Last week, the jury of the Festival International des Jeux announced the winner of its As d’Or awards.  Games from last year are nominated in four separate categories and the overall winner is Odin, a climbing and shedding game designed by Yohan Goh, Hope Hwang, and Gary Kim.  Other winners include Operation Noisettes, in the Children Category, Behind, in the Intermediate Category, and Kutna Hora, in the Expert Category.  All the nominated games are given below, together with their designers and publishers.  Congratulations to all the winners!

GAME OF THE YEAR
Odin  (Yohan Goh, Hope Hwang, Gary Kim) – Helvetiq
Captain Flip  (Paolo Mori, Remo Conzadori) – Playpunk
For a Crown  (Maxime Rambourg) – Repos

CHILDREN CATEGORY
Operation Noisettes  (Emilie & Jerome Soleil) – Auzou
Spotlight  (Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva) – Loki
Mimose & Sam et le Voleur de Fruits  (Thomas Degenais-Lesperance) – Locomuse

INTERMEDIATE CATEGORY
Behind  (Cedric Millet) – KYF Editions
Harmonies  (Johan Benvenuto) – Libellud
Kronologic: Paris 1920  (Fabien Gridel, Yoann Levet) – Origames/Super Meeple

EXPERT CATEGORY
Kutna Hora  (Ondrej Bystron, Pavel Jarosch, Petr Caslava) – CGE
Daybreak  (Matt Leacock, Matteo Menapace) – CMYK
Sankore  (Fabio Lopiano, Mandela Fernandez-Grandon) Osprey