Gobgob knows what “defenestrate” means. Gobgob would rather not demonstrate.League of the Lexicon is a word trivia board game for language lovers, pedants and the endlessly curious, from Two Brothers Games. Roll the die to pick a category, from word origins and definitions to usage and long-forgotten meanings, then answer to earn Artefacts. Collect the right Artefacts to claim victory. With two difficulty levels, younger word-nerds can join the grown-ups at the table.Gobgob's favourite bit: The questions dig into where words come from. You'll leave knowing a strange new fact about a word you've used every day of your life. Gobgob now corrects everyone. Gobgob has fewer friends.👥 2–6 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 would like it noted that Doctor Lucky started it.Kill Doctor Lucky is the famously cheeky board game by James Ernest that flips Clue on its head: instead of solving the crime, everyone is racing to commit it. Doctor Lucky wanders his mansion on a set path while you collect weapon cards, movement cards and failure cards. Get him alone in a room where no other player can see you, then make your attempt. The first player to finish off the very lucky doctor wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The failure cards. Everyone else can chip in to foil your attempt, but every failure card played is gone for good. Bait your rivals into wasting theirs, then strike when nobody has any left. Gobgob whistles innocently.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 20–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+🏆 Winner of the Origins Award for Best Abstract Board Game of 1997.📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Kia ora! Gobgob is learning. Slowly. Loudly.Kaupapa is a te reo Māori word description party game with 900 words, from rākau to rangatira. Describe the word on your card and get the other players to guess it. Beginners can use it to pick up new words, and fluent speakers can play fast for a fun, full-immersion game night. A great way to grow your Māori vocabulary while having a laugh.Gobgob's favourite bit: It works at any level, so a whole whānau can play together, whether you are just starting out or already fluent.👥 4+ players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Great minds think alike. In this game, that's a problem.Just One is a co-op party game from Repos Production, designed by Ludovic Roudy and Bruno Sautter, and the 2019 Spiel des Jahres winner. Each round one player shuts their eyes while everyone else secretly writes a one-word clue for the mystery word. Before the guesser looks, any matching clues get wiped out, so you need to be helpful without being obvious. Play through 13 cards together and aim for a perfect score.Gobgob's favourite bit: Five people all write "cheese". Five clues vanish. The guesser stares at an empty table. Gobgob has never laughed harder at a word game.👥 3–7 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob made a comic. It is not suitable for Gobgob's nan.Joking Hazard is a party card game from the creators of Cyanide & Happiness, where you build terrible three-panel stick-figure comics. Everyone holds a hand of comic panels. The deck plays the first panel, the judge adds the second, then everyone else plays a card to finish the joke. The judge picks the funniest ending. Dark, silly humour for grown-ups only.Gobgob's favourite bit: The same two panels can end in a dozen completely different punchlines, depending on who plays what. Nobody ever sees it coming.👥 3–10 players  |  ⏱ 30–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 18+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Say it out loud. Now faster. Now faster. Oh!Incohearent is a grown-ups party card game from What Do You Meme?. One player holds up a card of total gibberish, and everyone races to say it out loud until the real phrase pops out, all before the sand timer runs down. Try "thirds teeth or stay" a few times and you will hear "thirsty Thursday". Cards come in three categories, including party and pop culture. Best with a loud group.Gobgob's favourite bit: Watching a whole table chant nonsense at each other, getting louder and louder, until one person yells the answer and everyone groans.👥 2–20 players  |  ⏱ 20–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 17+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob stepped in the lava. Gobgob would like a do-over.Ignite is a fantasy battle board game that mixes deck-building with miniatures on a board you build differently every game. Each player leads three units of a race with its own special ability, and every unit has three hit points. Each card in your hand can be spent for honour to buy better cards, or played for its battle effect, so knowing when to fight and when to invest is everything. Land the final hit on an enemy unit and you keep it as a trophy; most trophies wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The terrain. Forests block arrows but fire spreads through them, water carries freeze and lightning, and anyone pushed into lava is gone on the spot.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 40–160 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is the boss now. Gobgob's split is very fair. For Gobgob.GoodCritters is a sneaky party game from Arcane Wonders, designed by Fabian Zimmermann. You're a crew of criminal critters pulling off heists, and it's time to split the loot. The Boss hands out the swag however they like, but the crew votes on the deal. Don't like your cut? Vote the Boss out and put someone else in charge. The critter with the most valuable stash at the end wins. Lots of bluffing, bargaining and grumbling.Gobgob's favourite bit: The vote. A greedy Boss can get booted in a heartbeat, so you have to bribe just enough critters to stay in charge. Gobgob has never survived a single vote.👥 4–8 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is all that and a bag of chips. Name six more.Geek Out! The 90's Edition is a pop culture party game from Playroom Entertainment. Draw a card and it asks you to name a certain number of things in a category. But before you start, everyone else can bid to name even more. The bidding keeps climbing until someone is brave enough to prove they're the biggest geek at the table. This edition packs 350 questions about 1990s pop culture.Gobgob's favourite bit: The bidding war. Someone always says one number too many, and then has to deliver. Gobgob said twelve. Gobgob knew four.👥 2+ players  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Totally radical, Gobgob. Now name ten of them.Geek Out! The 80's Edition is a pop culture party game from Playroom Entertainment. Draw a card and it asks you to name a certain number of things in a category. But before you start, everyone else can bid to name even more. The bidding keeps climbing until someone is brave enough to prove they're the biggest geek at the table. This edition packs 350 questions about 1980s pop culture.Gobgob's favourite bit: The bidding war. Someone always says one number too many, and then has to deliver. Gobgob said twelve. Gobgob knew four.👥 2+ players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob can name five 2000s ringtones. Probably.Geek Out! The 00s Edition is a pop culture party game from Playroom Entertainment. Draw a card and it asks you to name a certain number of things in a category. But before you start, everyone else can bid to name even more. The bidding keeps climbing until someone is brave enough to prove they're the biggest geek at the table. This edition is all about the 2000s, so dust off your flip phone.Gobgob's favourite bit: The bidding war. Someone always says one number too many, and then has to deliver. Gobgob said twelve. Gobgob knew four.👥 2+ players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob joined a pirate crew. Gobgob was put in charge of the parrot.Forgotten Waters is a story-driven pirate adventure board game from Plaid Hat Games, designed by Mr. Bistro, J. Arthur Ellis and Isaac Vega. It's a Crossroads Game: you and your crew sail one shared ship through a silly, magical world, each chasing your own pirate's story while working towards a common goal. Choose where to go, what to do and how to handle each twist, and your choices shape the tale. Five scenarios and a big book of locations give you loads to explore.Gobgob's favourite bit: The fully narrated companion app voices the whole adventure like a radio play. Gobgob still insists on doing the pirate voices too.👥 3–7 players  |  ⏱ 120–240 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob flicked a zombie. The zombie flicked back.Flick 'em Up!: Dead of Winter is a zombie dexterity board game from Pretzel Games, set in the world of Plaid Hat Games' Dead of Winter. Your group of survivors heads out into a frozen town full of the undead, and you move and fight by flicking pieces across the table. It comes with ten scenarios to play through, each with its own goals. Stay quiet, grab supplies and flick those zombies away before they swarm you.Gobgob's favourite bit: The zombie tower. New zombies get dropped through it and tumble out wherever they land, so you never quite know where the next one will pop up. Gobgob jumps every time.👥 1–10 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Ten players, one deck, a lot of kittens. What could go wrong? Everything.Exploding Kittens: Party Pack is the big-group version of the kitty-powered party card game from Exploding Kittens, with 120 cards for up to ten players. It mixes cards from the original game, the Imploding Kittens expansion and the Exploding Kittens app. On your turn you draw a card, and if it's an Exploding Kitten you're out, unless you've got a Defuse. Use the rest of the deck to peek at what's coming, make someone else draw extra or shuffle everything up.Gobgob's favourite bit: The deck gets scarier with every card drawn, because fewer cards means a bigger chance of a kitten. With ten players around the table, the last few draws are pure squealing. Gobgob squeals the loudest.👥 2–10 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob hears groaning. Gobgob is running.Escape the Horde is a fast-paced zombie card game where two sides battle it out in the Wastelands. The Survivors team up and use weapons, cunning and strategy to outrun Patient Zero and the zombie horde, while the Infected attack and try to turn every last Survivor. Survivors win if they last until the final card is drawn, or until the Countdown Clock runs out. The Infected win if everyone gets turned.Gobgob's favourite bit: Nobody gets knocked out. Get infected and you switch sides and start hunting your old friends, so every player stays in the game right to the end. Gobgob was bitten on turn two and has never had more fun.👥 2–4 players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube