Gobgob tried to power a city with one windmill. The city said no.Power Grid is a classic economic strategy board game by Friedemann Friese. Players run rival power companies, bidding at auction for power plants, buying coal, oil, rubbish and uranium to fuel them, and building a network of cities across the map. The more cities you can power when the game ends, the better you do.Gobgob's favourite bit: The fuel market. Prices go up as everyone buys the same thing, so a clever player grabs a plant that burns what nobody else wants. And being in the lead makes you go last when buying, so there's always a catch.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

It's morphin' time! Gobgob has called dibs on the Red Ranger.Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid is a co-op miniatures board game from Renegade Game Studios, designed by Jonathan Ying. Each player is a Power Ranger with their own combat deck, working together to defend Angel Grove from Rita Repulsa's monsters and Putty Patrollers. Move to the zones under the most threat, battle enemies, rest up at the Command Center, and take down the big boss at the end.Gobgob's favourite bit: Unlocking your Zords as you beat enemies, then bringing them together for the mighty Megazord. Also, your combat deck is your health, so every card you play is a tough little choice.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 45–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The aliens think cows are people. Gobgob is not going to argue.Processing: A Game of Serving Humanity is a silly sci-fi game of terrible democracy. Aliens have conquered Earth, and you're one of the survivors stuck deciding who gets Processed, Probed or Freed. The alien overlords all want different things, so each round you try to please their agendas and score the most victory points over three rounds.Gobgob's favourite bit: The aliens think cows are people too, so the herd gets processed right alongside everyone else. Gobgob always frees the cows.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob picked the Builder role. Everyone else built too. Rude.Puerto Rico is a classic strategy board game by Andreas Seyfarth. Each player runs their own plantations and town on the island, growing crops, turning them into goods, and shipping them off or selling them to build up their buildings. Earn victory points from shipping and from your buildings, and the most points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The role cards. When you pick a role, like Builder or Trader, everyone gets to do that action, but you get a little bonus. So every pick is a puzzle: what helps you most and your rivals least?👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 90–150 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob bought low, sold high, then spent the lot on a train.Raccoon Tycoon is an economic strategy board game from Forbidden Games, designed by Glenn Drover, set in the busy animal land of Astoria. Produce commodities like wheat, wood, iron and coal, then sell them for cash or spend them building towns. Your profits pay for powerful buildings and for bids on the all-important railroads. Own the best towns and railroads to become the top dog.Gobgob's favourite bit: The railroad auctions. Everyone suddenly has very strong feelings about the same train, and Gobgob has overpaid for one more than once.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob met the Council of Ricks. Every single one of them was rude.Rick and Morty: Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind Deck-Building Game is a deck-building game from Cryptozoic Entertainment, based on the Rick and Morty episode of the same name. Each player is a different version of Rick on an oversized hero card, racing to build a better deck than everyone else while the villainous Council of Ricks waits. You start with seven Genius Waves cards for Power, plus Beth, Jerry and Summer, who do nothing on their own but can switch on other cards. It runs on Cryptozoic's Cerberus Engine, the system behind the DC Comics Deck-Building Game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Portal Gun. Fire it to zap your Rick to a random location from the show, use that place on your turn, then maybe buy it for your deck. Gobgob has ended up somewhere very odd.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–70 min  |  🎂 Ages 15+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Four runes. One secret code. Gobgob guessed wrong. Twice.Rising 5: Runes of Asteros is a co-op deduction and adventure board game from GaryKimGames, designed by Gary Kim and Evan Song. Monsters are loose on the planet Asteros, and your team of agents must find the four lost runes and put them in the right order to reseal the Rune Gate. Spend your actions exploring the planet, gathering energy and clues, and fighting monsters, then try to crack the code. Run out of time as the darkness rises and everyone loses.Gobgob's favourite bit: Cracking the code. Each time you guess, the free app (or a game master) gives you hints about which runes are right. Gobgob loves the moment it all clicks.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 15–25 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has plans for Australia. Big plans.Risk is the classic board game of world conquest, first created by Albert Lamorisse and now published by Hasbro. Each turn you collect reinforcements for the territories you hold, with bonus armies for owning whole continents, then roll dice to attack your neighbours. Take a territory and you earn a card; trade in sets of cards for even more armies. Wipe out your rivals to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The dice battles. The attacker rolls up to three dice, the defender rolls up to two, and ties go to the defender. Gobgob once lost a whole continent to one very stubborn army.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 1–8 hours  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Yo ho ho and a bottle of chaos. Gobgob is ready to board.Rum & Bones is a team-versus-team pirate miniatures board game from CMON, inspired by online MOBA video games. Two rival crews clash across their ships, with each player running legendary pirate heroes who all have their own powers. Smash enough of the key features on the enemy ship to win, while your crew brawls away alongside you.Gobgob's favourite bit: Nobody controls the deckhands and bosuns. They charge about on a simple AI causing mayhem, while you grab Davy Jones' pieces of eight to unleash your heroes' nastiest moves.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob can name three cheeses. Just not in three minutes.Scattergories is the classic fast-thinking party game, first published by Milton Bradley in 1988 and now from Hasbro. Roll the 20-sided letter die, flip the timer, then race to write an answer for each of the 12 categories on your list, all starting with that letter. When time's up, read your answers out. You only score for answers nobody else wrote, so the obvious ones are worth nothing. Play three rounds and the highest score wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The arguing. Is "Gobgob" a valid "Famous Person" for the letter G? Gobgob says yes. The table says no. The table is wrong.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's bag is full of apples. Honest. Please don't look inside.Sheriff of Nottingham is a bluffing and negotiation board game from Arcane Wonders, designed by Sérgio Halaban, André Zatz and Bryan Pope. You are merchants bringing goods into Nottingham while Prince John is in town. Pack your goods secretly into a little bag, then tell the Sheriff what's inside. Legal goods like apples, cheese, bread and chickens earn steady money, but smuggled contraband earns far more. Everyone takes a turn as the Sheriff, deciding who to wave through and who to search. It won the 2015 Origins Award for Best Board Game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Bribes. Coins, cards and promises all count, and the Sheriff is very open to offers. If the Sheriff searches an honest merchant, though, the Sheriff pays up.👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob drew a cat. Everyone voted it a potato. Gobgob still won.Sketchagrams is a hashtag drawing party game from Mattel, the makers of Pictionary. Grab a caption card and two hashtag cards, then race a 45-second timer to draw a picture that fits the odd combo, like a social media post gone wrong. When time's up, everyone votes for the funniest drawing and the artist earns a Like token. Most Likes after four rounds wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: You don't need to be any good at drawing. The wobbliest doodles often get the biggest laughs, and the most Likes.👥 3+ players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has a poker face. It's mostly just the normal face.Skull is a pocket-sized bluffing party game by Hervé Marly, first released as Skull & Roses, and winner of France's As d'Or Game of the Year in 2011. Everyone gets four discs: three roses and one skull. Take turns placing a disc face down, until someone makes a bet: "I can flip this many roses without hitting a skull." Others can raise or pass. The highest bidder then flips, starting with their own pile. All roses and you win the round. Hit a skull and you lose a disc. Win two rounds, or be the last player standing, to take the game.Gobgob's favourite bit: You have to flip your own discs first. So if you sneakily hid your skull, your big brave bet can blow up in your own face. Gobgob has done this. Twice.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 15–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's empire lasted three turns. Gobgob calls that a legacy.Small World is a fantasy conquest board game by Philippe Keyaerts, published by Days of Wonder. The map is just too small for everyone, so you grab a random combo of race and special power (14 races, 20 powers), spread your troops across the land and push your neighbours out. Score coins for every region you hold at the end of your turn. Most coins after the last round wins. Light-hearted, a bit cheeky, and never the same twice.Gobgob's favourite bit: Going into decline. When your race runs out of puff, flip its tokens over and pick a brand new race, while the old one keeps quietly scoring for you on the board.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 40–80 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

For the Horde! Or the Alliance! Gobgob just wants the goblins.Small World of Warcraft is the Small World fantasy conquest board game from Days of Wonder, set in Blizzard's Azeroth. Alliance and Horde races like Orcs, Dwarves, Trolls and Worgen get paired with random special powers, such as Portal Mage Pandarens or Herbalist Goblins. Spread across the map, grab legendary terrain and powerful artifacts, and score coins for every region you hold. When your empire gets stretched too thin, send it into decline and start fresh with a new race.Gobgob's favourite bit: 16 Warcraft races and 20 powers, shuffled into new pairs every game. Gobgob is still waiting for the perfect goblin combo.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 40–80 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube