Gobgob is a matchmaker now. Results may vary.Love Formula is a card-drafting game from Gwin Games. You back a few couples and try to set them up on their perfect date, while quietly ruining your rivals' romantic plans. Each round has a draft phase, where everyone picks the cards for their hand, and a play phase, where you use them to plan dates and cause chaos. Play both phases twice, and the best matchmaker wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The sabotage. Planning a lovely date for your couple is only half the job. The other half is making sure someone else's date goes hilariously wrong.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 15–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Somebody in this town has very fluffy ears and very sticky fingers.Kemomimi Panic is an anime-style party game of talking, bluffing and deduction from Arclight Games, designed by Masayuki Kudou. Everyone plays a beast-eared citizen guarding a precious treasure, but the master thief Crescent Moon is hiding among you. Chat, question and use your character's special ability to work out who she is before she swipes everybody's treasure. Think Werewolf, with more ears.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every character has a special power, so everyone has a good reason to sound helpful. Including the thief. Especially the thief.👥 4–8 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The zeppelin crashed. The treasure hunt is on. Gobgob brought the map upside down.Isla Dorada is a treasure-hunting adventure board game set in the 1930s. After a zeppelin crash, a band of explorers must travel together across a mysterious island, so everyone moves one shared expedition pawn. Collect cards, then bid and bargain over where the group heads next, trying to reach your own secret treasures while steering clear of cursed places and blocking everyone else's goals. The rules are quick to learn.Gobgob's favourite bit: There is only one pawn. Every turn becomes a noisy tug-of-war over where the expedition goes next.👥 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 planted one flower in the desert. It is thriving. Gobgob is thrilled.Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon is a tile-laying strategy game from IELLO, designed by Bruno Cathala and Evan Singh. You are gardeners turning the desert into the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Lay garden tiles to grab gems, then spend them on Trees for points or upgrades that boost you for the rest of the game. Send your apprentices into the flower gardens to score, and block your rivals where you can.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every tile you place can snatch a gem and grow a garden at the same time, so the race for the best spot gets tense fast.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Heroes on one side. Villains on the other. Gobgob brought snacks for both.Ironrise is a team-versus-team adventure card game set in the world of Spirel. One team plays a band of adventuring Heroes, the other a crew of scheming Villains. Both sides manage their cards as resources and play them into challenges, a series of encounters that decide who earns victory points. The team with the most points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The challenge slots. Each team commits cards into slots to win an encounter, so teammates have to plan together and outguess the other side.👥 2–6 players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is definitely not a double agent. Probably.Homeland: The Game is a semi-co-op game of intrigue and hidden agendas, based on the Homeland TV series. Players are CIA analysts, sending agency resources to stop threats around the world by deploying soldiers, inserting agents and recruiting key assets. But not everyone at the table is on the same side, so keep a close eye on what your colleagues actually do.Gobgob's favourite bit: The paranoia. Every card played matters, and working out who is quietly working against the team is half the fun.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob mined one bitcoin. Someone took it. Tick tock, next block.HODL UP is a bitcoin-mining strategy board game. Travel the time chain from the Genesis block in 2009 all the way to 2140, when the last bitcoin is mined. Add transactions to blocks, mine them, earn block rewards and stack sats, while protecting your bitcoin from players who would love to take it. Quick to learn, with room for negotiation and plenty of tricky choices.Gobgob's favourite bit: The incentives shift as you move from one epoch to the next, so a plan that worked early on can go stale fast.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's family had a lovely day. That's the problem.Gloom is a darkly funny card game from Atlas Games, designed by Keith Baker. Each player controls a gloomy family of misfits, and the goal is to make them as miserable as possible before they meet their untimely ends. Play tragedies like being Pursued by Poodles on your own family, and cheer up your rivals' families with weddings and other happy events. Lowest family value wins. Great for players who love telling a silly story as they go.Gobgob's favourite bit: The see-through cards. Every card is printed on clear plastic, so you stack them right on top of a character and the scores underneath show through or get covered up. Gobgob just loves the clacky stacks.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob laid the first brick of Gloomhaven. Then argued about where the tavern goes.Founders of Gloomhaven is a competitive city-building board game by Isaac Childres from Cephalofair Games, set hundreds of years before Gloomhaven. Each player leads a fantasy race helping to build the city from scratch. Play action cards to place resource buildings, turn basic goods into advanced ones, and deliver them to building sites to earn prestige. Every race can only produce a few resource types, so you'll need to use your rivals' buildings too.Gobgob's favourite bit: The building votes. Players regularly vote on which new buildings get proposed and where they go, and you can spend influence to swing the result. Gobgob always votes for the tavern.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob found a golden idol. Then the boulder found Gobgob.Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game is a pulp adventure board game from Flying Frog Productions. It's the late 1930s, and your heroes race around the globe hunting ancient artifacts, exploring deadly temples and fighting off Nazi soldiers and gangsters. Roll dice to beat dangers, collect gear and allies, and sell artifacts in cities for Fortune. Play competitively to be first to the goal, or team up in co-op mode against a villainous organisation run by the game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Cliffhangers. Fail at a danger and your hero can be left hanging, just like an old movie serial, until your next turn decides if you escape. Gobgob spends a lot of time dangling over pits.👥 1–8 players  |  ⏱ 90–240 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob had a foolproof plan. Gobgob turned out to be the fool.Fiasco is a GM-less roleplaying game by Jason Morningstar, published by Bully Pulpit Games. With 3–5 players and no prep, you build a web of relationships, needs, objects and places from a Playset, then play out scenes where big ambitions and poor impulse control collide. It plays like a crime caper film where everything goes wrong, all in one sitting. It won the 2011 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, and it is great for groups who love improv, drama and chaos.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Tilt. Halfway through, the game throws in a new twist that makes everything worse, and the Aftermath decides who walks away happy. Gobgob rarely walks away happy.📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob's fingers are fast. Gobgob's aim is still in training.Fastrack is a speedy two-player wooden dexterity game from Blue Orange Games. Each player has discs on their side of the track and a rubber band to flick them with. You both fire at the same time, shooting discs through a tiny slot in the middle wall to send them over to your opponent's side. Clear every disc from your side first and you win. Loud, fast and great for families.Gobgob's favourite bit: The slot is only just wider than a disc, so going fast means missing a lot. Gobgob's strategy is "flick everything, hope".👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 10 min  |  🎂 Ages 5+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Nurse Gobgob is on shift. The waiting room is on fire.Dynamite Nurse is a fantasy deck-building card game by Atsuo Yoshizawa, published in English by Japanime Games. Each player runs a temple hospital in a world of swords and sorcery, patching up heroes who stagger back from dungeons with wounds, sicknesses and curses. Build your deck to cure them and grow your fame, but your hospital only has so many beds. Fill up, and you're in trouble.Gobgob's favourite bit: Tricky patients can be shoved over to rival hospitals. Everyone is trying to offload their problems onto everyone else, and nobody wants to end the game known as the dynamite nurse. Gobgob has never discharged a patient faster.👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 50 min  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's power level is over nine thousand. Gobgob checked.Dragon Ball Z: Road Trip is a Dragon Ball Z family board game from Aquarius. Travel across the real world and the other worlds to stop Babidi's forces and the evil Majin Buu. Take board actions, build up your ki energy and earn wishes to collect four special support items. Be the first Saiyan to bring all four back to Kami's Palace and you're crowned the strongest in the universe.Gobgob's favourite bit: The race back to Kami's Palace. Everyone is chasing the same goal, so the last few turns get very shouty. Very Dragon Ball.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob sculpted a mountain. Everyone guessed "potato".Dohdles! is a sculpting and guessing party game from Thames & Kosmos, by Klaus Teuber (of Catan fame). It's a fresh take on his Spiel des Jahres-winning game Barbarossa. Everyone secretly sculpts an object from modelling dough, then players take turns asking questions about each other's creations or asking for a letter in its name. Everyone hears the answers, so a good question can help your rivals too.Gobgob's favourite bit: The scoring. If everyone guesses your sculpture straight away, or no one guesses it at all, you get nothing. The trick is to make it just a little bit mysterious.👥 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