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Goblin Laundromat

Game ID: GID0144180
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2025
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Description

In this whimsical card game, adventurers bring their slimy and cursed items to be cleaned by your mischievous goblins.

Dive into a whimsical world where adventurers bring their slimy, grimy, and cursed items to be cleaned by your mischievous goblins. Collect valuable treasures while navigating the risks of handling too much dirty laundry. Will you strike it rich, or will you get burned by a cursed relic? This chaotic fun-filled game requires a bit of strategy and a lot of luck to determine your success!

Each round, players draft dirty adventuring gear into their own and opponents’ baskets, aiming to maximize valuable combinations without going bust. Weigh card value against stains— will you stop and score, or risk losing everything?

After 4 rounds, tally cleaned laundry. Personal suit cards score bonus points, but don’t get stuck with mismatched socks!

This family-friendly game takes under 30 minutes to play, with quick setup and easy rules. Luck, strategy, and sharp decision-making are key. Players interact by stuffing baskets, encouraging risky moves, and delighting in opponents’ misfortunes during the tense laundry cycle.

—description from the publisher

Description

In this whimsical card game, adventurers bring their slimy and cursed items to be cleaned by your mischievous goblins.

Dive into a whimsical world where adventurers bring their slimy, grimy, and cursed items to be cleaned by your mischievous goblins. Collect valuable treasures while navigating the risks of handling too much dirty laundry. Will you strike it rich, or will you get burned by a cursed relic? This chaotic fun-filled game requires a bit of strategy and a lot of luck to determine your success!

Each round, players draft dirty adventuring gear into their own and opponents’ baskets, aiming to maximize valuable combinations without going bust. Weigh card value against stains— will you stop and score, or risk losing everything?

After 4 rounds, tally cleaned laundry. Personal suit cards score bonus points, but don’t get stuck with mismatched socks!

This family-friendly game takes under 30 minutes to play, with quick setup and easy rules. Luck, strategy, and sharp decision-making are key. Players interact by stuffing baskets, encouraging risky moves, and delighting in opponents’ misfortunes during the tense laundry cycle.

—description from the publisher

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Video fWJSIcMMcTw Meeple University Top List at 31:35 sentiment: other
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Highly Recommend
Pros
  • Standout light filler card game
  • Unique combination of card drafting and push-your-luck
  • Fun bit of tension
  • Really fun and approachable
  • Family-level friendly
  • Perfect filler for various types of gamers
  • Interesting drafting decisions based on opponent's strengths
  • Fun scoring mechanisms (majority, pairs for socks)
Cons
  • The final card added to the deck is always unseen.
  • Risk of breaking the washing machine by getting too many stains.
Thematic elements
  • Goblins running a laundry service for adventurers' clothing
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Drafting — A simple seven wonders style card draft where players try to get different types of laundry.
  • Push Your Luck — Players add unseen cards to a laundry deck and then push their luck against different stain types, trying not to get too many stains flipped up.
  • Set Collection — Players collect different types of laundry to make sets.
  • Worker Placement — Mentioned in the context of potentially getting cards or resources (though primarily card drafting is the focus).
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  • In terms of light filler card games, this one is a real standout to me.
  • It adds this fun bit of tension for a really light little set collecting game.
  • And adding that shuffle push your luck mechanism to a draft that you've manipulated really really worked well.
  • It's a good game. Highly recommend it. Very approachable. Even though it has those couple of uh very gamery mechanisms in it, it's very family level friendly. It'll be a perfect filler for people who like heavy down to light games.
  • They always have great components, great artworks and this is a great engine building.
  • Yes, this is, you know, this style of game, the arknova ants, terraforming Mars type of game where you've got the giant deck and the major thing you're trying to do is get a big tableau of those and most of them do something immediately and some of them give you ongoings and some end game points.
  • I always say that's the one of the things that frustrates me about or terraforming Mars is that you are mining the deck for things randomly.
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Video dczcPFU6uD8 The Dice Tower Top List at 7:37 sentiment: mixed
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mixed
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Cons
  • Push your luck isn't strong enough.
  • Push your luck doesn't come into play if drafting is done well.
  • Points are convoluted.
  • Don't know how well you're doing.
  • Could be more focused.
Thematic elements
  • Washing dirty clothes as a goblin
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Drafting — Game involves drafting.
  • Push Your Luck — The core mechanic is push your luck.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Fiction: Banned Books, this is from All Play. I really like the first Fiction, guessing a five-letter word. If you like things like Wordle, um this is a good sort of one versus others game because one person is trying to stop you from guessing the word cuz they lie they have to lie about a letter each time, but you know they lie, so they're picking the right time to lie. But this offer this adds some special powers and things to it, so it's slightly better than the first one, I think, if you care about the stuff. If not, you can still play it normally, so great little game.
  • Got 5, a great deduction game for kids, wonderful components. Basically, um you everyone can see your numbers and you're guessing if this is higher or lower than your numbers and where they fit on a grid really works well for kids. There's a lot of good deduction games for kids these days. Another 8.5.
  • And Catan on the Road, what a glorious card game version of Catan, one one few games that I am going to get a copy of this for my house because my kids and family liked it so much. We can play this with anybody. It takes Catan, it distills it down into 15 minutes. What a wonderful thing. Like it a lot.
  • So, almost 15 minutes for 36 games.
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  • Like I said, you can find more information about most of these games on the Dice Tower channel or you will hear more about them in the future.
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