TILE-PLACEMENT
NIMALIA
LUCKY DUCK GAMES, $20
AGE RANGE: 10+
PLAY TIME: 20–30 MIN.
PLAYERS: 2–4
Nimalia challenges players to build a wildlife preserve under exacting conditions. A variety of animals occupy four different biomes—polar, savanna, jungle, and water—and each player must lay out their cards to maximize a continually shifting set of scoring parameters.
The game has a number of novel features that seem baffling at first, but are easily explained. It’s played over five rounds, with the score calculated between each