Gobgob dug too deep. Found rubies. Kept digging.Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a big worker-placement board game by Uwe Rosenberg, from Lookout Games. You lead a family of dwarfs living in a mountain cave. Clear the forest to plant fields and fence pastures for your animals, then dig deeper to carve out mines, workshops and dwellings for a growing family. Every family member is an action, so more dwarfs means more to do. The most efficient home wins, and there's a solo mode too.Gobgob's favourite bit: Arm your dwarfs and send them on expeditions for loot. Every trip makes their weapons a little stronger, so your smallest dwarf can grow into a proper monster-basher. Dogs and donkeys included.👥 1–7 players  |  ⏱ About 30 min per player  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Is the card red? Is it blue? Gobgob won't know until it's played.Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is a quantum trick-taking card game from Bezier Games, designed by Muneyuki Yokouchi. Your cards have numbers but no colours: you declare a card's colour as you play it. Bid how many tricks you'll win, place a token on the shared research board every time you play, and score bonus points for big connected groups of your tokens. The Deluxe Edition adds plastic tokens, recessed boards and a tidy insert.Gobgob's favourite bit: The paradox. Once a number has been claimed in a colour, nobody can claim it again. Get stuck with no legal play and you've created a paradox, which costs you points. Gobgob has broken physics twice.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's owner left for work. Chaos was scheduled for 9:05.Cat Capers is a sneaky family board game from New Zealand publisher Cheeky Parrot Games, designed by Claire Ahuriri and James Dunning. You're a cat with the day to yourself and a whole neighbourhood to explore, but the other cats want the same fun. Over six rounds, secretly split your four paws between the houses on the block (or your basket, for extra cat cards), then reveal and fight it out for each activity card's points.Gobgob's favourite bit: The big paw reveal. Everyone lifts their screens at once and suddenly three cats want the same rat. Cue a cat fight, with sneaky cat cards to tip it your way.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 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 traded sheep for spaceships. No regrets.Catan: Starfarers takes Catan into outer space, from Catan Studio. Explore a galaxy that changes every game, found colonies and spaceports, win over alien peoples and fend off space pirates on your way to victory points. You still collect resources on dice rolls, but now you fly your ships across the stars too, where wormholes, merchants and pirates are waiting.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your mothership is also a shaker. Give it a rattle and it decides how far you fly and whether you hit an encounter. Bolt on boosters to go faster, freight pods for trading and cannons to scare off pirates.👥 3–4 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Yo ho ho and a barrel of molasses. Gobgob's a pirate now.Catan Junior is the kid-friendly, pirate-themed take on Catan from Catan Studio. Roll the die to collect wood, goats, molasses, cutlasses and gold from the islands, then spend them on ships and pirate hideouts to spread across the sea. Simple trading, sturdy tiles instead of cards and a two-player map make it a great first strategy board game for families. Be the first to control seven pirate hideouts to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Ghost Captain. He sails in and stops an island producing anything. Spooky, but polite: unlike the grown-up robber, he never steals your stuff.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Twenty-five years of trading sheep. Gobgob brought party hats.Catan: 25th Anniversary Edition is a shiny celebration box of the classic trading and building board game from Catan Studio. It packs the Catan base game, the 5–6 Player Extension (so up to six can settle the island) and the Helpers of Catan scenario. Roll for resources, trade with the table, build roads, settlements and cities, and race to 10 victory points.Gobgob's favourite bit: The bling. Special iridescent anniversary wooden pieces and dice, resource card sorting trays and card sleeves. Gobgob's settlements have never looked so fancy.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 60+ min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has wood for sheep. Anyone? Anyone?Catan is the classic trading and building board game by Klaus Teuber, from Catan Studio. Build the island from hex tiles (it's different every game), then roll the dice each turn to see which land produces brick, lumber, wool, grain and ore. Trade with the table, build roads, settlements and cities, and be the first to 10 victory points. A Spiel des Jahres winner and a family game night staple.Gobgob's favourite bit: The robber. Roll a 7 and you park him on someone's best hex and pinch a card from them. Gobgob always says sorry. Gobgob is never sorry.👥 3–4 players  |  ⏱ 60+ min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Winter is coming. Gobgob wants a comfy chair and a bowl of soup.Creature Comforts is a cosy worker placement board game by Roberta Taylor, published by Kids Table Board Gaming. Through spring, summer and autumn, you send your woodland animal family into the forest to gather supplies, then spend them on comforts to make your burrow the snuggest spot for winter. The family with the most comfortable den wins. Lovely art and a gentle theme make it a great family game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Fall short of a goal and your critter learns a lesson, so they're better prepared next time. Even bad luck helps. Gobgob has learned many, many lessons.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob put on a fedora and started making deals.Crimopolis is a 1920s gangster strategy board game by Sven Obermaier, published by Cheap Sheep Games. Start as a small-time crook, recruit gangsters, explore the city tile by tile, pull off jobs and take over your rivals' assets to earn prestige. It mixes Euro-style strategy with plenty of direct player conflict, and you can adjust how long the game runs. It won Best Physical Game at the 2020 NZ Games Festival.Gobgob's favourite bit: Ambushes. Jump a rival's gang and you can take over their assets. Gobgob is very sorry. Gobgob is not sorry.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–100 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Flick. Clack. Twenty points. Gobgob lives for the clack.Crokinole is a classic dexterity board game from Canada, dating back to the 1870s. Players take turns flicking wooden discs across a round wooden board, aiming for the high-scoring rings in the middle. A ring of pegs guards the centre, and if an opponent's disc is on the board, your shot has to hit one or it gets removed. Sink a disc in the centre hole for 20 points. A brilliant family game for all skill levels.Gobgob's favourite bit: Knocking your opponent's disc off the board and leaving yours sitting pretty. It's the most satisfying clack in all of board gaming, and Gobgob will not be told otherwise.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Four armies. One planet. Lots of shiny crystals.Cry Havoc is an asymmetric, card-driven area control war game from Portal Games, set on a sci-fi world. Each player commands one of four very different factions, the Humans, Machines, Pilgrims or Trogs, each with its own units and abilities. Move troops, build up your strength and fight over regions rich in precious crystals. The box is packed with 54 miniatures, a big board and over 100 cards.Gobgob's favourite bit: Battles aren't just about who has the most troops. You split your forces between controlling the region, taking prisoners and wearing down the enemy, so you can lose the fight and still come out ahead. Gobgob loses a lot of fights. On purpose. Mostly.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Royal scandal season is here. Gobgob has placed its bets.Cursed Court is a betting and deduction board game by Andrew Hanson, published by Atlas Games. Over three years of royal scandal, you bet your limited influence each season on how the schemes of nine key nobles will turn out. Some information is public, some is secret, and some is shared only between you and one other player. Read the table, back the right nobles and grow your fortune.Gobgob's favourite bit: The secrets you share with another player. You both know something the rest of the table doesn't, so you might end up backing the same scheme. Or not. Gobgob is keeping very quiet.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob will absolutely help you fight the monster. Right up until the last hit.Cutthroat Caverns is a semi-co-op dungeon card game by Curt Covert, published by Smirk & Dagger Games. Your party has to work together to survive nine encounters in the caverns, because if everyone falls, nobody wins. But only the player who lands the killing blow on a monster claims its prestige, so the backstabbing starts early. Survive to the end with the most prestige to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: Kill stealing. Everyone chips away at the monster, then someone sneaks in the final blow and takes all the glory. Gobgob has been on both sides of this. Gobgob prefers the glory side.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Chrome up, choom. Night City is waiting.Cyberpunk RED is the core rulebook for the latest edition of Mike Pondsmith's classic Cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game, from R. Talsorian Games. It's set in 2045, after the 4th Corporate War, and is a prequel to the video game Cyberpunk 2077. This one book has everything players and GMs need: ten Roles, from Rockerboys to Netrunners, the Lifepath system for building your backstory, cyberware, gear, deadly combat and a big guide to Night City.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Lifepath system. Roll up your character's family, friends, enemies and past, and you end up with someone who has a story before the first session even starts.📖 456-page hardcover core rulebook for Cyberpunk RED📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob was dared to do the dishes. Gobgob chickened out.Daring Contest is an adults-only party game from Unstable Games, designed by Ramy Badie. Each round, one player is the judge and everyone else plays cards to pitch the silliest dare they can. If the judge picks yours, you have to do it yourself to score, or chicken out and take a penalty. The judge role rotates so everyone gets a turn. No going outside and nobody gets hurt, just a lot of very strange noises.Gobgob's favourite bit: The self-own. That ridiculous dare you wrote to embarrass everyone else? If the judge loves it, you're the one doing it. Gobgob learned this the hard way.👥 4–8 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 18+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube