Gobgob moved one stone. Then pushed three off the edge. Very zen.SHŌBU is a beautiful two-player abstract strategy board game from Smirk & Laughter Games, designed by Jamie Sajdak and Manolis Vranas. You play across four square wooden boards, split in half by a rope, with river stones as pieces. Each turn has two parts: a gentle passive move on one of your home boards, then an aggressive move on a different board that must copy the same direction and distance. That second move can shove your opponent's stones right off the edge. Clear all four of their stones from any one board to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your passive move sets up your attack, so every quiet little step is secretly a threat. It feels a bit like chess or Go, but totally its own thing.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 15–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is your co-pilot today. Please keep your seatbelts fastened.Sky Team is a co-op dice game for exactly two players, designed by Luc Rémond and published by Le Scorpion Masqué. You're the pilot and co-pilot bringing an airliner in to land. Each round you both roll dice in secret, then take turns placing them in the cockpit to keep the plane level, manage your speed, lower the flaps and landing gear, and clear traffic with the control tower, all without talking about your dice. It won the 2024 Spiel des Jahres, and 21 scenarios at airports around the world add wind, ice, traffic and more.Gobgob's favourite bit: The coffee. Grab a cup to sharpen your concentration and you can tweak a die's value when the numbers aren't quite working. Gobgob runs on the same system.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob recommends this for date night. Winner keeps the pearls.Splendor Duel is the two-player version of Splendor, by Marc André and Bruno Cathala, from Space Cowboys. Take gem, gold and rare pearl tokens from a shared 5x5 board, then spend them on cards that give you permanent gem bonuses, crowns, prestige and special powers. It's tighter and meaner than the original: take too greedily and you hand your rival a Privilege. There are three ways to win, so you always have to watch what your opponent is building.Gobgob's favourite bit: Card powers let you steal a token, take another turn or copy a colour, so one clever buy can swing the whole game. Gobgob has never been so polite and so ruthless at the same time.👥 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 set a course for the stars. Then forgot to pack snacks.Star Trek: Ascendancy is a big 4X space strategy board game from Gale Force Nine. Lead the Federation, the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Star Empire, send starships out to explore, then colonise worlds, build starbases, research new tech and decide whether to trade with your rivals or fight them. The galaxy map is built as you explore, so no two games ever look the same.Gobgob's favourite bit: Exploring is a lucky dip. Warp into the unknown, flip an exploration card and you might find a rich new world, a strange new civilisation or a hazard straight out of the show. Gobgob always boldly goes. Gobgob rarely comes back.👥 3 players  |  ⏱ 180 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has a bounty on its head. It's worth three biscuits.Star Wars Villainous: Scum and Villainy is a board game of scheming bad guys from Ravensburger, part of the Villainous family. Play Boba Fett, Cad Bane or the Seventh Sister, each with their own deck, board and win condition. On your turn you move around your locations, take actions and play cards to push your plan forward, while your rivals throw heroes and trouble in your path. You can play it on its own or mix its villains with Star Wars Villainous: Power of the Dark Side.Gobgob's favourite bit: Everyone is chasing a different win. Boba Fett works through bounties, Cad Bane hunts Target tokens and the Seventh Sister goes after Rebel heroes. Gobgob spends most games wondering how close everyone else is.👥 2–3 players  |  ⏱ 50 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob hid the flag behind three bombs. Gobgob then forgot where the bombs were.Stratego is the classic two-player strategy board game of hidden armies. Each side secretly sets up 40 pieces, from the Marshal down to Scouts, Miners, Bombs and one precious Flag, with ranks facing away from the enemy. Move your pieces across the board and attack. When two pieces meet, both ranks are revealed and the weaker one is out. Capture the enemy Flag to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Spy. It's the weakest piece on the board, but if it attacks the enemy Marshal first, the Marshal is gone. Gobgob loves an underdog.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob read it backwards. It still said Tacocat.Tacocat Spelled Backwards is a two-player duelling card game from Exploding Kittens, designed by Elan Lee. Each round you play cards of matching or higher value to defend your hand, or sacrifice your lowest card when you can't. Down to your final card, the lowest value wins, pulling Tacocat one step closer to your side. It's a quick mix of strategy, luck and gut feel, with silly palindrome art on every card.Gobgob's favourite bit: The box is the board. Open the lid, lay out the palindrome tiles and you're ready to duel in seconds. Perfect for cafés, flights and Gobgob's lunch break.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 15–20 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob traded salt for pepper, then pepper for dates. Gobgob is now very thirsty.Targi is a two-player trading and placement board game set in the Sahara, designed by Andreas Steiger and published by KOSMOS. You lead a Tuareg tribe, trading dates, salt and pepper for gold and bigger tribe cards. The board is a 5x5 grid of cards: take turns placing your Targi figures on the border, then collect the actions they point at and the cards where their rows and columns cross. Build a strong display of tribe cards to score the most points.Gobgob's favourite bit: The crossroads. Where the lines from two of your Targi meet in the middle, you claim that card too, but you can't stand opposite your opponent's figures. Blocking the card they need is Gobgob's whole personality.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob won every trick. Gobgob lost the game. Gobgob is confused.The Fox in the Forest is a two-player trick-taking card game with a fairy-tale twist, designed by Joshua Buergel. It started life at Foxtrot Games and is now published by Renegade Game Studios. You play ranked cards in three suits to win tricks, and some cards feature fairy-tale characters like the Fox and the Witch whose powers let you change the trump card, lead even after losing a trick and more.Gobgob's favourite bit: Don't get greedy. You score by winning more tricks than your rival, but win too many and you fall, just like the villain in a fairy tale. Sometimes the smartest move is to lose on purpose.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Dinner plans? Sorted. Let the spinner decide the rest.The Ultimate Date Night Game for Fun Couples is a light card game for couples. Flick the spinner, draw from the matching deck, then do what the card says, from sharing new stories to remembering old ones. It's a relaxed way to laugh, chat and get to know your person even better. Made for grown-ups.Gobgob's favourite bit: There's no fussy rulebook to wrestle with. Spin, draw, do it. The first to collect 25 cards wins, but honestly the chat is the real prize. Gobgob won and still had to do the dishes.📦 In the box: 300 cards across five categories, a spinner and instructions.👥 2+ players  |  🎂 Ages 17+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Name a fruit. FAST. The seesaw is coming for you.Tilt 'N' Shout is a shouty party game from Big Potato Games. Flip a category, shout out an answer, then push the zig-zag seesaw down so the ball rolls towards your opponent. They have to fire back an answer and tip it back before the ball reaches their goal. Win four rounds to win the game. Loud, quick and great fun for all sorts of groups.Gobgob's favourite bit: The marble-run seesaw is the timer, and its speed changes as the game goes on, so the team that's behind always has a shot at a comeback. Gobgob has panicked and shouted "banana" for every single category.👥 2+ players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Orbs, arcs and halos. Gobgob thinks this is how wizards play chess.Trinity is a two-player abstract strategy board game designed and published in New Zealand. It's played on a small 4x4 grid with three kinds of pieces: coloured orbs, arcs that match them, and halos. Each turn you move one orb a single square, then you must move the arc of the same colour anywhere legal on the board. Trap an opposing orb inside three arcs, box in your opponent so they can't move, or tuck all four of your pieces inside your own halos to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: Three ways to win on a board of just 16 squares. Every move of an orb forces an arc to move too, so one careless shuffle can hand your opponent the game. Gobgob stares at this tiny board for a very long time.👥 2 players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

The mothership is getting closer. Gobgob is building a bigger bunker.Under Falling Skies is a solo sci-fi dice-placement board game from Czech Games Edition, designed by Tomáš Uhlíř. Aliens are invading and you defend a city from your underground base. Place dice to power actions: dig out new rooms, shoot down ships, build robots, push your research and keep the energy flowing. Beat single missions, or play the campaign and save the world city by city.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every die you place also decides which alien ship comes down. Big numbers give you powerful actions, but they bring the ships down faster. Gobgob always wants the 6. Gobgob regrets the 6.👥 1 player  |  ⏱ 20–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has been training their flicking finger. It's very strong now.Pitch Out is a two-player flicking game from Gigamic, designed by Adrien Charles. Each side sets up a team of discs, led by a Captain, plus a few walls on their half of the field. Then you take turns flicking one disc at a time, trying to knock rival pieces off the field. Every disc has its own special power, so each flick is a little tactical puzzle. Knock out the enemy Captain, or leave them with only their Captain, to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The sneaky powers. The Assassin only needs to touch an enemy disc to take it out, so a gentle tap can be deadlier than a big whack. Gobgob still prefers the big whack.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 5–10 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob sewed a quilt. It has a hole shaped exactly like Gobgob.Patchwork is a cosy two-player puzzle game by Uwe Rosenberg, published by Lookout Games. You're both making a quilt on your own 9x9 board. Buy oddly shaped patches from a ring around the table, paying with buttons and time, and fit them together as neatly as you can. Some patches earn you button income as you go. At the end you score your buttons, but lose points for every empty square, so a tidy quilt matters. A short, clever board game for couples, friends and puzzle lovers.Gobgob's favourite bit: Time decides whose turn it is. Every patch costs time, and whoever is further behind on the time track goes next, so a cheap little patch can buy you a few turns in a row.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 15–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube