Gobgob is secretly running the city. Please don't tell anyone.Lords of Waterdeep is a worker-placement strategy board game set in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeons & Dragons, from Wizards of the Coast and designers Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson. Each player is a masked Lord secretly ruling the City of Splendours. Send your agents around town to recruit adventurers, complete quests, buy new buildings and play Intrigue cards on your rivals. After eight rounds, the Lord with the most points wins. It took home the 2013 Origins Award for Best Board Game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Build a new building and every time someone else uses it, you get a reward too. Gobgob calls it passive income. The other Lords call it rude.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's answer was "cheese". Gobgob's answer is always "cheese".Loaded Answers is a question-and-answer party game, a fresh spin on the classic Loaded Questions. Everyone answers a question in secret, then you try to work out which friend wrote which answer. Guess right, write the favourite answer or match the player on turn, and you earn Money Cards. Everyone gets three turns, so you can watch the cash pile up.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's not only about guessing. Write the best answer and you get paid too, so the whole table turns into a comedy contest with prize money. Loaded, get it?👥 4–6 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Foggy streets, one sneaky villain, and Gobgob with a very small lantern.Letters from Whitechapel is a hidden-movement deduction board game set in London's Whitechapel district in 1888, designed by Gabriele Mari and Gianluca Santopietro. One player is Jack the Ripper, secretly moving between numbered spots on the map. Everyone else plays a police detective, working together to corner Jack before he slips away. It's a tense one-versus-all strategy game for grown-up game nights.Gobgob's favourite bit: Jack's route is written down in secret. The detectives search the streets one spot at a time, asking "Was Jack here?" Every yes tightens the net. Every no makes Gobgob sweat.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 90–150 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob assembled a super team. It is mostly Deadpool.Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is a superhero deck-building card game from Upper Deck, designed by Devin Low. Pick a Mastermind villain like Magneto, Loki, Dr. Doom or Red Skull and their evil Scheme, then shuffle together a few of the 15 hero decks, including Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk and Iron Man. Each turn, recruit heroes to power up your deck and fight the villains pouring into the city. Take down the Mastermind to end the game, but if the Scheme succeeds first, everyone loses.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's co-op and competitive at once. Everyone must work together to stop the Mastermind, but only the player with the most victory points gets the bragging rights. Gobgob saves the city. Gobgob also counts the points.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The forest spirits are racing. Gobgob bet on the tall one.Kiwetin is a quick, simple racing board game set in a magical forest. You play one of the forest spirits, riding the wind from branch to branch in a race to reach the sacred flower first. Each spirit moves in its own way, and randomly placed action tiles change the forest every game, so no two races play out the same.Gobgob's favourite bit: The forest plays tricks. Action tiles can help you or trip you up, and a whirlwind can turn the whole race upside down. Gobgob calls it strategy. It is mostly wind.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 5–20 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob would like to be King of Tokyo. Gobgob would also like a nap.King of Tokyo is the award-winning monster dice game by Richard Garfield, published by IELLO. Play a giant monster, robot or alien, roll six dice up to three times and keep what you like: victory points, energy, hearts to heal or claws to smack your rivals. Spend energy on power cards like an extra head or body armour. Be the first to 20 points, or the last monster standing, to be crowned King of Tokyo.Gobgob's favourite bit: Taking Tokyo. Sitting in the city earns you points, but you can't heal, and every other monster is aiming at you. Gobgob always stays one turn too long.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob came to the big city to be famous. Also to knock over a building.King of New York is a standalone monster brawler from designer Richard Garfield and IELLO, built on the King of Tokyo formula. Roll six dice up to three times, then claw your rivals, heal up, bank energy for power cards and chase fame. Each monster lives in its own borough while everyone fights to shine in Manhattan. Be first to 20 victory points, or be the last monster standing.Gobgob's favourite bit: You can wreck buildings for bonuses, but the more you smash, the bigger the military response. Gobgob calls it urban renewal. The army disagrees.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 40 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The monsters have stopped fighting each other. That is how you know it is bad.King of Monster Island is the co-op King of Tokyo game, designed by Richard Garfield and published by IELLO. A titanic Boss and its minions are building a portal on Monster Island, and your giant monsters must team up to stop it. Roll dice to smash minions, hit the Boss, heal, gain energy for power cards, stomp around the island and call in human support. Defeat the Boss before the portal opens, and don't let a single monster fall.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Boss runs itself. Its dice get dropped into the volcano, and whatever tumbles out tells it where to move, which minions to wake up and who to thump. Gobgob respects a volcano with opinions.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 45–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob asked the gods for help. The gods asked about pyramids first.Kemet is a big-battle strategy board game from Matagot, designed by Jacques Bariot and Guillaume Montiage. Each player leads an Egyptian tribe, with armies of miniatures and the powers of the gods of ancient Egypt behind them. Win battles, hold temples, build up your pyramids and spend prayer points on powers, including mighty creatures that march with your troops. The first to reach the target score, usually 8 or 10 victory points, wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Battles use cards, not dice. You pick from a hand of six that shrinks with every fight, so winning today can leave you short tomorrow.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 90–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Yo ho ho and a hold full of gunpowder.Jamaica is a pirate racing board game from GameWorks, by Malcolm Braff, Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon. Sail around the island in the Great Challenge while loading gold, food and gunpowder into your ship's holds. Detour for buried treasure, board your rivals and steal their loot, and make sure you finish with the most gold. Simple rules and lots of table talk make it a great family game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Each round the captain rolls two dice and decides which is day and which is night. Everyone then secretly picks a card, and the captain's choice can wreck your plans or make them.👥 2–6 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's empire is small. Gobgob's plans are not.It's a Wonderful World is a card-drafting, engine-building strategy game by Frédéric Guérard, from La Boîte de Jeu. You lead a growing empire racing to develop faster than your rivals. Each round you draft cards, then choose which to build and which to recycle straight away for resources. Finished buildings join your empire and boost your production every round. It also plays solo, and expansions add a campaign mode.Gobgob's favourite bit: Production happens one resource type at a time, in a set order, so a clever build can feed the next step in the same round. Watching your engine click is very satisfying.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob would like it on record that Gobgob did not snap.Infinity Gauntlet: A Love Letter Game is a Marvel card game from Z-Man Games, built on Seiji Kanai's classic Love Letter. One player is Thanos and everyone else teams up as heroes like Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor and Scarlet Witch. On your turn, draw a card and play a card. Heroes combine their powers to knock Thanos down to zero health, while Thanos hunts for the Infinity Stones. Small box, quick rounds, big superhero showdown.Gobgob's favourite bit: Thanos plays his own deck with a two-card hand, and if he gathers all six Infinity Stones, he wins with a snap of his fingers.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob packed for a quick trip to Troy. It has been ten years.Iliad is a strategy game about the siege of Troy. Each player leads Greek heroes into battle, playing cards to strengthen their own army or weaken their rivals' as each siege plays out. After every siege, the strongest players pick victory cards, the table is cleared, and everyone draws fresh cards for the next battle. The first to 12 points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: You keep the cards you didn't play for the next battle, so holding back a strong card now can win you the next siege.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Seven monsters, one tiny village. Gobgob has filed a complaint.Horrified is a co-op board game from Ravensburger, designed by Prospero Hall, starring the classic Universal movie monsters: Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein's monster and his Bride. Pick a hero, race around town, guide frightened villagers to safety and gather items to defeat each monster. You all win or lose together, and if the terror level climbs too high, the monsters win. Choose which monsters to face each game, and add more for a tougher night.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every monster needs its own plan. Dracula hides behind coffins you have to smash first, while Frankenstein's monster and the Bride just need a little help being more human. Gobgob relates.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob tiptoed past the dragon. The dragon heard.Hoard is a push-your-luck card game about sneaking treasure from a sleeping dragon. Twelve face-down cards circle the dragon, and each turn you do one thing: roll the custom die and move to grab a card, bank a set of treasure for points, soothe or rouse the dragon, or attack a rival with a sword. The dragon wakes up bit by bit, tail to head, and when it's fully awake the round ends. Collect sets, dodge swords and time your escape.Gobgob's favourite bit: Waking the dragon on purpose. If you're ahead, rouse the beast and end the round before anyone can catch up. Gobgob calls it strategy. Everyone else calls it rude.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 10–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube