Gobgob has been birdwatching. Gobgob now owns binoculars and opinions.Wingspan is a bird-collecting, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games, designed by Elizabeth Hargrave, and winner of the 2019 Kennerspiel des Jahres. You are bird lovers attracting birds to your wildlife preserves. Each turn you play a bird card, gather food, lay eggs or draw more birds, and every bird you add powers up one of your three habitats: forest, grassland or wetland. After four rounds, the most points wins. It even has a solo mode.Gobgob's favourite bit: The chain reactions. Each new bird makes that habitat's action stronger and brings its own little power, so by the last round one turn can set off a whole flock of combos. Plus you roll the food dice through a birdfeeder dice tower. Gobgob tweets every time.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 40–70 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob found a cave full of dragons. Gobgob is building more caves.Wyrmspan is a dragon-collecting, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games, designed by Connie Vogelmann. Inspired by Wingspan but a standalone game of its own, it has you digging out a hidden labyrinth beneath your land and tempting dragons to roost in your caves. Excavate new spaces, entice dragons of all shapes and sizes, chain their powers together and climb the Dragon Guild track. Includes a solo mode.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every dragon you entice brings its own power, so a good sanctuary turns one turn into a whole chain of little dragon wins. There's even a 32-page dragon fact book in the box. Gobgob read it cover to cover.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The Blackbird is fuelled up. Gobgob has called shotgun.X-Men: Mutant Insurrection is a co-op, dice-driven card game from Fantasy Flight Games, set in the Marvel X-Men universe. Build a team from 16 iconic mutants like Wolverine, Rogue, Storm and Jubilee, then jet around the world on missions: recruit new mutants, catch criminals and save innocent lives. Eight scenarios each build to a big showdown with a villain such as Dark Phoenix, Magneto or the Hellfire Club. Play solo or with friends.Gobgob's favourite bit: Picking your dream team. Every hero plays differently, and working out who to send on which mission is half the fun. Gobgob always brings Jubilee. Fireworks fix most things.👥 1–6 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 is finally eating their veggies. For points.Point Salad is a quick card drafting game from AEG, designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin and Shawn Stankewich. Every card has a vegetable on one side and a scoring rule on the other. On your turn, take one scoring card or two veggies, and build a salad that fits your scoring cards. With over 100 ways to score, every game plays out differently. A great family card game that's easy to teach.Gobgob's favourite bit: The flip. Any scoring card can be turned over to become a veggie, so the card that's useless to you might still end up in your salad. Gobgob is still judging everyone's onion strategy.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 15–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob made the Eiffel Tower out of one shoelace. Nobody got it.Pictures is a family party game from PD-Verlag, designed by Christian and Daniela Stöhr, and winner of the 2020 Spiel des Jahres. Picture cards are laid out on the table, and each round you draw a marker from a bag that tells you which one is your secret picture. Then you rebuild it with the kit in front of you: shoelaces, coloured cubes, building blocks, icon cards, or sticks and stones. Everyone guesses which picture each player was going for.Gobgob's favourite bit: You score both ways: for guessing other players' pictures, and when they guess yours. So the best builds are clever, not fancy. Gobgob's shoelace mountain range is still misunderstood.👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 20–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob rolled for a cure. Gobgob rolled for another cure. Uh oh.Pandemic: The Cure is the dice game version of Pandemic, from Z-Man Games. Four diseases threaten the world again, but now everything runs on dice. Each player takes a role with their own set of dice, rolls to see what actions they get, then flies and sails between six regions, treats infections, collects samples and shares knowledge to find cures. At the end of each turn, infection dice are drawn from a bag and rolled to spread the diseases. It sets up fast and plays in about half an hour.Gobgob's favourite bit: You can re-roll as often as you like, but every re-roll risks pushing the world closer to the next epidemic. Just one more roll... Gobgob says that a lot.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob built a wall. The Goths brought a ladder.Pandemic: Fall of Rome is a co-op board game in the Pandemic series from Z-Man Games. It's the late days of the Roman Empire, and tribes like the Goths, Vandals, Anglo-Saxons and Huns are pouring across the borders. Instead of curing diseases, you recruit legions, fortify cities and march out to battle the invaders. Collect sets of matching cards to forge alliances with the tribes, and once you've made peace you can even turn their warriors into allies. There's a solo mode where you play the Emperor, plus harder challenges for experienced teams.Gobgob's favourite bit: Battles are fought with dice, so every clash with the barbarians is a proper nail-biter. Gobgob throws them very dramatically.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 45–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob bid everything on the tavern with the cool dwarf. Worth it.Nidavellir is a bidding and set-collection board game from GRRRE Games, designed by Serge Laget. The dragon Fafnir threatens the Dwarf Kingdom, and you've been sent to build the mightiest army to face it. Each round, everyone secretly bids gold coins on the kingdom's taverns, then takes turns recruiting dwarves in bid order. Blacksmiths, hunters, warriors, explorers and miners each score in their own way, and a well-balanced band attracts powerful heroes.Gobgob's favourite bit: Coin-building. Bid your special trading coin and you can merge two coins into a bigger one, so your purse keeps growing. Get it right early and you'll be outbidding everyone by the end.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The Sorting Hat put Gobgob in Munchkin. Gobgob is thrilled.Munchkin: Harry Potter Deluxe takes the classic Munchkin card game to Hogwarts, from USAopoly (The Op). Play as a student from your favourite Hogwarts House and scuffle your way through the wizarding world, grabbing Allies, casting Curses and scooping up treasure. The goal is pure Munchkin: be the first witch or wizard to reach Level 10.Gobgob's favourite bit: Picking your House. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin? Gobgob always goes Hufflepuff and always gets underestimated.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 11+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is a pirate now. Gobgob's accent is terrible.Munchkin Booty is the pirate-themed take on the classic Munchkin card game, by Steve Jackson Games with art by John Kovalic. Sail the seas as a Pirate, Naval Officer or Merchant, battle daft sea monsters like the Lobster Mobster and the Viking Kittens, and level up by grabbing treasure. It's a complete standalone game, and it mixes in with other Munchkin sets too.Gobgob's favourite bit: Accents. Taunt your foes in a British, Spanish, Dutch or French accent, and kit out your Half-Galleon with a Crow's Nest and a Figurehead. Gobgob insists on doing the voices.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob fought the Potted Plant. Gobgob won. Gobgob is Level 2 now.Munchkin is the classic comedy card game by Steve Jackson, published by Steve Jackson Games and illustrated by John Kovalic. It pokes fun at dungeon-crawling fantasy adventures: kick open doors, fight monsters, grab silly magic loot and pick up classes and races as you go. First to Level 10 wins, and the only way to get there is by beating a monster. It won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game in 2001.Gobgob's favourite bit: Asking for help in a fight. Your friends can jump in to help, for a share of the treasure, or they can throw extra monsters at you instead. Gobgob's friends always pick the monsters.👥 3–6 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 is not hungry. Gobgob is hungry. Gobgob is very, very hungry.Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game is a co-op board game from CMON that flips Zombicide on its head. This time you play the zombies: famous Marvel heroes who have been turned into the undead. Work together through missions while the game throws S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and living superheroes at you. It's a stand-alone game using the familiar Zombicide rules, with a big box of miniatures and a Marvel twist.Gobgob's favourite bit: The hunger. Munching bystanders and beating enemies powers your zombie hero up, but it also brings bigger and scarier heroes running. Gobgob keeps saying just one more snack.👥 1–6 players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has joined the merchant navy. The merchant navy has concerns.Manifest is a cargo-shipping board game set in the roaring 1920s. You run a shipping company, steaming your ships across the oceans to pick up goods and passengers and deliver them to the right ports. Complete public and private Contracts to score points, while dodging pirates, storms and the odd stock market crash. Multi-use action cards and a few sneaky take-that moves keep everyone on their toes.Gobgob's favourite bit: Two ways to play. The Standard game is a friendly family intro, and the Expert game swaps blind card draws for buying and building your own deck. Gobgob started on Standard. Gobgob is still on Standard.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob built a hill. Then stood on it. Then fell off it.Magic: The Gathering – Arena of the Planeswalkers is a miniatures battle board game from Wizards of the Coast, built on the rules and 3D terrain of Heroscape. First you build the battlefield together, placing hills, terrain and powerful glyphs. Then each player picks a Planeswalker and moves their figure and creature squads around the map, casting spells and summoning more troops to outfox everyone else. The last Planeswalker standing wins. The battle takes place on Shandalar, a drifting world full of mana.Gobgob's favourite bit: Building the map. The terrain stacks up into real hills, so grabbing the high ground actually matters. Gobgob always claims the tallest hill and then refuses to come down.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob rolled a zero. Gobgob is thrilled. Read on.Lost Cities: Roll & Write is a quick family dice game from Kosmos and designer Reiner Knizia, based on his classic card game Lost Cities. The active player rolls three colour dice and three number dice, picks one of each and marks that number in that colour's column on their expedition sheet. Everyone else then picks from what's left. Numbers in each column can only go up, so every choice counts. Push your expeditions far to score big, but a stalled one costs you points.Gobgob's favourite bit: Start a column with a zero and you mark its double-points circle. Brilliant if that expedition goes well. Doubly painful if it doesn't. Oh, and the first player across each bridge grabs a 20-point bonus.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube