Blokus board game box art Blokus – official image 2
Blokus (Library) $0.00
Gobgob only needs one tiny corner. That's all it takes.Blokus is a classic abstract strategy board game from Mattel, designed by Bernard Tavitian. Each player gets 21 colourful pieces in all sorts of Tetris-like shapes and takes turns placing them on the board. Every new piece must touch one of your own pieces, but only at the corners, never along a flat side. Fit as many pieces on the board as you can before you get boxed in. Learn it in a minute, then spend years getting sneakier. A top family game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Squeezing a piece through a diagonal gap into a rival's space, then parking a big piece right where they wanted to go. Polite? No. Satisfying? Very.πŸ‘₯ 2–4 players Β |Β  ⏱ 20–30 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 7+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Blood on the Clocktower board game box art Blood on the Clocktower – official image 2
Blood on the Clocktower (Library) $0.00
A demon walks among us. Gobgob is definitely not the demon. Probably.Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction party game from The Pandemonium Institute, designed by Steven Medway. In the village of Ravenswood Bluff, the good townsfolk must find and execute the Demon before evil takes over. A Storyteller runs the game, waking players one at a time at night to gather information or cause mischief, while the day is all open debate, secret whispers and nominations for execution. Every player has their own character with a unique ability, so no two players are ever the same.Gobgob's favourite bit: Dying isn't the end. Dead players stay in the game as ghosts, still chatting, still scheming, and they keep one last precious vote. Gobgob haunts with enthusiasm.πŸ‘₯ 5–20 players, plus a Storyteller Β |Β  ⏱ 30–120 minπŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Blood Rage board game box art Blood Rage – official image 2
Blood Rage (Library) $0.00
RagnarΓΆk is coming. Gobgob packed snacks.Blood Rage is a Viking strategy board game by Eric M. Lang, published by CMON. RagnarΓΆk has arrived and each player leads a Viking clan chasing glory before the world ends. Over three Ages you draft Gods' Gifts cards, then invade and pillage provinces, fight battles, complete quests and upgrade your clan with warriors and monsters from Norse myth. Battles are won with figure strength plus cards played in secret, so reading your rivals is half the game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Losing can be winning. Some Loki cards reward you for being crushed in battle, and fallen Vikings head off to Valhalla. Gobgob charges in regardless.πŸ‘₯ 2–4 players Β |Β  ⏱ 60–90 minπŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Boba Master card game box art Boba Master – card spread
Boba Master (Library) $0.00
Gobgob ordered extra pearls. Someone swapped Gobgob's cup.Boba Master is a bubble tea card game from Quokka Games. Everyone races to complete their favourite boba drinks by collecting the right cards, like tea and syrup. Use tools and action cards to get ahead, steal from rivals and force mistakes, and keep an eye on your order, because everything can change in a single swap. First to finish becomes the Boba Master. An easy, rowdy party game and family game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Swap cards. Trade whole hands, or even swap bubble teas with a rival right before they finish. Pure, sweet chaos.πŸ‘₯ 2–10 players Β |Β  ⏱ 20–60 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 7+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
BONK board game box art
BONK (Library) $0.00
Gobgob blinked. Gobgob's team conceded two goals.BONK is a fast-rolling ricochet dexterity game played on a curved wooden board. Two teams each guard a goal and roll steel balls down their slides to smack the wooden ball in the middle into the other team's goal. Run out of steel balls and you're at your rivals' mercy until they fire back. First team to five points wins. Best with four players in pairs, and a hit at any family game night.Gobgob's favourite bit: There are no turns. Everyone fires at once, the wooden ball barely stops moving, and a point can be over in a couple of seconds.πŸ‘₯ 2–4 players Β |Β  ⏱ 10 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 8+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Bottle Topps board game box art
Bottle Topps (Library) $0.00
Gobgob has very steady hands. Please note that before this goes wrong.Bottle Topps is a classic wooden stacking game from the early 1990s. Wooden discs, the topps, are stacked on top of a wooden milk bottle, and on your turn you slip one more topp in between the layers, so the stack grows outwards as well as upwards. The pile ends up spreading over the bottle like a little tree canopy, until someone's nerve finally cracks. A simple dexterity game and family game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The penalty. Knock topps off and you have to place double that many. Knock off a big pile at once and you're out. Steady hands only.πŸ‘₯ 1–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 30 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 6+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Brain Fart board game box art Brain Fart – contents
Brain Fart (Library) $0.00
Gobgob can name a fruit starting with Q. Just not under pressure.Brain Fart is a quick-thinking party game. Roll the nine category cubes, then press the brain timer to reveal a random letter. Take turns naming something from any showing category that starts with that letter, and grab that cube when you do. If the brain goes off on your turn, you take a chip. The player with the fewest chips at the end wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The brain goes off at a random moment somewhere between 30 and 45 seconds, so nobody knows how much time is left. Panic answers guaranteed.πŸ‘₯ 3+ players Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 14+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube
Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition) RPG book box art Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook (7th Edition) – back cover
Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)... $0.00
Gobgob read one forbidden book. Gobgob's Sanity would like a word.Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition) is Chaosium's classic roleplaying game of mystery and horror, and this is the Keeper Rulebook, the core book for whoever runs the game. Players take on everyday people who find themselves investigating the unknown, facing cults and cosmic horrors from the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. Inside you'll find the core rules, guidance for Keepers, spells, eldritch tomes and a bestiary of Mythos monsters, plus two ready-to-play scenarios: Amidst the Ancient Trees and Crimson Letters.Gobgob's favourite bit: Sanity. The more your investigators learn about the horrors out there, the more their grip on reality slips. Knowledge is power, and also terrifying.πŸ“– Keeper Rulebook Β· 448 pages Β· Call of Cthulhu 7th EditionπŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.
