Kia ora! This is your pass to the Dice Goblin board game library: more than 500 games to take home, keep as long as you like and swap whenever you want, in the Lair or by post anywhere in New Zealand. Plans Grab: 1 game at home at a time, $30 a month Stash: 3 games at home at a time, $60 a month Hoard: 5 games at home at a time, $75 a month Every plan includes the whole library, unlimited swaps, swaps by post and three-day holds. Billing is monthly from the day you join, and you can cancel any time before your next billing date. How it works Join online. Pick your plan and check out. Borrow a game. Find it on the library shelves in the Lair and check it out with its barcode, or ask us to post it. Play as long as you like. There are no due dates while you're a member. Swap whenever. Bring it back and take the next one. Postal swaps go out every Thursday, and requests in by 10am Thursday go out that day. Good to know Ask us to hold a game and we'll keep it for you until 12pm three days later. Postage out is charged at our normal website shipping rates, and you pay to post games back. A few rare games stay in the Lair, to play at a table. Tell us at the counter if a piece is missing when you borrow a game, so it isn't charged to you. Missing pieces or damage can be charged up to the game's RRP, unless staff waive it. Please read the library membership terms before you join.

Round and round and round. Gobgob is dizzy and delighted.Monsieur Carrousel is a co-op game for little ones from LOKI, designed by Sara Zarian. Work together to get all the kids onto the carousel before the rain comes. Roll the colour die, pop a wooden kid token onto a matching seat, then give the carousel a spin. Land in the sunshine and you add a ray of sun; land in the rain and a raindrop falls. Six seating discs let you make it easier or trickier as kids grow.Gobgob's favourite bit: Monsieur Carrousel points at a seat and you have to remember who is sitting there. Tiny memory test, huge cheers when you get it right.👥 1–6 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 4+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob just wanted the cheese. The cat had other ideas.Viva Topo! is a family board game by Manfred Ludwig, and a Kinderspiel des Jahres (Children's Game of the Year) winner. Race your mice around the track towards the cheese, where the further a mouse goes, the bigger the prize. But a hungry cat is prowling right behind, and any mouse it catches is out of the game. Do you duck in early for a small bite, or keep running for the big wheel of cheese?Gobgob's favourite bit: The special die. It rolls 1, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, and every 1 also moves the cat. Once the cat has gone around the track it speeds up, and that's when the squeaking starts.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 4+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has had four coffees. Gobgob is ready to roll.VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game (VivaJava Dice for short) is a dice game that follows on from VivaJava: The Coffee Game. You work at the VivaJava Coffee Co., hunting the globe for the best beans. Each round you use the dice in your pool to either blend beans into a best-selling coffee for quick points, or put them into research for new dice tricks and new ways to score. Blends lose their shine over time, so it's a press-your-luck race to cash in at just the right moment.Gobgob's favourite bit: Rolling together. You can team up with other players to roll and blend, which can shoot you up the scoreboard, but whoever you help might ride your coattails all the way to the top. Gobgob trusts nobody before its morning coffee.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 20–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Flip phones, frosted tips and a whole lot of trivia. Gobgob remembers.Trivial Pursuit: 2000s is a decade edition of Hasbro's classic trivia board game, all about the 2000s. Questions cover Places, Entertainment, Events, The Arts, Science & Tech, and Sports & Hobbies. Collect a wedge in every colour, then answer a final question to win. Great for game night with friends and family who lived through the noughties.Gobgob's favourite bit: The "stump your opponents" twist. You can see the topic at the top of each card, so if you think you'll flop, hand the question to a rival instead and watch them squirm. Gobgob stumps everyone on reality TV.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 16+📦 In the box: 300 trivia cards with 1,800 questions across 6 categories.📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob peeked round the corner. Wrong colour. Gobgob got spotted.Tannhäuser is a squad-based miniatures skirmish board game set in a dark alternate 1949, where the Great War never ended and occult forces are in play. First published by Take On You and later by Fantasy Flight Games, it pits the commandos of the Union against the Reich's occult division in tense battles through crypts and fortresses. Build your team from heroes and troopers, kit them out with weapon, equipment and power tokens, then move, shoot and brawl your way to the objectives.Gobgob's favourite bit: The pathfinding system. Every space on the board is marked with coloured circles, and if two figures share a colour, they can see and shoot each other. No tape measures, no arguments. Just a lot of Gobgob hiding in the wrong colour.👥 2–10 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 11+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's head is the same size as its body. Finally, a game that gets it.Super Dungeon Explore is a dungeon crawler board game inspired by classic Japanese console RPGs, with cute chibi-style miniatures. Up to five players team up as fantasy heroes like a paladin, a dwarf fighter or an elf ranger, while one player becomes the Dark Consul and runs the dungeon's monsters. Fight through modular dungeon boards, grab loot and treasure to power up, smash the monster spawning points and take down the dungeon boss. This copy comes with expansions.Gobgob's favourite bit: Loot. Every time the heroes wound a monster they can draw loot cards, and treasure chests hold even better goodies. Meanwhile the Dark Consul has an endless supply of monsters. It's a proper old-school video game grind.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob pressed all the buttons at once. It was not a combo.Street Masters is a co-op miniatures board game inspired by classic arcade fighting games, designed by Adam and Brady Sadler. Pick your fighters, each with their own deck of moves, and team up to take down villainous factions of The Kingdom across a range of stages and scenarios. The box is packed with more than 65 detailed miniatures, plus custom dice.Gobgob's favourite bit: Two ways to play. Arcade Mode lets you mix and match any fighters, bosses and stages. Story Mode lets your wins, losses and choices unlock the story behind The Kingdom.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 45–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

"Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!" Gobgob has been waiting all week to say that.Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases is the classic co-op deduction game, originally by Gary Grady, Suzanne Goldberg and Raymond Edwards, published by Space Cowboys. There's no board, no dice and no luck, just your brains against the case. Using a map of Victorian London, a directory and the day's newspapers, you choose where to go and who to interview, read the leads, then answer the questions and compare your score with Holmes himself. Why were two lions murdered in Hyde Park? Who pinched the paintings from the National Gallery? Ten cases to crack.Gobgob's favourite bit: The newspaper. It's easy to skip, but the clue that cracks the case is often sitting right there in the headlines.👥 1–8 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has joined the Irregulars. Gobgob is very good at lurking.Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars is a standalone co-op deduction game from Space Cowboys, written by Dave Neale. In 1880, Holmes hired a gang of street kids as his unofficial police force, and you play them over one very eventful year. Walk the foggy streets of London using the map, directory and newspapers, question witnesses, chase leads, then answer the case questions and compare your score with the master detective. Ten cases, including introductory ones that are perfect for new sleuths, plus some mechanical surprises for seasoned investigators.Gobgob's favourite bit: Playing the scrappy kids instead of Holmes. Nobody notices an urchin, which makes the snooping extra sneaky.👥 1–8 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob sent for Holmes. Holmes is busy. Gobgob will do it.Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Carlton House & Queen's Park is a standalone co-op deduction game from Space Cowboys with 10 cases of varying difficulty. There's no board and no dice, just you and your fellow detectives with a map of Victorian London, a directory, newspapers and a casebook. Choose where to go and who to question, read what you find, and follow the leads. When you think you've cracked it, answer the questions and compare your score with Holmes himself. This box ventures into new locations, including the fancy Carlton House and the not-so-peaceful Queen's Park, and includes two classic, long out-of-print cases, revised and updated.Gobgob's favourite bit: Comparing notes with Holmes at the end. He always solves it in a handful of visits. Gobgob took seventeen and interviewed the same cabbie twice.👥 1–8 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Zombies, werewolves and bandits. Gobgob packed a spare shovel.Shardhunters is a fantasy card game set in the Unseen Domains, a gloomy take on 17th-century Europe where victims of a witch-plague come back as zombies. Rare blood crystals are the most precious thing around, and bold adventurers called Shardhunters brave the wilds to find them. Spend crystals to hire heroes from the tavern deck, use their special skills to gather even more crystals, and send them off on quests against the monsters. The first player to gather seven adventurers and then complete a successful quest wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The battles. Everyone plays their monster cards at the same time, and each one only has a value and a colour, so it is fast, sneaky and all about reading your opponents.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is ready! Gobgob is ready! (Gobgob is not ready.)SpongeBob Card Scramble! is a family board game set in Bikini Bottom. Move your character around a SpongeBob-themed board by collecting and matching sets of cards. Action cards can help you along or slow your rivals down, and you can trade cards with other players to finish your sets. Be the first to complete your collection and make it all the way around the board.Gobgob's favourite bit: The trading. Everyone's hunting for the same cards, so a friendly swap can turn into some very serious Krusty Krab-level haggling.👥 2–4 players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Ready, set, flick! Gobgob is already in the barrier.PitchCar is a wooden flicking race game from Ferti, designed by Jean du Poël. Build a racetrack out of wooden track pieces, pick your little wooden car disc, then take turns flicking it around the course. Safety rails help keep you on the road, but fly off the track and you lose ground. First across the finish line wins. Easy enough for kids, sneakily competitive for grown-ups, and a brilliant family game or party game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The track is different every time. The base box builds a course almost four metres long, and you can rearrange the pieces into new layouts. Expansions add jumps, loops, crossroads and more.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob found the treasure map. Gobgob did not read the bit about dinosaurs.Pirates vs. Dinosaurs is a push-your-luck adventure board game by Richard Launius, co-designer of Arkham Horror. Each player captains a crew of pirates hunting for buried treasure on a forgotten island. Kit out your crew with weapons and gear, pick the part of the island to search (the jungle is slower than the beach), then hunt down your pieces of the map. Rival captains can throw dinosaurs and other mayhem your way, and the island is slowly sinking.Gobgob's favourite bit: Digging up the loot. You pull treasure from a bag, hoping to dodge the pirate ghost and the island-sinking events, then decide whether to grab one more or run for the ship. Gobgob always grabs one more.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 11+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube