Links: Betting on Azul, Celebrating Ten Years of Bombyx, and Going Cardboard

• To highlight another licensing success(?) in the Asmodee catalog and add to the long list of licensing in this Nov. 2021 post, check out the Azul-themed scratch ticket at right released by Loto Québec, a ticket that the company describes as "inspired by the board game created in Québec".

Your odds of winning the grand prize of CA$15,000 on this ticket, which was introduced on Nov. 29, 2021, are 1 in 666,667, so you'd probably have more luck earning that money by hustling people in the park in actual games of Azul.

• Like many other publications, Smithsonian has released a list of "The Best Board Games of 2021", with this article being authored by Rachel Kaufman while featuring game suggestions from Mik and Starla Fitch of Our Family Plays Games, Margaret Kleist of Blue Bridge Games, and Raina Medina of 1 Minute Board Games

• To celebrate the 10th anniversary of publisher Bombyx, Tric Trac visited the company's headquarters in Quimper, France to interview founding brothers Erwan and Loïg Hascoët, along with others in the office.

While there, they caught an overview of Takenokolor, which appears to be a roll-and-write game from Antoine Bauza and Corentin Lebrat using elements from Bauza's Takenoko. Instead of using dice, you roll colored markers that feature a hexagonal "belt", so on a turn you will choose a color and get the symbol showing on the marker you choose.

Screenshot from the video

The video is in French, with English subtitles (and subtitles in other languages) being available:

• To continue with the video clips, in this excerpt from The Graham Norton Show, the host asks actor Henry Cavill about his Warhammer habits:

• Finally, director Lorien Green has published her documentary Going Cardboard on YouTube. This film follows a few game designers in 2008, relaying their stories and contrasting their experiences in the hobby game industry.

Or so I'm told. I played games with Lorien and her husband Adam in the late 2000s when I lived in New Hampshire, and she interviewed me for the film as I'd been writing about games for four years at that point, but I've never watched it as I do not want to see myself on camera. Perhaps you won't have those same inhibitions...

For background, here's an interview with Lorien by WIRED from 2009 just ahead of her trip to SPIEL '09.