World Cycling Game (2009)

This is a brand new game from Denmark, designed by a former Danish professional cyclist, Niels Kristian Andersen. The game comes with a rulebook in four languages: Danish, German, English and Italian. Game components include seven different teams with seven cyclist pieces of each, one team leader, two climbers, two tempo-riders and two sprinters each, plus special pieces for the yellow, green, polka-dot and World Champion jerseys. The game comes with modular pieces that allow the player to design any course and comes with instructions for major cycling races like the Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Paris-Roubaix classics, the 2009 Tour de France, and the 2009 World Championship. Movement of the cyclists is controlled by die rolls and play of tactical cards.

From the advertising on the game box:

"World Cycling Game is a fun and intense game for the whole family. In World Cycling Game you need to see the big picture and have patience as the game is not won by luck but by the right tactic.

You set your team with your own favourites and use your tactical cards wisely. In World Cycling Game you battle against your friends for the yellow and polka dot jersey or the World Championship and the rainbow colored jersey. You'll find the greatest and historical races in this game or you can build thousands of different routes yourself with long mountains and dangerous downhill passages. World Cycling Game is a very varied and always exciting game and you can play it over and over."