One of the oldest board games in the world. Gobgob still hasn't won.Backgammon is the classic two-player strategy board game, with roots going back thousands of years. Each player races 15 checkers around the board and off the other side, moving by the roll of two dice. Land on a lone enemy checker to send it back to the start, and stack your own checkers to build safe points your opponent can't land on.Gobgob's favourite bit: The dice bring the luck, but the skill is in what you do with each roll: which checkers to move, and when to take a risk. Gobgob blames the dice anyway.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob got kinged. Please address Gobgob as Your Majesty.Checkers (also known as Draughts) is the classic two-player strategy board game. Move your pieces diagonally across the 8×8 board and jump over your opponent's pieces to capture them. If a jump is available you must take it, so the real game is setting traps that force your rival into bad trades. Capture every piece, or leave them with no moves, to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: Reach the far side and your piece is crowned a king, free to move backwards too. Then line up a double jump and watch the board clear.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob moved the horse. Apparently it's called a knight.Chess is the timeless two-player strategy board game of kings, queens and clever plans. Each type of piece moves its own way across the 8×8 board as you attack, defend and capture. Trap your opponent's king so it has no escape (checkmate) and you win. Quick to learn, a lifetime to master.Gobgob's favourite bit: The knight. It moves in a sneaky L-shape and is the only piece that can hop over others. Gobgob's best forks start here.👥 2 players  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob picked a side in the sky city. Then Booker showed up.BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia is a strategy board game from Plaid Hat Games, based on the BioShock Infinite video game. You lead either the Founders or the Vox Populi, building an army to take ground in the floating city of Columbia, completing objectives and bidding your influence to sway events as they unfold. The first faction to 10 victory points wins. Play one-on-one, or four players in two teams.Gobgob's favourite bit: Booker and Elizabeth are loose in the city, causing havoc for both sides. The best-laid battle plans rarely survive them.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob stuck a finger in the dike. Gobgob needs more fingers.Pandemic: Rising Tide is a co-op board game in the Pandemic series from Z-Man Games, by Jeroen Doumen and Matt Leacock. Instead of diseases, you're fighting the sea. It's the dawn of the Industrial Age in the Netherlands, and the old dikes and windmill pumps can't hold back the North Sea much longer. Work together to build dikes, pump water out of flooded regions and construct four modern hydraulic structures before the country goes under.Gobgob's favourite bit: The water actually flows. Water cubes spill from region to region wherever there's no dike to stop them, so a single broken dike can flood half the board. Gobgob is now a very nervous engineer.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob stood on a chair. Still not tall enough.Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants is a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition sourcebook all about giants, from Wizards of the Coast. Inside you'll find deep giant lore, a new barbarian subclass, two giant-themed backgrounds, eight new feats, 30+ magic items (including three artifacts) and over 70 new monsters, plus lair maps, adventure hooks and encounter tables. Great for players who want to think big and DMs who want to make them regret it. This copy is the alternate-art cover edition.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Path of the Giant barbarian. Rage and your hero grows to Large size, and later you can hurl a weapon crackling with elemental power that flies straight back to your hand. Gobgob just wants to be tall for one fight.📖 Hardcover sourcebook  |  D&D 5th Edition  |  Alternate-art cover📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob made a jelly and pickle pie. Rate it honestly.A Matter of Taste is a food-themed party game, designed and published right here in New Zealand. Each round one player is the Chef and cooks up a dish on the board from ingredient and creation cards, some delicious, some deeply suspicious. Everyone then secretly scores the dish. Reveal together, and anyone whose score matches someone else's earns a pizza slice for thinking alike. A laugh-out-loud party game and family game in one.Gobgob's favourite bit: Matching scores wins, not being fancy. The trick is guessing what the table thinks, not what you think. Gobgob's gut says delicious. The crowd says absolutely not.🍕 In the box: a game board, 144 cards and 64 pizza slices, all packed in a pizza box.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 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

Winter is coming. So is Gobgob's betrayal.A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) is an epic strategy board game from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Christian T. Petersen and based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Each player leads a great House of Westeros, fighting for land, power and the Iron Throne. Every round you secretly place orders on your armies, then everyone reveals at once to see who marched, who defended and who got stabbed in the back. Make all the deals you like. Promises are never binding.Gobgob's favourite bit: Battles are decided by your House cards, each one a famous character from the books. Pick the right leader and a small army can hold off a big one. Pick wrong and Gobgob is taking your castle.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 120–240 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob drank the potion. Science demanded it.Alchemists is a clever deduction and worker placement board game from Czech Games Edition, designed by Matúš Kotry. You're rival alchemists racing to crack the secrets of alchemy. Mix ingredients and test the results with a companion smartphone app that shuffles the rules of alchemy every game, then publish theories to build your reputation. Sell potions, buy magical artefacts, and hope your theories hold up when the truth is revealed at the end.Gobgob's favourite bit: You can test a new potion on your student... or drink it yourself. Gobgob always drinks it. Gobgob regrets nothing (except the side effects).👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob paid the builders in exact change. Gobgob gets another turn.Alhambra: Big Box is the bumper edition of Alhambra, the Spiel des Jahres-winning family board game by Dirk Henn from Queen Games. It's 1278 in Granada, and you're hiring the best builders around to raise towers, gardens, pavilions and arcades for the Alhambra palace. The catch: every builder wants paying in their own currency, so collect the right money cards at the right time, then fit your building tiles into the best palace you can. The Big Box adds expansion modules to the base game for loads of variety.Gobgob's favourite bit: Pay for a building with the exact amount and you get another turn. Gobgob now carries a calculator.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ About 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

One Alice is lovely. A few dozen Alices is a turf war.Alicematic Heroes is an area control and engine-building board game from Japanime Games, designed by Kuro. The Queen of Hearts meant to summon one Alice to rebuild Wonderland, and summoned whole armies of them by mistake. Lead your team of Alices: summon them from your hand to power up your five colours, then invade territories on a modular hex map to score points.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every Alice has a Megalomania power that fires when you summon her. Can't afford one? Play her face down as a commoner to build up your colours instead.👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–80 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob picked a tiny word. The tiny word won.A Little Wordy is a clever two-player word game from Exploding Kittens, with art by The Oatmeal. You each get a pile of letter tiles, secretly make a word from them and write it down, then scramble the tiles and swap them. Now try to crack your opponent's word using clue cards (first letter, word length, what it rhymes with and more). The fewer clues you need, the better.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's not about knowing the longest words. Sometimes a short, plain word wins because your brainy opponent overthinks it.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob died last Tuesday. Gobgob is feeling much better now.Altered Carbon - The Roleplaying Game is the core rulebook for the tabletop RPG set in the world of Altered Carbon, from Hunters Entertainment. Play anyone from socialites to soldiers in the neon-soaked streets of Bay City, from the grimy Underground to the gleaming Atrium. It runs on the Hazard System, built just for this game, with zone-based combat, exotic high-tech weapons and gritty sci-fi noir mysteries where even the GM might not know whodunit at the start. Great for players and GMs who love cyberpunk and detective stories.Gobgob's favourite bit: Death isn't the end. If your body gets wrecked, your character's digital consciousness can be moved into a brand new sleeve, memories and all.📖 Core rulebook · Hazard System📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob would like everyone to stay calm. There is a dragon.Andor: The Family Fantasy Game is a co-op family board game from Thames & Kosmos, set in the world of Legends of Andor. Pick a hero (magician, warrior, archer or dwarf) and team up to rescue the lost wolf cubs from the dwarven mine. First you'll need to finish the tasks set by Mart, the old bridge guard, before he lets you cross, and all the while a sly dragon creeps towards Rietburg castle.Gobgob's favourite bit: The dragon is the clock. It keeps creeping closer to the castle, so the whole team has to plan together and move fast. Gobgob votes to run.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob hacked the mainframe. The mainframe hacked back.Android: Netrunner is an asymmetric two-player card game from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Richard Garfield and Lukas Litzsinger. In a cyberpunk future, one player is a giant megacorporation guarding its secret agendas behind layers of "ice", and the other is a lone hacker, the Runner, breaking in to steal them. First to seven agenda points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Corp plays its cards face down. Is that server hiding a juicy agenda, or a nasty trap? The Runner has to decide whether to risk the run. Gobgob always runs. Gobgob flatlines a lot.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube