About Goblin Teeth
Goblin Teeth is a dice-bidding game for 2 to 5 players designed by Frank Tedeschi, with art by DreamWorks animator Derrick Nau, developed and published by Jellybean Games. The goblin Big Boss wants a set of shiny things, and the first goblin to bring the right offering wins. Each round a row of item cards goes up for auction, one of them face down. Everyone rolls three dice and places them one at a time as bids, with two goblin rules: your dice on one item may never add up to more than ten, and you may never tie another player’s bid.
The fun is in the Cheat cards. Put a die on the altar instead of bidding and you draw one; they let you reroll, move or steal dice, and a well-timed cheat can push a rival’s bid over ten and wreck it. Games run 20 to 30 minutes and the publisher lists ages 8 and up. The print-and-play lives in a Google Drive folder linked from the Jellybean Games print-and-play page; it is free for personal use, so we link rather than host.
How to play in one minute
- Shuffle the item deck and the Cheat deck. Put a random red and a random blue offering card on the offering mat (the orange offering is printed on the mat). Each player takes a reference card, one Cheat card and three dice of one colour.
- Start a round by dealing one item face down (the hidden item) and face-up items until the pot has one card per player. Everyone rolls their three dice; a triple must be rerolled.
- On your turn, play any number of Cheat cards, then place one die on an item in the pot or on the altar. An altar die lets you draw a Cheat card or discard the ongoing Cheat cards in front of any player.
- When the last die is placed the round ends: each item goes to its highest bidder, hidden item included. Whoever took the hidden item goes first next round; anyone who won nothing draws a Cheat card.
- The game ends when a player holds every item on one offering card. Ties go to the harder offering, then to the most goblin teeth.
What’s in the PDF
- Rulebook: 16 pages in colour with examples and an advanced variant.
- Components: a 3-page sheet with the altar mat, the offering mat and the double-sided offering cards (print duplex; the assembly note explains the pairing).
- Cards: a separate PDF with the 31 item cards, 30 Cheat cards and 5 reference cards, about 208 MB, in the same Drive folder. Print on card stock; you supply 15 dice (three each in five colours) and a first-player token.
In the PDF
- Rulebook (16 pages)
- Component sheet with the offering mat, altar mat and offering cards (3 pages)
- Card sheets with 31 item cards, 30 Cheat cards and 5 reference cards (a separate 208 MB PDF in the same Drive folder)
- Assembly note for the double-sided offering cards