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Everything you need to write about Mind Cycling in an article or a round-up: the facts, the designer, a direct contact and images to download.

Logo, box, board, riders and photos: download them below

The facts in ten lines

Enough to introduce the game in one paragraph, or to copy as it is.

The full rulesPress contact

Players
2 to 6 players, 20 to 60 minutes, ages 10 and up
Name
Mind Cycling
Category
Cycling board game, without dice or cards
Designer
Philippe Scheinok (Belgium). Illustrations: Marion Aupied.
Released
2024, self-published, after a Kickstarter campaign in 2023: 132 backers, €6,142 raised against a €5,000 goal
Price
€39 including VAT on mindcycling.be. Recommended retail price in shops: €45
Languages
Rules in 8 languages in the box: French, English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Portuguese
Barcode
EAN 5419980387202
Online
Free to play on Board Game Arena since 23 August 2025: more than 4,800 games played. It is the only road cycling game on the platform.
Festivals
Essen, Dortmund, Cannes, Paris, Lille, Brussels, the Roubaix velodrome.

The designer

Philippe Scheinok created Mind Cycling to bring two passions together: cycling and strategy games. A Solvay-trained business engineer and a former company manager, he publishes the game himself, from the Belgian coast.

He launched the project on Kickstarter in 2023; the game came out in 2024. He introduces it to players at board game festivals, from Essen to the Roubaix velodrome.

Press contact

Philippe Scheinok, designer and publisher of Mind Cycling, answers himself.

Philippe Scheinok in a Mind Cycling T-shirt, behind the board set up on a table, holding the box of the game
Philippe Scheinok with his game.Download (JPEG, 677 KB)

Images to download

The box, the board, the riders, the logo and photos of the game, as original files, ready for an article or a round-up.

The game

  • The box, three-quarter view

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  • The back of the box

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  • The full board, illustrated by Marion Aupied

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  • The 21 riders of the 7 teams

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Photos

  • Philippe Scheinok, the designer, with his game

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  • The box on the board, the riders on the start line

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  • A game on the lawn

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  • A finger pushes the Belgian rider

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  • A hand in a Belgian jersey places the riders

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  • The Belgian rider, two riders on his wheel

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  • The peloton on the start line, at board level

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  • The last bends before the finish arch

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In the press

Six articles, in Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

  1. Bordspelwereld

    Dutch board game website, “Het spel van…” interview series

    Netherlands, 26 May 2023

    “Mind Cycling, het spel van Philippe Scheinok”

    Mind Cycling, Philippe Scheinok’s game

    By Dick Verschuur, interview with Philippe Scheinok

    Dus besloot ik om dit spel te maken zonder dobbelstenen of kaarten en dus zonder toeval.

    So I decided to make this game without dice or cards, and so without luck.

    Read the interview (in Dutch) (opens in a new tab)

  2. La Capitale

    Daily newspaper, Brussels pages

    Belgium, 25 August 2023, page 10

    “Mind Cycling, un jeu de stratégie dans l’univers cycliste”

    Mind Cycling, a strategy game set in the world of cycling

    Le jeu Mind Cycling permet aux joueurs de se plonger dans la peau d’un directeur sportif le temps d’une course.

    Mind Cycling lets players step into the shoes of a team director for the length of a race.

  3. Des Jeux Une Fois

    Belgian board game blog

    Belgium, 26 September 2023

    “Mind Cycling – Kickstarter”

    By Shane

    Er is goed over nagedacht en het speelt heel fijn.

    A lot of thought has gone into it, and it plays really well.

    Read the article (in Dutch) (opens in a new tab)

  4. La DH

    Daily newspaper, Brussels edition, Les Sports+ pages

    Belgium, 9 October 2023

    “Un Bruxellois crée un jeu de société sur le cyclisme”

    A Brussels man creates a board game about cycling

    By Julien Gillebert, La DH’s cycling specialist

    Sans dés et sans carte, il n’y a pas de hasard. Juste de la tactique.

    No dice and no cards, so no luck. Just tactics.

    Read the article (subscribers, in French) (opens in a new tab)

  5. Ravage

    Board-game magazine, Jeux de plateaux edition

    France, November 2024, pages 90 and 91

    “La loi de la pédale”

    The law of the pedal

    By Kmylle Muzo

    Le meilleur jeu de simulation de course auquel j’ai pu jouer.

    The best racing simulation game I have ever played.

  6. Spel!

    Magazine of Ducosim, the Dutch games association

    Netherlands, June 2025, page 36

    “Positiestrijd in het peloton”

    A battle for position in the peloton

    By Hans van Halteren

    Een puur denkspel om de eindzege.

    A pure thinking game for the overall win.

    The magazine (in Dutch) (opens in a new tab)

What players take away

Players who tried it at festivals loved it. Three points keep coming up, with the piece of the game that shows them:

The players’ reviews, good and less good, are public on the game’s page.Mind Cycling on BoardGameGeek

  1. The relay: no more than three riders in the train.

    The tactics

    Every turn is a decision: ride, take the wheel, take the relay, attack. It has the workings of a real race: the wind, the trains, the roles of sprinter, rouleur and climber. And the game gets deeper the more you play.

  2. The official memo card of the game: normal and tactical moves of the riders
    The memo card: how far each rider moves, on a single card.

    Rules you learn fast

    The game takes a few minutes to explain, and one game quickly leads to another. Some say they know nothing about cycling and enjoyed it all the same.

  3. The wind token of the game, a red and white windsock
    Even the wind follows a rule: one step less for the rider with nobody right in front of him.

    No luck at all

    No dice, no cards: the race is decided by choices, never by a stroke of luck.

Cycling game lists

Eight round-ups of cycling games published online in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. The game appears in one of these eight lists, the one by meilleursvelos.fr. Three predate 2024, the year it came out.

  1. 2021

    • In de Kopgroep

      Cycling board games

      Netherlands, 25 April 2021

    • Velo101

      Cycling board games to give at Christmas

      France, December 2021, updated March 2022

  2. 2023

    • Campustech

      Three cycling board games

      France, September 2023

  3. 2024

    The game comes out

  4. 2025

    • Gus&Co

      Cycling games for World Bicycle Day

      France, 3 June 2025

    • The Philibert blog

      Seven games on a cycling theme

      France, updated 21 August 2025

  5. 2026

    • meilleursvelos.fr

      Cycling games, including Mind Cycling

      France, 7 May 2026

    • Klassiekers Dank U Wel

      Gift ideas for cyclists and racing fans

      Belgium, 2026

Undated: TOUR Magazin, cycling games, buying advice (Germany).

Checked on 3 October 2026.

The box

The Mind Cycling box

Mind Cycling, the game

Recommended price in shops: €45

€39Our price
VAT included

Free delivery to a parcel point: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal.

Options

To write the dedication, Philippe opens the box’s plastic film. A dedication to a first name makes the copy personalised: it can then no longer be returned under the right of withdrawal. One dedication per box: for different first names, add each box separately.

In the game, the “Best Mind Cycling Manager” trophy goes to the player who has won the most medals. The gift set slips it into the box with the signed game: one parcel to wrap.

From 3 boxes, 10% off, applied automatically.

The game

Total VAT included€39

Ages 10 and up. Small parts: not suitable for children under 36 months.

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Delivery, payment and returns

Delivery

To a parcel point

Free

in six countries, with Mondial Relay.

  • Belgium
  • France
  • Netherlands
  • Luxembourg
  • Spain
  • Portugal

Home delivery

  • Belgium
    €6
  • France, Netherlands, Luxembourg
    €8
  • Germanyno parcel point
    €8
  • Spain, Portugal
    €10
  • Italyno parcel point
    €10
  • Rest of the European Unionno parcel point
    €12
  • Switzerland, United Kingdomno parcel point
    €23

Shipped from Belgium.

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Returns and guarantee

14 days

to change your mind after delivery, with the online withdrawal form.

Return postage is at your expense.

2 years

of legal guarantee of conformity.

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