Gobgob went underground. It's cosy down here. And crowded.Small World Underground is a standalone Small World board game from Days of Wonder, set in the caves and tunnels beneath the surface. It brings 15 new fantasy races and 21 new special powers. Pair them up, conquer regions, and score for every spot you hold at the end of your turn. Monsters guard the best places, so beat them first to claim their relics and Places of Power. It plays on its own, and it can be mixed with other Small World sets.Gobgob's favourite bit: The relics and Places of Power. Clear out the monster and you get a shiny bonus ability, until someone else comes along and takes it off you.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob knew the answer. Gobgob just shouted it three clues too early.Smart Ass is a loud, all-play trivia board game with a real Aussie flavour, created by Rob Elliott, long-time host of Australia's Wheel of Fortune. Nobody waits for a turn: the reader works through a string of clues and anyone can shout the answer at any time. The clues get easier as they go, so the trick is knowing when to jump in. First right answer moves forward, and first to reach the end of the board is crowned the Smart Ass.Gobgob's favourite bit: Shout a wrong answer and you're out for the rest of that question. So it's a tense game of chicken: wait for an easier clue, or risk it before someone else does.👥 2–12 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 phone is very cheap. It also doesn't work. Nobody bought it.Smartphone Inc. is an economic strategy board game designed by Ivan Lashin (Cosmodrome Games). You run a phone company in the early days of smartphones. Over five rounds you set your price, build phones, research new tech, open offices in new regions and sell into markets with limited room. Price too high and cheaper rivals take the sales. Price too low and you won't make much. The richest company after five rounds wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Planning is done by stacking your two plan cards and development tiles on top of each other. Whatever symbols peek through become your moves for the year, and everyone plans at the same time.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob joined the Rebellion. Gobgob mostly guards the snacks.Star Wars: Imperial Assault is a tactical miniatures board game from Fantasy Flight Games, set just after the Death Star blows up. It's really two games in one box. In the campaign, one player runs the Empire while up to four others play a team of Rebel heroes on a string of story missions. In skirmish mode, two players build strike teams and battle head-to-head. The core set also comes with Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader figure packs.Gobgob's favourite bit: The campaign grows with you. Heroes earn new skills and gear between missions, and the Imperial player unlocks nastier tricks too, so the story feels like a proper Star Wars trilogy.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob got an invite to Jabba's Palace. Gobgob did not read the small print.Star Wars: Jabba's Palace – A Love Letter Game is a quick card game from Z-Man Games, built on the classic Love Letter. On your turn you draw a card and play a card, using characters like Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Salacious Crumb and Jabba himself to peek at hands, steal cards and knock rivals out of the round. It's tiny, fast and full of bluffing.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Agenda cards. They change how you win each round, so sometimes the biggest number wins and sometimes it's whoever has the most Rebels or Palace cards in front of them. Gobgob still hasn't worked out which one it's playing.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is locked in a cell on a Star Destroyer. Again.Unlock! Star Wars is a co-op escape room card game from Space Cowboys, using the Unlock! system. Search scenes, combine items, crack codes and solve puzzles together to finish each mission before the clock runs out. There are three adventures in the box: break out of an Imperial Star Destroyer as smugglers, head out on a patrol on Hoth when Echo Base goes quiet, and go undercover as an Imperial spy on Jedha. The free Unlock! app runs the timer, checks your codes and gives hints.Gobgob's favourite bit: Combining cards. Pair a red object card with a blue one, add their numbers together and flip that card to see if your wild idea actually worked. Gobgob tried combining everything with everything. It did not work.👥 1–6 players  |  ⏱ 60 min per adventure  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob looked at the stars and saw a sandwich. Nobody else did.Stella: Dixit Universe is a party board game from Libellud, set in the dreamy world of Dixit and designed by Jean-Louis Roubira and Gérald Cattiaux. Each round, a clue word is read out and everyone secretly marks the Dixit cards on the board that they think fit it, using their own wipe-clean slate. Then you reveal your picks one by one. Match the same cards as other players to score.Gobgob's favourite bit: The risk. Mark lots of cards and you could score big, but pick a card nobody else chose and it could cost you the round. Gobgob always goes for it. Gobgob falls a lot.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The Grim Reaper is gaining on Gobgob. Gobgob said "false". It was true.Stupid Deaths is a darkly funny true-or-false party board game. Someone reads out a card describing a ridiculous way a person supposedly died, and everyone else secretly votes True or False. Guess right and you move your piece one step closer to home. Guess wrong and the Grim Reaper creeps one step closer to you. First player home wins, if the Reaper doesn't catch them first.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Extra Life token. Get caught by the Reaper and you can spend it to cheat death once. Gobgob saves it for the very last question, then panics and uses it early.👥 2–6 players  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob only eats the pudding. Gobgob does not win.Sushi Go! is a speedy pick-and-pass card game designed by Phil Walker-Harding. Everyone takes one card from their hand, then passes the rest to the next player, building the tastiest meal from the sushi dishes whizzing by. Score for the most maki rolls, full sets of sashimi and tempura, and nigiri dipped in wasabi. After three rounds, whoever has the most points wins, but save room for pudding.Gobgob's favourite bit: Wasabi. Play it, then put your next nigiri on top and that nigiri scores triple. Watching someone pass you the squid nigiri right after you laid down wasabi is pure joy.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob went looking for treasure. Gobgob came back as a donkey.Tales of the Arabian Nights is a storytelling adventure board game, first designed by Eric Goldberg and brought back in a big revised edition by Z-Man Games. You play a hero of the 1001 Nights, travelling the world on a quest of your own. Wherever you land you draw an encounter, choose how to react, and the other players read out what happens from the enormous Book of Tales. Collect Story and Destiny points to win, but honestly, the fun is in the stories you tell along the way.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your mates run your adventure. While one player picks the right paragraph, another reads it aloud, so every encounter gets a dramatic performance. Gobgob met a genie, got cursed and had a wonderful time.👥 1–6 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob found a Keyblade. Gobgob is using it to open the biscuit tin.Talisman: Kingdom Hearts is a Disney and Square Enix spin on the classic Talisman adventure board game, from The Op. Play as Sora, Kairi, Riku, Mickey, Goofy, Donald and more, then journey across a three-region board through Kingdom Hearts worlds like Traverse Town and Never Land. Roll, move, face Heartless, gather allies, magic and Munny, and grow strong enough to wield a Keyblade, face Ansem and seal the Door to Darkness.Gobgob's favourite bit: Eleven hero figures to choose from, each with their own powers, plus Gummi Paths to zip between worlds. Gobgob always picks Goofy. No regrets.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 11+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob got stranded on an island. Gobgob has declared itself captain.The Crew: Family Adventure is the family version of The Crew, the award-winning co-op card game from KOSMOS. The missions are simpler and made for younger players, and the setting swaps outer space for a Swiss Family Robinson-style desert island. Your family is shipwrecked, and you work as a team through eating, sleeping and big decisions to see how your island adventure ends.Gobgob's favourite bit: Everyone wins or loses together, so the kids and the grown-ups are all on the same side for once. Gobgob still tried to be captain.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Houston, Gobgob has a problem. Nobody is allowed to talk about it.The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine is a co-op trick-taking card game from KOSMOS, designed by Thomas Sing, and winner of the 2020 Kennerspiel des Jahres. Your crew of astronauts heads off in search of a mysterious ninth planet across 50 missions that get harder as you go. Each mission gives players tasks, like winning a certain card in a trick, and the team only succeeds if everyone completes theirs. You can stop after any mission and pick up where you left off.Gobgob's favourite bit: You can't talk about your cards. Instead, you get a communication token: show one card and place the token to say it's your highest, lowest or only card in that suit. Gobgob's eyebrows are doing a lot of work.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob can't tell you its numbers. Gobgob can make very worried noises.The Game is a co-op card game by Steffen Benndorf where everyone plays together against the deck itself. Work as a team to get all 98 cards, numbered 2 to 99, onto four piles: two climb up from 1 and two count down from 100. You must play at least two cards on your turn, and you can't say exactly what's in your hand, only hints like "don't touch that pile".Gobgob's favourite bit: The backwards trick. You can break the order by playing a card exactly 10 away, like a 97 on an 87 going down, and win back loads of room. Gobgob gasps every single time.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob says we all go home together. Nobody gets left behind.The Grizzled is a co-op card game about a group of friends surviving the trenches of World War I. Each round the team leader decides how many cards everyone draws, then you take turns playing a card or pulling out of the mission. Cards bring threats like shells, rain and snow, plus hard knocks that make life tougher. If the same threat turns up too many times, the mission fails. Win or lose, you do it together.Gobgob's favourite bit: Knowing when to pull out. Stay in too long and you might play the card that sinks the whole team, but duck out too early and your mates are left holding all the danger. Every choice feels heavy in the best way.👥 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