Alliances made. Alliances broken. Gobgob regrets nothing.Cosmic Encounter is the classic sci-fi board game of alien politics, published by Fantasy Flight Games. Everyone leads a different alien race with its own rule-bending power. On your turn you send ships to another player's planet, both sides invite allies, and cards decide who wins the encounter. Deal, bluff and betray your way to five colonies outside your home system. Because allies share the spoils, more than one player can win at once.Gobgob's favourite bit: Shared wins. You can win together with your allies, so every deal matters, right up until someone changes their mind. Gobgob changes its mind a lot.👥 3–5 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 planned the perfect train robbery. Then everyone else played their cards.Colt Express is a Wild West family board game by Christophe Raimbault, published by Ludonaute, and winner of the 2015 Spiel des Jahres. You're a bandit robbing a 3D train at the same time as everyone else. Each round, players take turns putting action cards into a shared pile to move, punch, shoot and grab loot, then the pile plays out in order. Watch out for the Marshal. The richest outlaw after five rounds wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: You plan your moves first and they happen later, usually in a very different train from the one you pictured. Gobgob meant to grab the loot. Gobgob ended up on the roof, waving at nobody.👥 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

Collect chameleons. Only three colours count. Choose wisely.Coloretto is a quick, sneaky card game about collecting colourful chameleons, designed by Michael Schacht. On your turn, either draw a card and add it to a row, or take a whole row for yourself and sit out the rest of the round. Build big sets, but only three colours score points and every other colour costs you. Jokers and +2 cards help out, and when the last round card turns up, it's the final round. A great family game that's easy to teach.Gobgob's favourite bit: Deciding when to grab a row. Wait too long and someone drops a colour you don't want into it. Grab too early and you miss the good stuff. Gobgob always waits one card too long.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 15–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The King wants a castle. Gobgob wants the good workers.Caylus 1303 is a streamlined, modern take on the classic worker-placement board game Caylus, from Space Cowboys and original designer William Attia. Place workers on buildings along the road to gather and trade resources, construct new buildings and send goods to help build the King's castle for prestige. Characters with special powers offer their services, but their loyalty wavers.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Provost. Buildings past him on the road don't activate, and players can spend workers to shuffle him up or down. Nudge him back a step and your rival's big plan fizzles. Gobgob calls that town planning.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Twenty-five years of trading sheep. Gobgob brought party hats.Catan: 25th Anniversary Edition is a shiny celebration box of the classic trading and building board game from Catan Studio. It packs the Catan base game, the 5–6 Player Extension (so up to six can settle the island) and the Helpers of Catan scenario. Roll for resources, trade with the table, build roads, settlements and cities, and race to 10 victory points.Gobgob's favourite bit: The bling. Special iridescent anniversary wooden pieces and dice, resource card sorting trays and card sleeves. Gobgob's settlements have never looked so fancy.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 60+ min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Is the card red? Is it blue? Gobgob won't know until it's played.Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is a quantum trick-taking card game from Bezier Games, designed by Muneyuki Yokouchi. Your cards have numbers but no colours: you declare a card's colour as you play it. Bid how many tricks you'll win, place a token on the shared research board every time you play, and score bonus points for big connected groups of your tokens. The Deluxe Edition adds plastic tokens, recessed boards and a tidy insert.Gobgob's favourite bit: The paradox. Once a number has been claimed in a colour, nobody can claim it again. Get stuck with no legal play and you've created a paradox, which costs you points. Gobgob has broken physics twice.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

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.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

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.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 35 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

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.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

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.👥 3+ players  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob heard a creak upstairs. Gobgob is not going upstairs.Betrayal at House on the Hill is a spooky exploration board game from Avalon Hill. You and your friends explore a haunted mansion that you build as you go, one room tile at a time, picking up items, omens and creepy events along the way. Then the Haunt begins: usually one of you turns traitor, the rest must band together to survive, and the game becomes a brand-new scenario with its own rules. With 50 different haunts, no two nights in the house play out the same.Gobgob's favourite bit: When the Haunt starts, the traitor leaves the room with their own secret rulebook while the heroes huddle over theirs. Nobody knows exactly what the other side is plotting. Delicious dread.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is definitely human. Please stop asking.Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is a semi-co-op game of paranoia and survival from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Corey Konieczka and based on the TV series. The humans work together to keep the fleet alive, juggling fuel, food, morale and population while jumping ever closer to Kobol. But some players are secretly Cylons, quietly sabotaging everything from the inside.Gobgob's favourite bit: The sleeper agent phase. Halfway through, everyone gets another loyalty card, so a trusted friend can suddenly turn Cylon. Gobgob trusts no one. Especially Gobgob.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 120–180 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob knows exactly what 'flibbertigibbet' means. Gobgob is lying.Balderdash is the classic bluffing party game from Mattel. One player reads out a strange word or an unbelievable-but-true question, and everyone else secretly writes a made-up answer that sounds real. The real answer gets mixed in with the fakes, then everyone votes on which one they believe.Gobgob's favourite bit: You score for spotting the truth, but also for every player who falls for your fake. The more convincing your nonsense, the better. Gobgob's nonsense is world class.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is short. The Titan is not. Gobgob brought a ladder.Attack on Titan: The Last Stand is a one-versus-all board game based on the hit anime, designed by Antoine Bauza and Ludovic Maublanc. One player is the giant Titan, while everyone else teams up as the heroes defending the supply depot in Trost. The Titan and castle walls stand upright on the table, and heroes climb up and down them to dodge attacks and line up the killing blow.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Titan plays two attacks each round, one face up and one face down. Heroes roll dice and move knowing only half the danger. Gobgob guessed wrong. Gobgob got squished.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The Gatekeeper is watching. Gobgob is hiding behind the couch.Atmosfear: Interactive App edition is the 2019 app-powered update of the classic Atmosfear horror board game. Race around the board to grab a key from each of the six regions, then head to the Well of Fears in the centre for one last nerve-wracking draw before the clock runs out, or everyone loses. The app runs the countdown and brings in the Gatekeeper, who pops up at random to boss everyone around. You'll need a phone or tablet to run it.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Gatekeeper can pop up on a player's own phone, not just the main screen. Gobgob jumped. Twice.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 35–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube