Gobgob rolled a zero. Gobgob is thrilled. Read on.Lost Cities: Roll & Write is a quick family dice game from Kosmos and designer Reiner Knizia, based on his classic card game Lost Cities. The active player rolls three colour dice and three number dice, picks one of each and marks that number in that colour's column on their expedition sheet. Everyone else then picks from what's left. Numbers in each column can only go up, so every choice counts. Push your expeditions far to score big, but a stalled one costs you points.Gobgob's favourite bit: Start a column with a zero and you mark its double-points circle. Brilliant if that expedition goes well. Doubly painful if it doesn't. Oh, and the first player across each bridge grabs a 20-point bonus.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob packed a hat, a torch and far too much optimism.Lost Cities is Reiner Knizia's classic two-player card game of daring expeditions, from Kosmos. Each colour is a trip to a different lost city. On your turn, play one card to an expedition or discard it, then draw one. Cards in an expedition must go up in value, and every expedition you start costs you 20 points, so only commit when you mean it. Play three rounds and add up your scores.Gobgob's favourite bit: The handshake cards. Play them before any numbers to double, triple or even quadruple an expedition's score. Gobgob always shakes hands. Gobgob does not always win.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob wrote a love letter. Then got knocked out by a Guard.Love Letter is Seiji Kanai's tiny, award-winning card game of risk, bluffing and deduction. Everyone wants their letter to reach the princess, and you'll need help from the people around her to deliver it. You hold just one card. On your turn, draw a second card and play one of them, using its power to peek at a hand, swap cards or knock a rival out of the round. Last one standing, or whoever holds the highest card at the end, wins the round.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Guard. Name a card, and if your target is holding it, they're out. Guessing right feels amazing. Gobgob guesses Princess every single time.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob built a deck, conquered a city and completely missed dinner.Mage Knight Board Game is Vlaada Chvátil's epic fantasy adventure from WizKids, mixing deck-building, role-playing and classic board game strategy. Lead a powerful Mage Knight across a land held by the Atlantean Empire: explore, recruit units, learn spells, raid dungeons and conquer cities. Play competitive or co-op scenarios, or go it alone with the solo rules. It's big, rich and famously brainy.Gobgob's favourite bit: Any card can be played sideways for a basic move, attack, block or influence. So even your worst hand is a puzzle with a clever answer hiding in it.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60+ min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Shh. Gobgob isn't allowed to talk. Gobgob is pointing at the red pawn.Magic Maze is a real-time co-op board game from Sit Down! and designer Kasper Lapp. A mage, a warrior, an elf and a dwarf have to rob a magic shopping mall, grab their gear and escape before the sand timer runs out. The twist: nobody controls just one hero. Each player has one kind of action, like moving north or riding the escalator, that they use for every hero. And for most of the game, you're not allowed to talk.Gobgob's favourite bit: The big red "Do Something!" pawn. When talking's banned, you plonk it in front of a teammate and stare meaningfully. Gobgob stares very meaningfully.👥 1–8 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 hill. Then stood on it. Then fell off it.Magic: The Gathering – Arena of the Planeswalkers is a miniatures battle board game from Wizards of the Coast, built on the rules and 3D terrain of Heroscape. First you build the battlefield together, placing hills, terrain and powerful glyphs. Then each player picks a Planeswalker and moves their figure and creature squads around the map, casting spells and summoning more troops to outfox everyone else. The last Planeswalker standing wins. The battle takes place on Shandalar, a drifting world full of mana.Gobgob's favourite bit: Building the map. The terrain stacks up into real hills, so grabbing the high ground actually matters. Gobgob always claims the tallest hill and then refuses to come down.👥 2–5 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 joined the merchant navy. The merchant navy has concerns.Manifest is a cargo-shipping board game set in the roaring 1920s. You run a shipping company, steaming your ships across the oceans to pick up goods and passengers and deliver them to the right ports. Complete public and private Contracts to score points, while dodging pirates, storms and the odd stock market crash. Multi-use action cards and a few sneaky take-that moves keep everyone on their toes.Gobgob's favourite bit: Two ways to play. The Standard game is a friendly family intro, and the Expert game swaps blind card draws for buying and building your own deck. Gobgob started on Standard. Gobgob is still on Standard.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has a secret identity. It's also Gobgob.Marvel Champions: The Card Game is a co-op Living Card Game from Fantasy Flight Games. Each player becomes a Marvel hero with their own deck of cards, then the team works together to stop a villain before their evil scheme succeeds. The core set comes with five heroes (Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Black Panther and She-Hulk) and three villains to take down, and lots of expansions add more heroes and stories. Play solo or with up to three friends.Gobgob's favourite bit: Flipping your hero card. In hero form you punch villains and foil schemes, but in alter-ego form you rest up and recover. Picking the right moment to change is the whole trick, and Gobgob always changes at the wrong one.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Assemble! (Gobgob has been waiting all day to say that.)Marvel United is a co-op superhero board game from CMON. Each player takes an iconic Marvel hero with their own deck of cards, and together you try to foil the master plan of a villain run by the game. Take turns adding cards to a shared Storyline to move, rescue civilians, beat up thugs and clear threats around the city. Complete the missions first, then gang up on the villain to save the day. Cute chunky miniatures, quick rules and lots of teamwork.Gobgob's favourite bit: Teaming up. When you play a card, you can also use the symbols on the card the player before you just played, so heroes combo off each other. Gobgob calls this friendship. Also cheating, but the good kind.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 45+ min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is not hungry. Gobgob is hungry. Gobgob is very, very hungry.Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game is a co-op board game from CMON that flips Zombicide on its head. This time you play the zombies: famous Marvel heroes who have been turned into the undead. Work together through missions while the game throws S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and living superheroes at you. It's a stand-alone game using the familiar Zombicide rules, with a big box of miniatures and a Marvel twist.Gobgob's favourite bit: The hunger. Munching bystanders and beating enemies powers your zombie hero up, but it also brings bigger and scarier heroes running. Gobgob keeps saying just one more snack.👥 1–6 players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob packed a suitcase, a map and a spare Sanity. It will not be enough.Masks of Nyarlathotep (5th Edition) is the legendary globe-trotting campaign for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game from Chaosium, updated for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition (and it can also be run with Pulp Cthulhu). The investigators follow the trail of the doomed Carlyle Expedition and uncover a sinister plot, facing dark cults, strange lore and hideous monsters from Peru and New York to London, Cairo, Kenya, Western Australia and Shanghai. It's a big campaign for Keepers to run over many sessions, full of side adventures, maps, floor plans and ready-to-use player handouts. This edition won Gold for Best Adventure at the 2019 ENNIE Awards.Gobgob's favourite bit: The handouts. Letters, clippings and clues your players can actually hold, so the table gets to play detective for real. Gobgob keeps one pinned to the fridge, just in case.📖 Campaign for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob added it all up. Then the rules changed.Math Fluxx is a number-crunching card game from Looney Labs, part of the famous Fluxx family. It starts simple: draw one card, play one card. But the cards change the rules as you go, from how many you draw to how you win. In this version your Keepers are whole numbers, and the Goals are all about maths, so you'll need to add up and think fast. A sneaky way to practise maths without anyone noticing.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Plan B rule. It adds a second way to win, like Plus Victory, where you win if your Keepers add up to the current Goal. Gobgob now counts on fingers under the table.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 5–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob programmed the mech perfectly. The mech walked into a wall.Mechs vs. Minions is a co-op campaign board game from Riot Games, set in Runeterra, the world of League of Legends. Two to four players pilot home-made mechs as the Yordles Corki, Tristana, Heimerdinger and Ziggs, battling an army of marauding minions across ten story missions. Modular boards and new twists make each mission different, and together they build into one big campaign. It won the 2016 Golden Geek award for Best Cooperative Game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Command Line. You program your mech by slotting cards into six slots, then it runs them in order from left to right, whether that's still a good idea or not. Gobgob's mech mostly spins in circles.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob acted out a famous pirate. The table guessed "sad chicken".Monikers is a big, silly team party game from CMYK, designed by Alex Hague and Justin Vickers and based on the classic game Celebrities. Every round uses the same pile of name cards, from famous people to historical figures. In round one, describe the name any way you like without saying it. In round two, you get one word only. In round three, no words at all, just charades.Gobgob's favourite bit: By round three, a whole name gets guessed from one weird wiggle, because everyone remembers that terrible clue from round one. Instant inside jokes.👥 4–16 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 17+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob rolled, bought and traded before anyone asked "whose turn is it?"Monopoly Speed is Monopoly from Hasbro squeezed into under ten minutes. There are no turns: everyone rolls and buys at the same time, racing an electronic timer that counts down the buying and trading stages across four quick rounds. The board has two GO spaces, and you get out of jail free every time. Most money and property value at the end wins. A great family board game for people who love Monopoly but not the length.Gobgob's favourite bit: Nobody waits. The timer beeps, everyone rolls their own dice at once, and the table turns into a very polite property stampede.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 10 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube