The island is sinking. Gobgob is still collecting shiny things.Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) is a co-op worker placement board game from Elf Creek Games, designed by Brent Dickman and Galen Ciscell. Atlantis is sinking, and your team must send citizens across the island to gather resources and build a cosmic gate before everything disappears beneath the waves. The coastline pays best but floods first, so every placement is a gamble.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Wrath of the Gods phase. At the end of each round your team has to agree which parts of the island to flood. Gobgob always suggests the bits Gobgob isn't standing on.👥 1–7 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob changed the rules. Then the rules changed Gobgob.Astronomy Fluxx is a space-themed card game from Looney Labs, part of the famous Fluxx family. It starts simple: draw one card, play one card. But the cards themselves change the rules as you go, from how many you draw to how you win, so the game never sits still. This version is packed with real NASA photos of planets and other wonders of space, so you learn a little while you play.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Goal cards. Just when you're one card from winning, someone swaps the goal and the whole table groans. Then Gobgob swaps it back.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 5–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's rabbit ate all the emeralds. Gobgob's rabbit regrets nothing.Argoat is an exploration board game from Japanese publisher Domina Games, designed by Y. Ohashi. Legend says the paradise of Eden lies hidden near a frontier town, and only someone holding all eight Fragments of Ancient Knowledge can find it. Players build the map card by card as they explore, gather knowledge and race to be first into Eden.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your rabbit eats emeralds to hop around the map. And when you negotiate, you can share knowledge with a rival without losing your own copy. Helpful? Sneaky? Both.👥 3–5 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 found a priceless pot. Then a sandstorm. Then a thief.Archaeology: The New Expedition is a quick set-collecting card game from Z-Man Games, designed by Phil Walker-Harding. You're archaeologists digging in the Egyptian desert: draw cards to find treasure, trade at the marketplace, explore a pyramid for hidden loot, and sell sets of treasure to the museum at just the right moment. Watch out for thieves and sandstorms!Gobgob's favourite bit: The sandstorm. When one hits, everyone loses half their hand to the marketplace, unless you give up your tent to shelter. Gobgob's tent is always gone by turn two.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 20–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

One Alice is lovely. A few dozen Alices is a turf war.Alicematic Heroes is an area control and engine-building board game from Japanime Games, designed by Kuro. The Queen of Hearts meant to summon one Alice to rebuild Wonderland, and summoned whole armies of them by mistake. Lead your team of Alices: summon them from your hand to power up your five colours, then invade territories on a modular hex map to score points.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every Alice has a Megalomania power that fires when you summon her. Can't afford one? Play her face down as a commoner to build up your colours instead.👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–80 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob paid the builders in exact change. Gobgob gets another turn.Alhambra: Big Box is the bumper edition of Alhambra, the Spiel des Jahres-winning family board game by Dirk Henn from Queen Games. It's 1278 in Granada, and you're hiring the best builders around to raise towers, gardens, pavilions and arcades for the Alhambra palace. The catch: every builder wants paying in their own currency, so collect the right money cards at the right time, then fit your building tiles into the best palace you can. The Big Box adds expansion modules to the base game for loads of variety.Gobgob's favourite bit: Pay for a building with the exact amount and you get another turn. Gobgob now carries a calculator.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ About 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Winter is coming. So is Gobgob's betrayal.A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) is an epic strategy board game from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Christian T. Petersen and based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Each player leads a great House of Westeros, fighting for land, power and the Iron Throne. Every round you secretly place orders on your armies, then everyone reveals at once to see who marched, who defended and who got stabbed in the back. Make all the deals you like. Promises are never binding.Gobgob's favourite bit: Battles are decided by your House cards, each one a famous character from the books. Pick the right leader and a small army can hold off a big one. Pick wrong and Gobgob is taking your castle.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 120–240 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Someone stole the MacGuffin. Gobgob has questions.5-Minute Mystery: The Museum of Everything is a co-op, real-time detective game. Your team searches busy museum scenes for hidden symbols, unlocks clues about the thief, then narrows down a line-up of suspects to make the arrest before time runs out. Case files change the rules every game, so each mystery plays a little differently. Quick enough for a lunch break, tricky enough for grown-ups.Gobgob's favourite bit: Some case files make you solve the whole thing without talking. Gobgob did not last.👥 1–6 players  |  ⏱ About 5 min per case  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob recommends this for loud tables. Five minutes, zero chill.5-Minute Dungeon is a co-op, real-time card game where your party has just five minutes to smash through a dungeon together. Pick one of ten heroes, each with their own deck and special powers, then race to match the symbols on each monster and obstacle with cards from your hands. Beat the boss and the next dungeon awaits, each tougher than the last, all the way to the fifth and final boss.Gobgob's favourite bit: There are no turns. Everyone slaps cards down at once while the clock ticks, and Gobgob has never once stayed calm.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 5–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob put on the deerstalker for this one.221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game is a classic Sherlock Holmes deduction board game. Every player is Holmes, racing around Victorian London to visit places like Scotland Yard, the Pawnbroker and the Apothecary, collecting clues and jotting them on your checklist. Crack the case, get back to 221B first, announce your solution and bask in your own genius.Gobgob's favourite bit: Slapping a Scotland Yard warrant on a location so nobody else can get the clue inside. Gobgob calls this "good police work."👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube