The penguins are back. The hall monitor is tired.ICECOOL2 is the sequel to the award-winning penguin-flicking game from Brain Games, designed by Brian Gomez. It plays on its own or combines with the original ICECOOL. Flick your penguin through the school, grab fish and dodge the catcher. This time the fish cards add trick-shot tasks and a way to move fish around, plus optional tournament scoring. Great family game fun for kids and grown-ups.Gobgob's favourite bit: Put both boxes together and you get new layouts, a new race mode, and room for up to eight flickers. Maximum penguin chaos.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

No running in the halls. Flicking is fine, apparently.ICECOOL is a penguin-flicking dexterity game from Brain Games, designed by Brian Gomez, and winner of the 2017 Kinderspiel des Jahres. The boxes nest together to become a penguin school. Each round one player is the hall monitor, trying to catch everyone, while the other penguins race through the doorways to grab fish. Everyone takes a turn as the catcher, and the most fish wins. A brilliant family game for kids and grown-ups.Gobgob's favourite bit: With the right flick your penguin curves around corners or even jumps clean over a wall. Gobgob mostly spins in circles, stylishly.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Trolls are snatching kids for lunch. Gobgob is appalled. Gobgob only eats snacks.Glimstone Grab is a co-op family board game set in the forest near the very ordinary village of Much Middling, where trolls keep snatching children. A wizard teams up with Esmeralda, the treasure thief from Hoard, and the two head off in opposite directions collecting glowing glimstones. Use movement cards to plan their paths, and when they meet up with the right mix of glimstones they can cast a spell to banish a troll. Banish every troll to win, but if all the children get taken, everyone loses.Gobgob's favourite bit: Planning the meet-up. You chain movement cards so the wizard and Esmeralda line up at just the right spot with just the right stones. When it clicks, the whole table cheers.👥 1–4 players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's penguin is stuck on one tiny ice floe. Worth it for the fish.Hey, That's My Fish! is a quick family strategy game designed by Günter Cornett and Alvydas Jakeliūnas. Your penguins slide across a board of hex ice tiles covered in fish. Move a penguin in a straight line, then take the tile it left behind, so the ice shrinks with every turn. Grab the juiciest floes and cut your friends' penguins off from the fish. When no penguin can move, the player with the most fish wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The melting ice. Every move removes a tile, so a well-placed penguin can strand an opponent on a lonely floe. Cute penguins, cold hearts.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob dodged the lava. Then got ghosted by a dino date.Happy Little Dinosaurs is a silly card game from Unstable Games about surviving all of life's little disasters. Each round a Disaster card flips over, whether natural, predatory or emotional, and everyone secretly plays a numbered Point card to grab points or dodge it. Collect too many disasters and your dino is out. Reach 50 points or be the last dino standing to win. Quick, funny and cheeky, it's a great family card game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Instant cards. Play one at just the right moment to tip the odds or save your dino from certain doom. Gobgob saves them for the pit of hot lava.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob was a wizard's pet once. Very loyal. Many snacks.Familiar Tales is a co-op fantasy adventure board game from Plaid Hat Games, designed by Jerry Hawthorne. You play magical familiars sworn to protect and raise a young princess who has lost her throne. Explore the world through a big storybook of branching paths, fight off enemies and make choices that shape the kind of queen she grows up to be. A companion app narrates the story and runs the game, like a built-in storyteller.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your familiar levels up by building its own deck of skill cards, so Gobgob's little helper slowly turns into a proper hero.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 45–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob built a snow fort. Then a whole snow city.Everdell: Silverfrost is a standalone Everdell board game from Starling Games and designers James A. Wilson and Clarissa A. Wilson. Head south of the valley into snowy mountain country and build a city of critters and constructions, just like classic Everdell, but with new frosty problems: clear the piling snow, burn fires to keep your citizens warm and send rangers out on quests. This Essentials Edition plays exactly the same as the Collector's Edition, with punchboard resources in place of the resin ones, so it's the friendlier price.Gobgob's favourite bit: Keeping your critters toasty. Let the fires go out in the snow and your cosy city is not so cosy. Gobgob has knitted everyone scarves, just in case.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+🛒 Grab it from Dice Goblin, online or in-store.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob packed a snorkel. The ocean said go deeper.Endeavor: Deep Sea is a strategy board game from Burnt Island Games, designed by Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray, the team behind Endeavor: Age of Sail. You run an independent ocean research institute: recruit field experts, then use their skills to explore new waters, research dive sites, publish ecological papers and launch conservation efforts. It's a streamlined, modern follow-up to the original, and it won the 2025 Kennerspiel des Jahres.Gobgob's favourite bit: Play it competitive, co-op or solo, and pick from 10 different missions, so the ocean never plays the same way twice. Gobgob votes co-op. Nobody has to fight over the whales.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+🛒 Grab it from Dice Goblin, online or in-store.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob let go. Gobgob regrets letting go.Drop It is a family game of skill and tactics from KOSMOS, designed by Bernhard Lach and Uwe Rapp. Take turns dropping circles, triangles, squares and diamonds into the top of an upright game board. Score points for how high your piece lands and for touching bonus spots, but if it touches a piece of the same shape or colour, you score nothing at all. Pieces bounce and tumble, so not everything lands where you planned.Gobgob's favourite bit: That split second after you let go. You aimed perfectly, and then the piece bounces off something and lands right next to a matching colour. Gobgob has learned humility.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob bought a dreadnought. Gobgob named it Tiny. It is not tiny.Dune: Imperium – Rise of Ix is an expansion for the Dune: Imperium board game from Dire Wolf, bringing in the high technology of the planet Ix. Acquire technology for lasting benefits, dominate the battlefield with mighty dreadnoughts and outmanoeuvre your rivals by sending in infiltrators. It also adds a new Epic game mode for a longer, higher-stakes game. You'll need Dune: Imperium to play.Gobgob's favourite bit: The dreadnoughts. Big, scary warships that turn up in the fight and make everyone at the table nervous. Gobgob approves.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+🛒 Grab it from Dice Goblin, online or in-store.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob's monkey has better aim than Gobgob.Coconuts is a silly dexterity game designed by Walter Schneider. Load a rubber coconut into your monkey launcher, press down and let it fly at the cups in the middle of the table. Land one and that cup goes on your own pyramid, or take aim at a rival's pyramid to steal their cups. Magic cards shake things up, like making someone shoot with their eyes closed.Gobgob's favourite bit: Special coloured cups give you an extra turn, so one lucky flick can turn into a whole coconut barrage. Stack six cups into your pyramid first and you're crowned king.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Wark wark! Gobgob speaks fluent Chocobo now.Chocobo Party Up! is a cute Final Fantasy family board game from Square Enix, designed by Yoshihiro Oneda with art by Toshiyuki Itahana. Roll the die to race your Chocobos through the forest, find lost Chocobo Pals and lead them home. Play Friend cards starring Final Fantasy favourites like Moogle and Typhon to help yourself or hassle your rivals. First to gather six Chocobo Pals in their nest wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Fat Chocobos. Discard two Friend cards to summon one. It only waddles one step a turn, but it's big, it's round, and it can kick other pieces.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob traded three turmeric for one cinnamon. Worth it.Century: Big Box collects the whole Century trilogy from Plan B Games and designer Emerson Matsuuchi: Spice Road, Eastern Wonders and A New World, plus all the promos and the new Golden Deals mini-expansion. Each one is a quick, easy-to-teach board game about collecting and upgrading goods to score points. Play them on their own, or combine them for seven different ways to play.Gobgob's favourite bit: Spice Road's rest turn. You play trader cards to upgrade cheap spices into fancy ones, then take a turn off to pick every card back up. Rest at just the right moment and your engine roars.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+🛒 Grab it from Dice Goblin, online or in-store.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has wood for sheep. Anyone? Anyone?Catan is the classic trading and building board game by Klaus Teuber, from Catan Studio. Build the island from hex tiles (it's different every game), then roll the dice each turn to see which land produces brick, lumber, wool, grain and ore. Trade with the table, build roads, settlements and cities, and be the first to 10 victory points. A Spiel des Jahres winner and a family game night staple.Gobgob's favourite bit: The robber. Roll a 7 and you park him on someone's best hex and pinch a card from them. Gobgob always says sorry. Gobgob is never sorry.👥 3–4 players  |  ⏱ 60+ min  |  🎂 Ages 10+🛒 Grab it from Dice Goblin, online or in-store.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube