Gobgob packed for a quick trip to Troy. It has been ten years.Iliad is a strategy game about the siege of Troy. Each player leads Greek heroes into battle, playing cards to strengthen their own army or weaken their rivals' as each siege plays out. After every siege, the strongest players pick victory cards, the table is cleared, and everyone draws fresh cards for the next battle. The first to 12 points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: You keep the cards you didn't play for the next battle, so holding back a strong card now can win you the next siege.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob sees a lot of blue. Gobgob is often wrong.Illusion is a quick card game by Wolfgang Warsch that tests how well you really see colour. Each card shows a colourful pattern, and a target colour is chosen. On your turn, add a new card to the row where you think it fits, from least to most of that colour, or call out the last player if you think they got it wrong. Flip the cards to check. Rules take a minute, so it is great for families.Gobgob's favourite bit: The backs of the cards show the real amounts, so every challenge ends with a big reveal and someone saying "no way".👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has built a pyramid. It is small. It is Gobgob's.Imhotep: The Duel is a two-player building game by Phil Walker-Harding, a head-to-head spin on the Spiel des Jahres-nominated Imhotep. You play Nefertiti and Akhenaten, one of ancient Egypt's most famous royal couples. Place your meeples cleverly to unload the best tiles from six boats, then use them to build your four monuments and earn the most points. Quick to learn and full of tricky choices.Gobgob's favourite bit: Unloading a boat can hand goodies to your opponent's meeples too, so every move is a little 'how much do I help you?' puzzle.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Say it out loud. Now faster. Now faster. Oh!Incohearent is a grown-ups party card game from What Do You Meme?. One player holds up a card of total gibberish, and everyone races to say it out loud until the real phrase pops out, all before the sand timer runs down. Try "thirds teeth or stay" a few times and you will hear "thirsty Thursday". Cards come in three categories, including party and pop culture. Best with a loud group.Gobgob's favourite bit: Watching a whole table chant nonsense at each other, getting louder and louder, until one person yells the answer and everyone groans.👥 2–20 players  |  ⏱ 20–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 17+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob would like it on record that Gobgob did not snap.Infinity Gauntlet: A Love Letter Game is a Marvel card game from Z-Man Games, built on Seiji Kanai's classic Love Letter. One player is Thanos and everyone else teams up as heroes like Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor and Scarlet Witch. On your turn, draw a card and play a card. Heroes combine their powers to knock Thanos down to zero health, while Thanos hunts for the Infinity Stones. Small box, quick rounds, big superhero showdown.Gobgob's favourite bit: Thanos plays his own deck with a two-card hand, and if he gathers all six Infinity Stones, he wins with a snap of his fingers.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob went into the Odd. Gobgob came back with a very strange lamp.Into the Odd is a rules-light tabletop RPG by Chris McDowall, set in a weird fantasy world in an industrial age. Everything centres on Bastion, the only city that matters, and players explore the dangerous ruins beneath and beyond it, from the Underground to the Deep Country. Characters are rolled up fast with three stats, Strength, Dexterity and Willpower, plus Hit Protection. It suits groups who want quick, deadly, old-school style adventures, and GMs who like lots of random tables.Gobgob's favourite bit: Attacks never miss. You just roll damage, so fights are fast and scary. The real treasure is Arcana, strange magical items with odd, story-making powers.📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob's empire is small. Gobgob's plans are not.It's a Wonderful World is a card-drafting, engine-building strategy game by Frédéric Guérard, from La Boîte de Jeu. You lead a growing empire racing to develop faster than your rivals. Each round you draft cards, then choose which to build and which to recycle straight away for resources. Finished buildings join your empire and boost your production every round. It also plays solo, and expansions add a campaign mode.Gobgob's favourite bit: Production happens one resource type at a time, in a set order, so a clever build can feed the next step in the same round. Watching your engine click is very satisfying.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Two merchants. One market. Far too many camels.Jaipur is a fast two-player trading card game by Sébastien Pauchon. You are rival merchants in Jaipur, trying to impress the Maharaja. On your turn, either take cards from the market or sell one type of goods for tokens. Sell early and grab the valuable tokens, or wait and collect a bigger set for a juicy bonus. Win two rounds to earn two Seals of Excellence and the game. An award-winner with plenty of friendly tension.Gobgob's favourite bit: The camels. Take them and you must take every camel in the market, which refills it with fresh goods for your rival. Awkward. But the biggest herd scores a bonus at the end of the round.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Yo ho ho and a hold full of gunpowder.Jamaica is a pirate racing board game from GameWorks, by Malcolm Braff, Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon. Sail around the island in the Great Challenge while loading gold, food and gunpowder into your ship's holds. Detour for buried treasure, board your rivals and steal their loot, and make sure you finish with the most gold. Simple rules and lots of table talk make it a great family game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Each round the captain rolls two dice and decides which is day and which is night. Everyone then secretly picks a card, and the captain's choice can wreck your plans or make them.👥 2–6 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 is going to need a bigger boat.Jaws is a one-versus-many board game from Ravensburger, based on the classic film. One player is the great white shark, and the others play Brody, Hooper and Quint. In Act 1 on Amity Island, the shark hunts swimmers while the crew tries to track it down and keep the beaches safe. Flip the board for Act 2 aboard the Orca, where the crew fights the shark head-on as the boat takes damage. Kill the shark and the crew wins; sink the Orca and the shark does.Gobgob's favourite bit: Two games in one box. How the sneaky hunt of Act 1 goes carries over into the big showdown on the Orca.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob breathed on it. It fell. Gobgob maintains innocence.Jenga is the classic wooden block-stacking game, created by Leslie Scott and published by Hasbro. Build a tower of 54 wooden blocks, then take turns pulling one block out from below and stacking it on top. The tower gets taller and wobblier with every move, and whoever makes it fall loses. A perfect party game and family game for any age that can keep a steady hand.Gobgob's favourite bit: The official one-hand rule. You can poke and tap to find a loose block, but only one hand on the tower at a time. The silence before each pull is magic.👥 1+ players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob made a comic. It is not suitable for Gobgob's nan.Joking Hazard is a party card game from the creators of Cyanide & Happiness, where you build terrible three-panel stick-figure comics. Everyone holds a hand of comic panels. The deck plays the first panel, the judge adds the second, then everyone else plays a card to finish the joke. The judge picks the funniest ending. Dark, silly humour for grown-ups only.Gobgob's favourite bit: The same two panels can end in a dozen completely different punchlines, depending on who plays what. Nobody ever sees it coming.👥 3–10 players  |  ⏱ 30–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 18+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Great minds think alike. In this game, that's a problem.Just One is a co-op party game from Repos Production, designed by Ludovic Roudy and Bruno Sautter, and the 2019 Spiel des Jahres winner. Each round one player shuts their eyes while everyone else secretly writes a one-word clue for the mystery word. Before the guesser looks, any matching clues get wiped out, so you need to be helpful without being obvious. Play through 13 cards together and aim for a perfect score.Gobgob's favourite bit: Five people all write "cheese". Five clues vanish. The guesser stares at an empty table. Gobgob has never laughed harder at a word game.👥 3–7 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob was a dung beetle in a past life. Gobgob is working on it.Karmaka is a competitive card game from the creators of the video game Osmos, played over many lives. Everyone starts as a lowly Dung Beetle and races up the Karmic Ladder towards Transcendence. In each life you score points to climb, play cards for their powers to help yourself or hinder rivals, and tuck good cards into your Future Life to become next life's starting hand.Gobgob's favourite bit: What goes around comes around. Play a card for its power and a rival may take it into their own Future Life, so your clever move can come back to haunt you.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 25–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Kia ora! Gobgob is learning. Slowly. Loudly.Kaupapa is a te reo Māori word description party game with 900 words, from rākau to rangatira. Describe the word on your card and get the other players to guess it. Beginners can use it to pick up new words, and fluent speakers can play fast for a fun, full-immersion game night. A great way to grow your Māori vocabulary while having a laugh.Gobgob's favourite bit: It works at any level, so a whole whānau can play together, whether you are just starting out or already fluent.👥 4+ players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube