"Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!" Gobgob has been waiting all week to say that.Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases is the classic co-op deduction game, originally by Gary Grady, Suzanne Goldberg and Raymond Edwards, published by Space Cowboys. There's no board, no dice and no luck, just your brains against the case. Using a map of Victorian London, a directory and the day's newspapers, you choose where to go and who to interview, read the leads, then answer the questions and compare your score with Holmes himself. Why were two lions murdered in Hyde Park? Who pinched the paintings from the National Gallery? Ten cases to crack.Gobgob's favourite bit: The newspaper. It's easy to skip, but the clue that cracks the case is often sitting right there in the headlines.👥 1–8 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has joined the Irregulars. Gobgob is very good at lurking.Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars is a standalone co-op deduction game from Space Cowboys, written by Dave Neale. In 1880, Holmes hired a gang of street kids as his unofficial police force, and you play them over one very eventful year. Walk the foggy streets of London using the map, directory and newspapers, question witnesses, chase leads, then answer the case questions and compare your score with the master detective. Ten cases, including introductory ones that are perfect for new sleuths, plus some mechanical surprises for seasoned investigators.Gobgob's favourite bit: Playing the scrappy kids instead of Holmes. Nobody notices an urchin, which makes the snooping extra sneaky.👥 1–8 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob sent for Holmes. Holmes is busy. Gobgob will do it.Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Carlton House & Queen's Park is a standalone co-op deduction game from Space Cowboys with 10 cases of varying difficulty. There's no board and no dice, just you and your fellow detectives with a map of Victorian London, a directory, newspapers and a casebook. Choose where to go and who to question, read what you find, and follow the leads. When you think you've cracked it, answer the questions and compare your score with Holmes himself. This box ventures into new locations, including the fancy Carlton House and the not-so-peaceful Queen's Park, and includes two classic, long out-of-print cases, revised and updated.Gobgob's favourite bit: Comparing notes with Holmes at the end. He always solves it in a handful of visits. Gobgob took seventeen and interviewed the same cabbie twice.👥 1–8 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is definitely not a werewolf. Probably.One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast social deduction party game from Bézier Games, by Ted Alspach and Akihisa Okui. Everyone secretly gets a role: Werewolf, Seer, Robber, Troublemaker and more. During one quick night, roles wake up in turn and use their powers. Then comes the morning: everyone argues, bluffs and points fingers, and you all vote together. Catch a werewolf and the village wins. No moderator, nobody gets knocked out early, and a game takes about ten minutes, so you'll play again straight away.Gobgob's favourite bit: Cards get swapped in the night. The Robber takes someone's role and the Troublemaker switches two other players, so you might wake up as something else entirely. A free app can run the night-time narration for you.👥 3–10 players  |  ⏱ 10 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's clue was “moist lighthouse”. Nobody got it. Gobgob stands by it.Muse is a creative party game with over a hundred beautifully illustrated, dreamlike art cards. One player is the Muse: they get a secret masterpiece plus an inspiration card that limits how they can give their clue. Their teammates, the artists, then puzzle over the clue together and try to pick the right painting out of a line-up. Play as one co-op team at smaller tables, or split into two competing teams when there are four or more of you.Gobgob's favourite bit: The inspiration cards. You can't just say “the one with the fish”. You have to squeeze your clue into whatever odd shape the card demands, which is exactly why it's so much fun.👥 2–12 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Somebody in this town has very fluffy ears and very sticky fingers.Kemomimi Panic is an anime-style party game of talking, bluffing and deduction from Arclight Games, designed by Masayuki Kudou. Everyone plays a beast-eared citizen guarding a precious treasure, but the master thief Crescent Moon is hiding among you. Chat, question and use your character's special ability to work out who she is before she swipes everybody's treasure. Think Werewolf, with more ears.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every character has a special power, so everyone has a good reason to sound helpful. Including the thief. Especially the thief.👥 4–8 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob found a golden idol. Then the boulder found Gobgob.Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game is a pulp adventure board game from Flying Frog Productions. It's the late 1930s, and your heroes race around the globe hunting ancient artifacts, exploring deadly temples and fighting off Nazi soldiers and gangsters. Roll dice to beat dangers, collect gear and allies, and sell artifacts in cities for Fortune. Play competitively to be first to the goal, or team up in co-op mode against a villainous organisation run by the game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Cliffhangers. Fail at a danger and your hero can be left hanging, just like an old movie serial, until your next turn decides if you escape. Gobgob spends a lot of time dangling over pits.👥 1–8 players  |  ⏱ 90–240 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The bunnies are glowing again. Gobgob brought sunglasses.Radioactive Bunniez Collector's Edition is the Collector's Edition of Radioactive Bunniez, a competitive card game packed with radioactive bunnies. On your turn you draw a card, then either discard one or use it to attack, peek at, swap or sabotage another player's hand. Steal cards, force discards and dig through the Wasteland (the discard pile) for something good. Effect cards can double, halve or even reverse the value of your hand. When the Nuclear Armageddon card hits the Wasteland, everyone gets one final turn, then the most radiation wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Nuclear Armageddon can end the game by accident. Someone discards it at random and suddenly everyone has one turn left. Gobgob has done this. Twice.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 5–15 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has a very good feeling about horse number seven.Ready Set Bet is a loud horse-racing party game from AEG, designed by John D. Clair. Dice rolls push the horses down the track while everyone throws bet tokens onto the board as the race unfolds. After each race you win or lose cash on every bet, then grab a VIP Club card to help in the next one. After four races, the richest punter wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: There are no turns for betting. You place bets while the race is still running, so wait for a clear favourite and the best spots are already gone. Gobgob backs the underdog every time.👥 2–9 players  |  ⏱ 45–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob swears it was the pickaxe's fault. Totally not a saboteur.Saboteur is a hidden-role card game from AMIGO, designed by Frederic Moyersoen. Everyone is a dwarf digging for gold, but a few of you are secretly saboteurs. On your turn, lay a tunnel card to build a path from the start card towards three face-down goal cards, or play an action card to break someone's lamp, cart or pickaxe. The miners want to reach the gold; the saboteurs want the tunnel to fail without getting caught. Play three rounds, and the richest dwarf wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Laying a dead-end tunnel card with a straight face, then asking loudly who could possibly have done that.👥 3–10 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Twenty years of dwarves blaming each other. Gobgob brought snacks.Saboteur: 20th Anniversary Edition is the big birthday box of AMIGO's hidden-role tunnelling card game, designed by Frederic Moyersoen. Dig a path to the gold while secret saboteurs try to wreck it. This edition packs in the base game and the Saboteur 2 expansion, which splits the miners into blue and green teams and adds new roles like the Boss, the Profiteer and the Geologists. You also get the special cards from the 2016–2023 World Championships, the Tunnel Toll, Wardrobe Cavern and Tunnel Party mini-expansions, and two brand-new ones: New Goals and Treasure Chests.Gobgob's favourite bit: Coloured doors. A green door blocks the blue team, and a blue door blocks the green team, so even the honest miners start fighting over the tunnel.👥 2–12 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Zoinks! Gobgob heard a noise in the attic.Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion is a co-op mystery puzzle game in the Coded Chronicles series from The Op, designed by Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim. You play Mystery Inc. and the gang's favourite dog, reading through five story booklets together and hunting for more than fifty clues hidden in the pieces and the interactive game board. Secret envelopes open up as you crack each part, until you solve the mystery of Lady Fairmont's ghost and escape the mansion.Gobgob's favourite bit: Clues are hidden absolutely everywhere, even on bits you thought were just decoration. Gobgob now suspects every piece of cardboard.👥 1+ players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob drew a horse. Everyone guessed "sad potato". Points to Gobgob.Scrawl is a doodle-and-guess party game from Big Potato Games. Everyone starts with a silly phrase, draws it, then passes their pad on. The next person guesses what on earth the drawing is, the next draws that guess, and so on around the table. By the time your pad comes home, your masterpiece has turned into something completely different. Points go to the most disastrous doodles and the silliest guesses, so terrible artists are welcome.Gobgob's favourite bit: The big reveal at the end, flipping back through the pad to see exactly where it all went wrong. It is always page two.👥 4–8 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 17+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob trusts everyone at the table. That was the first mistake.Secret Hitler is a hidden-role social deduction party game from Goat, Wolf, & Cabbage, designed by Max Temkin, Mike Boxleiter and Tommy Maranges. Set in 1930s Germany, players are secretly split into liberals and fascists, and one fascist is Hitler. The liberals have the majority but don't know who anyone is; the fascists know each other. Each round you elect a President and a Chancellor, who pass laws from a shuffled policy deck. Liberals win by passing five liberal policies or taking out Hitler. Fascists win with six fascist policies, or by getting Hitler elected Chancellor once three fascist policies are down.Gobgob's favourite bit: The policy handoff. The President draws three, discards one and passes two to the Chancellor. When a fascist policy comes out, both of them swear the deck did it. Somebody is fibbing.👥 5–10 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The lamps are running low. Gobgob would like to go left. Everyone else says right.Sidibaba is a real-time team board game about a treasure hunt in a dark cave. One player is the Leader of the thieves, who holds the map of the maze and reveals what lies ahead using tiles. Everyone else plays Sidibaba and friends, talking it over and picking which tunnel to take and which special powers to use, and voting if they can't agree. The team wins by grabbing the treasure and getting out before their oil lamps go out. The Leader wins if the lights fail first or catches them without a spare lamp.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's against the clock, so every long debate costs you light. Gobgob's speeches have plunged the team into darkness more than once.👥 3–7 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube