Gobgob read the tutorial. Gobgob still lost to a Vermling.Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion is a standalone co-op fantasy dungeon-crawl board game from Cephalofair Games and designer Isaac Childres, set before the events of the original Gloomhaven. Four new heroes, the Red Guard, Hatchet, Voidwarden and Demolitionist, investigate mysterious disappearances in the city across a 25-scenario campaign. Each turn you pick two ability cards to play, fight monsters, and level up your hero as the story unfolds. A five-scenario tutorial eases new players in.Gobgob's favourite bit: No fiddly map tiles. You play right on the pages of the scenario book, so setup is quick and you get straight to the fighting.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob hired three gnomes. Two of them are unemployed. Oops.Gnomopolis is a quick city-building strategy board game about underground gnomes moving to a brand-new capital deep inside the Great Mountain. Each turn you draw three gnome meeples from a cup and put them to work: build buildings, train gnomes into specialists, hire more workers, earn gold or build mechanical golems. As your city grows, more gnomes move in. At the end, score coins and employed gnomes, and the most points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The gnome cup. You never quite know which gnomes you'll pull out, so every turn is a little puzzle. Just don't leave any gnomes jobless at the end, they cost you.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ About 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is the boss now. Gobgob's split is very fair. For Gobgob.GoodCritters is a sneaky party game from Arcane Wonders, designed by Fabian Zimmermann. You're a crew of criminal critters pulling off heists, and it's time to split the loot. The Boss hands out the swag however they like, but the crew votes on the deal. Don't like your cut? Vote the Boss out and put someone else in charge. The critter with the most valuable stash at the end wins. Lots of bluffing, bargaining and grumbling.Gobgob's favourite bit: The vote. A greedy Boss can get booted in a heartbeat, so you have to bribe just enough critters to stay in charge. Gobgob has never survived a single vote.👥 4–8 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's granny knits the finest scarves in town. Allegedly.Granny Wars: A Game of Tit for Tat is a sneaky card game about cut-throat competitive crafting. Each player is secretly loyal to one of the grannies on the table. Take turns playing point cards from −5 to +5 onto the grannies' piles, boosting your own granny and sabotaging her rivals without giving away whose side you're on. Gold cards add special granny powers. When the cards run out, everyone reveals their loyalty and the granny with the most points wins. There's also a two-player variant.Gobgob's favourite bit: Tit for Tat. Play a card that exactly cancels one already on a pile, and you can bounce that card onto a different granny. Gobgob has sent many a −5 flying.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Was it Colonel Mustard? Does he have a moustache? Gobgob needs answers.Guess Who? Clue Game mashes up two classic Hasbro games. You and your opponent each have a hidden case to solve: the suspect, the weapon and the room where the crime happened. Take turns asking yes-or-no questions about your opponent's cards and flip down everything that doesn't fit on your grid. Narrow it down, then make the right accusation to win. A great family game for young detectives.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's Guess Who? with a murder mystery twist. You're not just hunting for a face any more, you're cracking the whole case, and Gobgob feels very clever about it.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob built a wall. The Picts were not impressed.Hadrian's Wall is a pen-and-paper strategy board game from New Zealand publisher Garphill Games. You're a Roman general in 122 AD, building a fort and a stretch of Hadrian's Wall over six years. Each round you spend workers and resources to tick off boxes on your own sheets, building walls, man the defences, and attract civilians with services and entertainment, all while fending off attacks from the Picts. Earn the most renown, piety, valour and discipline, and avoid disdain, to be crowned Legatus Legionis.Gobgob's favourite bit: Everything chains together. Tick one box and it unlocks another, which grants a bonus, which fills another track. Gobgob loves a good combo, and this game is one big combo.👥 1–6 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+🇳🇿 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 dodged the lava. Then got ghosted by a dino date.Happy Little Dinosaurs is a silly card game from Unstable Games about surviving all of life's little disasters. Each round a Disaster card flips over, whether natural, predatory or emotional, and everyone secretly plays a numbered Point card to grab points or dodge it. Collect too many disasters and your dino is out. Reach 50 points or be the last dino standing to win. Quick, funny and cheeky, it's a great family card game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Instant cards. Play one at just the right moment to tip the odds or save your dino from certain doom. Gobgob saves them for the pit of hot lava.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob got sorted into the snack house.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Trivia Game is a trivia board game based on the first Harry Potter book. Roll the special die, move around the track and answer questions about the story. Get one right and you might earn a handy Charm card; get it wrong and you could end up cursed. Collect six Charm cards, head back to your house common room and answer one final question to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The final question. You've got all six Charms, you're home at your common room, and it all comes down to one last answer. No pressure.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's penguin is stuck on one tiny ice floe. Worth it for the fish.Hey, That's My Fish! is a quick family strategy game designed by Günter Cornett and Alvydas Jakeliūnas. Your penguins slide across a board of hex ice tiles covered in fish. Move a penguin in a straight line, then take the tile it left behind, so the ice shrinks with every turn. Grab the juiciest floes and cut your friends' penguins off from the fish. When no penguin can move, the player with the most fish wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The melting ice. Every move removes a tile, so a well-placed penguin can strand an opponent on a lonely floe. Cute penguins, cold hearts.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's queen bee is surrounded. Gobgob is not okay.Hive is a two-player abstract strategy game from Gen42 Games, designed by John Yianni. There's no board: the chunky bug tiles themselves build the playing area as you go. Each bug moves its own way, from the hopping grasshopper to the climbing beetle. Surround your opponent's queen bee on all six sides to win, while keeping your own queen free. Tough, tactical and easy to throw in a bag.Gobgob's favourite bit: The beetle. It can climb on top of the hive and sit on other bugs, pinning them in place. Gobgob parks one on the enemy queen at every chance.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 9+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob tiptoed past the dragon. The dragon heard.Hoard is a push-your-luck card game about sneaking treasure from a sleeping dragon. Twelve face-down cards circle the dragon, and each turn you do one thing: roll the custom die and move to grab a card, bank a set of treasure for points, soothe or rouse the dragon, or attack a rival with a sword. The dragon wakes up bit by bit, tail to head, and when it's fully awake the round ends. Collect sets, dodge swords and time your escape.Gobgob's favourite bit: Waking the dragon on purpose. If you're ahead, rouse the beast and end the round before anyone can catch up. Gobgob calls it strategy. Everyone else calls it rude.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 10–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Seven monsters, one tiny village. Gobgob has filed a complaint.Horrified is a co-op board game from Ravensburger, designed by Prospero Hall, starring the classic Universal movie monsters: Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein's monster and his Bride. Pick a hero, race around town, guide frightened villagers to safety and gather items to defeat each monster. You all win or lose together, and if the terror level climbs too high, the monsters win. Choose which monsters to face each game, and add more for a tougher night.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every monster needs its own plan. Dracula hides behind coffins you have to smash first, while Frankenstein's monster and the Bride just need a little help being more human. Gobgob relates.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

No running in the halls. Flicking is fine, apparently.ICECOOL is a penguin-flicking dexterity game from Brain Games, designed by Brian Gomez, and winner of the 2017 Kinderspiel des Jahres. The boxes nest together to become a penguin school. Each round one player is the hall monitor, trying to catch everyone, while the other penguins race through the doorways to grab fish. Everyone takes a turn as the catcher, and the most fish wins. A brilliant family game for kids and grown-ups.Gobgob's favourite bit: With the right flick your penguin curves around corners or even jumps clean over a wall. Gobgob mostly spins in circles, stylishly.👥 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

The penguins are back. The hall monitor is tired.ICECOOL2 is the sequel to the award-winning penguin-flicking game from Brain Games, designed by Brian Gomez. It plays on its own or combines with the original ICECOOL. Flick your penguin through the school, grab fish and dodge the catcher. This time the fish cards add trick-shot tasks and a way to move fish around, plus optional tournament scoring. Great family game fun for kids and grown-ups.Gobgob's favourite bit: Put both boxes together and you get new layouts, a new race mode, and room for up to eight flickers. Maximum penguin chaos.👥 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

Gobgob stepped in the lava. Gobgob would like a do-over.Ignite is a fantasy battle board game that mixes deck-building with miniatures on a board you build differently every game. Each player leads three units of a race with its own special ability, and every unit has three hit points. Each card in your hand can be spent for honour to buy better cards, or played for its battle effect, so knowing when to fight and when to invest is everything. Land the final hit on an enemy unit and you keep it as a trophy; most trophies wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The terrain. Forests block arrows but fire spreads through them, water carries freeze and lightning, and anyone pushed into lava is gone on the spot.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 40–160 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube