Trivial Pursuit: 2000s board game box art
Trivial Pursuit: 2000s (Library) $0.00
Flip phones, frosted tips and a whole lot of trivia. Gobgob remembers.Trivial Pursuit: 2000s is a decade edition of Hasbro's classic trivia board game, all about the 2000s. Questions cover Places, Entertainment, Events, The Arts, Science & Tech, and Sports & Hobbies. Collect a wedge in every colour, then answer a final question to win. Great for game night with friends and family who lived through the noughties.Gobgob's favourite bit: The "stump your opponents" twist. You can see the topic at the top of each card, so if you think you'll flop, hand the question to a rival instead and watch them squirm. Gobgob stumps everyone on reality TV.πŸ‘₯ 2–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 45 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 16+πŸ“¦ In the box: 300 trivia cards with 1,800 questions across 6 categories.πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Tokaido board game box art
Tokaido (Library) $0.00
Gobgob went on holiday. Gobgob came back with souvenirs and a full belly.Tokaido is a calm, beautiful travel board game by Antoine Bauza. Everyone is a traveller walking the East Sea Road from Kyoto to Edo in old Japan. Along the way you stop to paint panoramas, soak in hot springs, taste local food, buy souvenirs and meet other travellers. Each stop scores in its own way, and the traveller with the richest journey wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The turn order. Whoever is furthest behind on the road always goes next. Rush ahead to grab the best stops, or dawdle and take lots of little turns? Gobgob dawdles. Gobgob always dawdles.πŸ‘₯ 2–5 players Β |Β  ⏱ 45 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 8+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Super Dungeon Explore board game box art
Super Dungeon Explore with Expansions... $0.00
Gobgob's head is the same size as its body. Finally, a game that gets it.Super Dungeon Explore is a dungeon crawler board game inspired by classic Japanese console RPGs, with cute chibi-style miniatures. Up to five players team up as fantasy heroes like a paladin, a dwarf fighter or an elf ranger, while one player becomes the Dark Consul and runs the dungeon's monsters. Fight through modular dungeon boards, grab loot and treasure to power up, smash the monster spawning points and take down the dungeon boss. This copy comes with expansions.Gobgob's favourite bit: Loot. Every time the heroes wound a monster they can draw loot cards, and treasure chests hold even better goodies. Meanwhile the Dark Consul has an endless supply of monsters. It's a proper old-school video game grind.πŸ‘₯ 2–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 120 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 10+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Pirates vs. Dinosaurs board game box art
Pirates vs. Dinosaurs (Library) $0.00
Gobgob found the treasure map. Gobgob did not read the bit about dinosaurs.Pirates vs. Dinosaurs is a push-your-luck adventure board game by Richard Launius, co-designer of Arkham Horror. Each player captains a crew of pirates hunting for buried treasure on a forgotten island. Kit out your crew with weapons and gear, pick the part of the island to search (the jungle is slower than the beach), then hunt down your pieces of the map. Rival captains can throw dinosaurs and other mayhem your way, and the island is slowly sinking.Gobgob's favourite bit: Digging up the loot. You pull treasure from a bag, hoping to dodge the pirate ghost and the island-sinking events, then decide whether to grab one more or run for the ship. Gobgob always grabs one more.πŸ‘₯ 2–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 90 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 11+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Order of the Stick Adventure Game: The Dungeon of Dorukan board game box art Order of the Stick Adventure Game – how-to-play comic
Order of the Stick Adventure... $0.00
Gobgob rolled for initiative. Gobgob rolled a 1.Order of the Stick Adventure Game: The Dungeon of Dorukan is a silly fantasy adventure board game from APE Games, based on Rich Burlew's much-loved webcomic The Order of the Stick. Why just read about hopeless adventurers when you can be one? Pick a hero, explore the mysterious Dungeon of Dorukan room by room and fight your way down to the bottom, where the lich sorcerer Xykon is waiting. It's a cheeky send-up of fantasy games and the people who play them, with cards and a board in the spirit of classic dungeon crawlers.Gobgob's favourite bit: You play as one of the six heroes from the comic: Roy, Haley, Durkon, Belkar, Elan or Vaarsuvius. Gobgob always picks Belkar, which explains a lot.πŸ‘₯ 2–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 180–360 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 12+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Mottainai card game box art Mottainai – box back
Mottainai (Library) $0.00
Gobgob wastes nothing. Not even the crumbs.Mottainai is a clever little card game by Carl Chudyk, the designer of Glory to Rome and Innovation, published by Asmadi Games. You are acolytes in a temple, performing tasks, gathering materials and completing works to sell or show off to visitors. The name means "don't waste", and it fits: every single card can be a task, a material or a work, so every card in your hand is a tough little choice. Quick to play, deep to master.Gobgob's favourite bit: When you pick a task, everyone else gets to follow up on it on their next turn. Every clever move you make might hand your rivals a treat too, so Gobgob plans very, very sneakily.πŸ‘₯ 2–5 players Β |Β  ⏱ 15–30 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 13+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Miraris card game box art
Miraris (Library) $0.00
Gobgob picked a 7. So did everyone else. Awkward.Miraris is a dreamy card game from Domina Games for 3 to 6 players. Peer into an antique mirror and explore the Wonders of the Dream World. Each round, everyone secretly picks a card numbered 1 to 9 and reveals at the same time. Play a number nobody else played and you claim a Wonder card; match someone and you both miss out. Special player powers help you score, and after 8 rounds the most points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The mind games. Do you play the big number everyone wants, or sneak in a low one nobody will touch? Gobgob always guesses wrong, loudly.πŸ‘₯ 3–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 10–20 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 8+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Masters of the Universe: The Board Game – Clash for Eternia – box Masters of the Universe: The Board Game – Clash for Eternia – game setup
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By the power of Grayskull, Gobgob has... slightly more power.Masters of the Universe: The Board Game – Clash for Eternia is an action-packed miniatures board game from Archon Studio, set in the world of He-Man. Pick the Heroic Warriors or the Evil Warriors, then roll dice, move across a hex-grid battlefield and use each character's special abilities to win the fight for Eternia. Upgrade your skills as the battle goes on and fight for control of Castle Grayskull. Play fully co-op against the game, or have one player run the baddies against everyone else.Gobgob's favourite bit: The one-vs-many mode. One player takes charge of the Evil Warriors while everyone else teams up as the heroes. Gobgob always volunteers to be the villain, then complains when the heroes win.πŸ‘₯ 1–5 players Β |Β  ⏱ 60 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 14+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Isla Dorada board game box art
Isla Dorada (Library) $0.00
The zeppelin crashed. The treasure hunt is on. Gobgob brought the map upside down.Isla Dorada is a treasure-hunting adventure board game set in the 1930s. After a zeppelin crash, a band of explorers must travel together across a mysterious island, so everyone moves one shared expedition pawn. Collect cards, then bid and bargain over where the group heads next, trying to reach your own secret treasures while steering clear of cursed places and blocking everyone else's goals. The rules are quick to learn.Gobgob's favourite bit: There is only one pawn. Every turn becomes a noisy tug-of-war over where the expedition goes next.πŸ‘₯ 3–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 60 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 10+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Ironrise card game box art Ironrise – official image 2
Ironrise (Library) $0.00
Heroes on one side. Villains on the other. Gobgob brought snacks for both.Ironrise is a team-versus-team adventure card game set in the world of Spirel. One team plays a band of adventuring Heroes, the other a crew of scheming Villains. Both sides manage their cards as resources and play them into challenges, a series of encounters that decide who earns victory points. The team with the most points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The challenge slots. Each team commits cards into slots to win an encounter, so teammates have to plan together and outguess the other side.πŸ‘₯ 2–6 playersπŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Homeland: The Game board game box art
Homeland: The Game (Library) $0.00
Gobgob is definitely not a double agent. Probably.Homeland: The Game is a semi-co-op game of intrigue and hidden agendas, based on the Homeland TV series. Players are CIA analysts, sending agency resources to stop threats around the world by deploying soldiers, inserting agents and recruiting key assets. But not everyone at the table is on the same side, so keep a close eye on what your colleagues actually do.Gobgob's favourite bit: The paranoia. Every card played matters, and working out who is quietly working against the team is half the fun.πŸ‘₯ 3–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 90 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 14+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
HODL UP board game box art HODL UP – whole game: box and components
HODL UP (Library) $0.00
Gobgob mined one bitcoin. Someone took it. Tick tock, next block.HODL UP is a bitcoin-mining strategy board game. Travel the time chain from the Genesis block in 2009 all the way to 2140, when the last bitcoin is mined. Add transactions to blocks, mine them, earn block rewards and stack sats, while protecting your bitcoin from players who would love to take it. Quick to learn, with room for negotiation and plenty of tricky choices.Gobgob's favourite bit: The incentives shift as you move from one epoch to the next, so a plan that worked early on can go stale fast.πŸ‘₯ 2–6 players Β |Β  ⏱ 45 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 14+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Gloom (2nd Edition) – box Gloom (2nd Edition) – modifier cards stacked on a character
Gloom (Library) $0.00
Gobgob's family had a lovely day. That's the problem.Gloom is a darkly funny card game from Atlas Games, designed by Keith Baker. Each player controls a gloomy family of misfits, and the goal is to make them as miserable as possible before they meet their untimely ends. Play tragedies like being Pursued by Poodles on your own family, and cheer up your rivals' families with weddings and other happy events. Lowest family value wins. Great for players who love telling a silly story as they go.Gobgob's favourite bit: The see-through cards. Every card is printed on clear plastic, so you stack them right on top of a character and the scores underneath show through or get covered up. Gobgob just loves the clacky stacks.πŸ‘₯ 2–4 players Β |Β  ⏱ 60 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 13+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube
Dynamite Nurse card game box art
Dynamite Nurse (Library) $0.00
Nurse Gobgob is on shift. The waiting room is on fire.Dynamite Nurse is a fantasy deck-building card game by Atsuo Yoshizawa, published in English by Japanime Games. Each player runs a temple hospital in a world of swords and sorcery, patching up heroes who stagger back from dungeons with wounds, sicknesses and curses. Build your deck to cure them and grow your fame, but your hospital only has so many beds. Fill up, and you're in trouble.Gobgob's favourite bit: Tricky patients can be shoved over to rival hospitals. Everyone is trying to offload their problems onto everyone else, and nobody wants to end the game known as the dynamite nurse. Gobgob has never discharged a patient faster.πŸ‘₯ 3–5 players Β |Β  ⏱ 50 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 16+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube
Pandemic: Rising Tide – box front Pandemic: Rising Tide – contents
Pandemic: Rising Tide (Library) $0.00
Gobgob stuck a finger in the dike. Gobgob needs more fingers.Pandemic: Rising Tide is a co-op board game in the Pandemic series from Z-Man Games, by Jeroen Doumen and Matt Leacock. Instead of diseases, you're fighting the sea. It's the dawn of the Industrial Age in the Netherlands, and the old dikes and windmill pumps can't hold back the North Sea much longer. Work together to build dikes, pump water out of flooded regions and construct four modern hydraulic structures before the country goes under.Gobgob's favourite bit: The water actually flows. Water cubes spill from region to region wherever there's no dike to stop them, so a single broken dike can flood half the board. Gobgob is now a very nervous engineer.πŸ‘₯ 2–5 players Β |Β  ⏱ 45 min Β |Β  πŸŽ‚ Ages 8+πŸ“š Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.πŸŽ₯ New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube