Jane says:

We love Gobblet! Paul and I find it a regular 'wind down' favourite after we've put the kids to bed. Its a nice balance of mental stimulation and quick fun.

The rules are very easy, you can probably get the idea from the little demo below but here's my quick version, just in case:

Stack your gobblets up smallest to largest. Players take turns. On your turn, either put a new gobblet into play by taking it from one of your stacks and placing it on an empty square or move a gobblet you have in play to another position. If its bigger than a piece in the position you want to move it to, you can gobble that piece up by placing your gobblet over it. If you get four in a row you win.

That is basically it. Its quite a memory test towards the end of the game because you have to remember what is under the gobblets and there is a little complication in the rules that allow you to gobble a piece on the board with a new piece from one of your stacks if the other player has three in a row.

The quality of the box and pieces is excellent. Although environmentally safe, the resin used on the box does have a bit of a varnishy smell but it quickly fades away once the game has been played a few times. Gobblet is a great game to have on display. I like to leave it with the pieces arranged to show my last win!

Gobblet has won lots of awards too. Paul said there are too many for him to fit on this page!

Paul says:

Gobblet is a wonderfully compelling educational game. Its fast pace keeps the kids entertained (even turning my six year old away from an epsode of Ben 10!).

The rules for 'on the go' are easily grasped immediately. There is something about gobbling up your opponents pieces that instantly appeals to kids (ok, and me too!). The full rules are almost as simple but you will need to re-enforce the rule about putting new gobblets onto empty squares - it makes for a much more interesting game but is easy to forget, particularly if graduating from playing 'on the go'.

The pace of play tends to be sufficiently fast to allow 3 or four people to play together in 'tournaments' with just one set. Watching the game is fun in itself and your turn to play again comes around quite quickly.

If you have a four or five year old playing with older siblings or parents its a good idea to allow them a couple of 'peeks' (where they can check under the pieces on the board as you look away). In fact, games where you allow unlimited 'peeks' are great fun too (but be prepared for them taking a lot longer to finish, and once a player over four or five years of age has played a dozen or more games they are likely to remember all the 'gobbles').

Because of the fast pace of play, it can be very hard to resist the 'one more game' request! Its a good idea to agree a best of '5' or some such at the start depending upon how much time you have available.

There are plenty of web references to Gobblet, mostly in America. Here are some of my favorites:

Play online	Play Gobblet against real players or bots. At the advanced level it shows just how deep Gobblet is so don't expect to win often without a lot of practice. I don't recommend this site for children. The chat is uncontrolled and the language can get a bit colourful. The site can also be a bit difficult to get your head around.
Blue Orange Games	Pick up the rules in detail on a nice printable pdf.
Board Game Geek	Reviews and comments from this American site. It also has a great range of Gobblet pictures. It covers the second hand marketplace too but I'm afraid you'll need to search a long way for someone willing to ship to Australia.