Canvas board game box art
Canvas (Library) $0.00
Gobgob made a masterpiece. Please hang it in a gallery.Canvas is a card-layering art competition board game from Road To Infamy Games, designed by Jeff Chin and Andrew Nerger. You play painters collecting beautiful transparent art cards, then layering three of them together to create your own painting. Each card also carries scoring icons, and the way you stack them decides which icons show and which get covered. Score each painting against goals that change every game, and after three paintings the best artist wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every painting you make actually looks gorgeous. Plus the card row is a sneaky puzzle: pay Inspiration tokens to reach further along, and scoop up any tokens sitting on the card you take.πŸ‘₯ 1–5 players Β |Β  ⏱ 30 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 10+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Carcassonne Big Box 7 board game box art Carcassonne Big Box – contents 1
Carcassonne Big Box 7 (Library) $0.00
Gobgob placed one tile. Gobgob now owns a very long road.Carcassonne Big Box 7 bundles the classic tile-laying board game Carcassonne, winner of the 2001 Spiel des Jahres, with 11 expansions in one box. Draw a landscape tile, add it to the growing map of roads, cities, monasteries and fields, then decide whether to place one of your meeples to claim it. The expansions add inns and cathedrals, traders and builders, the Abbot, the River, flying machines, gold mines, a mage and witch, robbers, crop circles and more. Mix and match for your perfect family game night.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Flying Machines. Roll the die and fling a meeple across the map, maybe right into a city someone else thought was theirs. Gobgob calls it air support.πŸ‘₯ 2–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 35 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 7+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Cards Against Humanity card game box art Cards Against Humanity – official image 2
Cards Against Humanity (Library) $0.00
Gobgob is not allowed to read these cards out loud. Gobgob did anyway.Cards Against Humanity is the famously rude fill-in-the-blank party card game for adults. Each round the Card Czar reads out a black question or fill-in-the-blank card, everyone else secretly hands in their funniest white answer card, and the Czar picks a winner. The winner gets an Awesome Point and the Czar role moves on. Simple to learn, and definitely not one for the kids' table.Gobgob's favourite bit: Rando Cardrissian, the house rule where a random card from the deck plays along as an imaginary player. If Rando wins a round, everyone has to live with that.πŸ‘₯ 4–20 players Β |Β  ⏱ 30–90 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 17+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Cartoon Network Crossover Crisis Deck-Building Game card game box art
Cartoon Network Crossover Crisis Deck-Building... $0.00
Cartoon worlds collide. Gobgob grabbed the snacks.Cartoon Network Crossover Crisis Deck-Building Game is a competitive deck-building card game from Cryptozoic Entertainment, built on their Cerberus Engine. Play as heroes from Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Regular Show, Samurai Jack, Steven Universe and more, buying cards to power up your deck and taking down Cartoon Network's baddest villains. Every main deck card is unique and packed with fan service.Gobgob's favourite bit: Event cards. They pop out of the main deck and shake things up in wacky ways, from stomping feet to zoo animal noises. Pratfall cards help you ditch nasty Weaknesses too.πŸ‘₯ 2–5 players Β |Β  ⏱ 30–45 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 12+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube
Clue board game box art
Clue (Library) $0.00
Gobgob did it. In the Library. With the Candlestick. Probably.Clue is the classic murder-mystery board game from Hasbro. One suspect, one weapon and one room are hidden in the secret case file. Move from room to room making suggestions, and use the cards your rivals show you to rule things out. Work out who did it, with what, and where, then make your accusation. Just be sure, because a wrong guess puts you out of the running.Gobgob's favourite bit: Making a suggestion drags that suspect's piece into your room. Gobgob loves summoning the whole mansion into one very awkward room.πŸ‘₯ 2–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 45 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 8+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Clue: Harry Potter Edition board game box art
Clue: Harry Potter Edition (Library) $0.00
Gobgob solemnly swears it was not Gobgob.Clue: Harry Potter Edition brings the classic mystery board game to Hogwarts. A student has vanished, and it's up to you to work out who did it, which spell or item they used, and where. Play as Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna or Neville, make suggestions as you move around the castle, then head to Dumbledore's office to make your final accusation.Gobgob's favourite bit: The board moves! Turn the corner wheels to reveal secret passages and change which doors are open, just like Hogwarts' shifting staircases. But if the Dark Mark appears, you'll need Help cards or you'll lose House points.πŸ‘₯ 3–5 players Β |Β  ⏱ 30 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 9+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Clue: The Simpsons board game box art
Clue: The Simpsons (Library) $0.00
Mr. Burns has been bumped off. Gobgob has an alibi. It involves doughnuts.Clue: The Simpsons is the classic mystery board game set in Springfield. Chief Wiggum has found Mr. Burns dead, and the suspects are Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Krusty and Smithers. Move around Springfield, make suggestions and rule out cards to work out who did it, where, and with which very Springfield weapon.Gobgob's favourite bit: The casting. Every suspect is dressed up as a classic Clue character, so half of Springfield is in disguise. Gobgob always suspects Smithers.πŸ‘₯ 3–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 45 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 8+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube