matches someone else's earns a pizza slice for thinking alike. A laugh-out-loud party game and family game in one.Gobgob's favourite bit: Matching scores wins, not being fancy. The trick is guessing what the table thinks, not what you think. Gobgob's gut says delicious. The crowd says absolutely not.🍕 In the box: a game board, 144 cards and 64 pizza slices, all packed in a pizza box.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+🇳🇿 Made in NZ. Support a local creator!🛒 Grab it from Dice Goblin, online or in-store.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob made a jelly and pickle pie. Rate it honestly.A Matter of Taste is a food-themed party game, designed and published right here in New Zealand. Each round one player is the Chef and cooks up a dish on the board from ingredient and creation cards, some delicious, some deeply suspicious. Everyone then secretly scores the dish. Reveal together, and anyone whose score matches someone else's earns a pizza slice for thinking alike. A laugh-out-loud party game and family game in one.Gobgob's favourite bit: Matching scores wins, not being fancy. The trick is guessing what the table thinks, not what you think. Gobgob's gut says delicious. The crowd says absolutely not.🍕 In the box: a game board, 144 cards and 64 pizza slices, all packed in a pizza box.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+🇳🇿 Made in NZ. Support a local creator!📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob owns 400 books. Gobgob has read 12.A Place For All My Books is a cosy puzzle board game about collecting and organising books, from Smirk & Dagger Games, designed by Alex Cutler and Michael Mihealsick. You're a book lover arranging stacks of books around the rooms of your apartment to finish personal projects. Trips out to the village bookstore, library and shops drain your social battery, so you'll need to stay home, read and admire your collection to recharge. There's a solo mode too, against Penelope Eveready, a tireless extrovert who keeps grabbing the books you want.Gobgob's favourite bit: The social battery. Going out book shopping drains it, and staying in to admire your shelves fills it back up. Gobgob relates deeply.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 40–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+🛒 Grab it from Dice Goblin, online or in-store.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob broke into a biotech tower. For science.Adventure Games: Monochrome Inc. is a co-op story adventure board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Matthew Dunstan and Phil Walker-Harding. Your team sneaks into the headquarters of Monochrome Inc., a biotech company with some nasty secrets. Explore rooms, pick up items, combine them, talk to people and read what happens in the adventure book, like a point-and-click computer game on your table. It plays over three chapters, and your choices steer how the story ends.Gobgob's favourite bit: There's no timer, so take your time, poke at everything and try combining the weirdest items you can find. Gobgob tried combining everything with everything.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 3 chapters, about 75 min each  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob woke up in a dungeon. Again.Adventure Games: The Dungeon is a co-op story adventure board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Phil Walker-Harding and Matthew Dunstan. You all wake up in a medieval prison cell with no memory of how you got there. Explore the old castle's dark rooms, pick up items, combine them and look up what happens in the adventure book, like a classic point-and-click computer game played around the table. Three chapters, and your choices shape the ending.Gobgob's favourite bit: Nothing gets torn up or destroyed, and there's no clock ticking. Just a creepy old castle, a pile of odd items and your whole team arguing about what to try next.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 3 chapters, about 75 min each  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob checked in. Gobgob would like to check out now, please.Adventure Games: The Grand Hotel Abaddon is a co-op story adventure board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Matthew Dunstan, Phil Walker-Harding and Ute Wielandt. You're guests at a grand old hotel where strange things keep happening. Ghosts, or something more rational? Explore the rooms, collect and combine items, question the people you meet and read how the story unfolds in the adventure book. Three chapters, with choices that change where the story goes.Gobgob's favourite bit: The KOSMOS helper app can read the story passages aloud, so nobody spoils a clue by peeking at the next paragraph. Gobgob is a known peeker.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 3 chapters, about 75 min each  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's field trip took a very strange turn.Adventure Games: The Volcanic Island is a co-op story adventure board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Phil Walker-Harding, Matthew Dunstan and Chihiro Mori. You play four uni students on a research trip to a volcanic island, where mysterious things are happening. Explore locations, gather and combine items, solve puzzles and make choices as the story unfolds in the adventure book. How it ends is up to your team.Gobgob's favourite bit: Combining items is where the magic happens. Put two odd finds together, or use one on a location, and see if the story opens a new path. Gobgob's notes now look like a conspiracy wall.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ About 75 min per chapter  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob drank the potion. Science demanded it.Alchemists is a clever deduction and worker placement board game from Czech Games Edition, designed by Matúš Kotry. You're rival alchemists racing to crack the secrets of alchemy. Mix ingredients and test the results with a companion smartphone app that shuffles the rules of alchemy every game, then publish theories to build your reputation. Sell potions, buy magical artefacts, and hope your theories hold up when the truth is revealed at the end.Gobgob's favourite bit: You can test a new potion on your student... or drink it yourself. Gobgob always drinks it. Gobgob regrets nothing (except the side effects).👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob paid the builders in exact change. Gobgob gets another turn.Alhambra: Big Box is the bumper edition of Alhambra, the Spiel des Jahres-winning family board game by Dirk Henn from Queen Games. It's 1278 in Granada, and you're hiring the best builders around to raise towers, gardens, pavilions and arcades for the Alhambra palace. The catch: every builder wants paying in their own currency, so collect the right money cards at the right time, then fit your building tiles into the best palace you can. The Big Box adds expansion modules to the base game for loads of variety.Gobgob's favourite bit: Pay for a building with the exact amount and you get another turn. Gobgob now carries a calculator.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ About 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

One Alice is lovely. A few dozen Alices is a turf war.Alicematic Heroes is an area control and engine-building board game from Japanime Games, designed by Kuro. The Queen of Hearts meant to summon one Alice to rebuild Wonderland, and summoned whole armies of them by mistake. Lead your team of Alices: summon them from your hand to power up your five colours, then invade territories on a modular hex map to score points.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every Alice has a Megalomania power that fires when you summon her. Can't afford one? Play her face down as a commoner to build up your colours instead.👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–80 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob died last Tuesday. Gobgob is feeling much better now.Altered Carbon - The Roleplaying Game is the core rulebook for the tabletop RPG set in the world of Altered Carbon, from Hunters Entertainment. Play anyone from socialites to soldiers in the neon-soaked streets of Bay City, from the grimy Underground to the gleaming Atrium. It runs on the Hazard System, built just for this game, with zone-based combat, exotic high-tech weapons and gritty sci-fi noir mysteries where even the GM might not know whodunit at the start. Great for players and GMs who love cyberpunk and detective stories.Gobgob's favourite bit: Death isn't the end. If your body gets wrecked, your character's digital consciousness can be moved into a brand new sleeve, memories and all.📖 Core rulebook · Hazard System📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob would like everyone to stay calm. There is a dragon.Andor: The Family Fantasy Game is a co-op family board game from Thames & Kosmos, set in the world of Legends of Andor. Pick a hero (magician, warrior, archer or dwarf) and team up to rescue the lost wolf cubs from the dwarven mine. First you'll need to finish the tasks set by Mart, the old bridge guard, before he lets you cross, and all the while a sly dragon creeps towards Rietburg castle.Gobgob's favourite bit: The dragon is the clock. It keeps creeping closer to the castle, so the whole team has to plan together and move fast. Gobgob votes to run.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob hacked the mainframe. The mainframe hacked back.Android: Netrunner is an asymmetric two-player card game from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Richard Garfield and Lukas Litzsinger. In a cyberpunk future, one player is a giant megacorporation guarding its secret agendas behind layers of "ice", and the other is a lone hacker, the Runner, breaking in to steal them. First to seven agenda points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Corp plays its cards face down. Is that server hiding a juicy agenda, or a nasty trap? The Runner has to decide whether to risk the run. Gobgob always runs. Gobgob flatlines a lot.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube