The Game of Mornington Cresent...

[jinnythesquinny]

Dunno if there are any other players out there... but I shall start with a basic opening gambit of:

Hyde Park Corner

[Xavier]

How do you play? I know that's a Tube station in London....

:huh:

[jinnythesquinny]

The best way to learn is to play it. It is basically a game based on tube stations, lists/maps of which are easy to find.... http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/tubemap/images/tm_quad_2h_0309.gif has one.

If you play a tube station... I can then tell you if that's a valid move or not, and explain the move you made if it is valid. There are also Mornington Cresent websites.

You'll pick up the rules fairly quickly.... :ahem:

[Xavier]

Piccadilly Circus

[jinnythesquinny]

Now, the move you just made is valid in this informal situation, but were this a championship game, it would be invalid under proximity rules.

Hartrampf, in 1938, pulled off a similar gambit in the world championship final, thus resulting in the ban such moves in championship matches. He was playing the American, Joseph Zimmermann, who returned with Totteridge & Whetstone which of course left the diagonals open for Hartrampf to do a sideways invert and go to Mornington Crescent, which I should explain is the object of the game!

[Xavier]

Okay... I think I kinda grasp the consept here... :hrm:

[jinnythesquinny]

Of course... I must make my return move.... :ahem:

Highbury & Islington

May I reassure you also that a knowledge of tube or London geography isn't really that necessary.

[Xavier]

I've been to London before...

West Hampsted

[jinnythesquinny]

Excellent! In that case we can bring the Pedestrian Access rules and Long Escalator Bonuses.

I shall return with Arsenal,and take a blue token for my trouble, because I've halved the line velocity on the Northern Line. Any repercussions this may have I will explain as they happen....

Incidentally... when you do hit on The Uber-Rule of Mornington Crescent (and indeed there is one).... don't shout it out..... just yell BINGO! and let your moves prove it...

[jinnythesquinny]

I just found the Games forum... but I think Mornington Crescent still is better fitted to the spam room..... :poke:

[Dave G]

Let me know when the "Book for Dummies" comes out...
:eh:

[jinnythesquinny]

I think I've dropped more than enough hints now....... :tongue:

[jinnythesquinny]

five pearls for the first to message me the Uber-Rule!

:rofl:

[Xavier]

Leicester Square

Always love the pronounciation on this one... :lol:

[Xavier]

jinnythesquinny:

five pearls for the first to message me the Uber-Rule!

:rofl:

I doesn't exist... Google has no record... :lol:

[Dave G]

I'm sorry, I haven't a clue!

:tongue:

[jinnythesquinny]

Dave G.... are you nearly ready to shout BINGO??? :teeth:

Xavier: I just did a long reply about your move and my connection spazzed up and I lost it... but I shall try again....

Not only is your move valid, it's excellent. Take a pink token (worth about four and a half tokens at the current rate) because you've shunted me onto the Circle Line.

Note that in some circumstances (like when playing with a lady), shunting and its partner straddling are considered improper. This has been the case since Victorian times, when Victoria was shunted by Gladstone and never really got over it.

the only thing I can really do in such circumstances is:
Embankment shouting "Mind the Gap!"

this opens the diagonals.

[Xavier]

Morning Cresent?!?!?!?

Black Line, North Bound?

[jinnythesquinny]

with the minor adjustment of declaring "Mornington Crescent" you can be declared the winner.... but no pearls till I get the Uber-Rule :deal:

[Xavier]

Mornington Cresent

That's an interesting game... Why didn't you run from L. Square north? Were you being nice? 'Cuz that's awesome... :yipee:

[Solly]

I just missed it it seems, but I was going to play Holland park, which, since I am left handed, I have to throw a six to be able to do, or I end up in the Beagle Entrapment, and miss three turns while I am lost on the Northern Line.

[Solly]

Can I start a new one, since no one else is here?

Blackfriars (All junctions wild, central line livid, Thameslink closed for maintenance, west bound moves restricted)

[jinnythesquinny]

and should therefore be able to predict my move of Charing Cross, activating all points northwards.

[Solly]

Predicted, yes; expected you to still play it when Mrs Trellis of North Wales bombed out in the 1972 Prestatyn Semi Finals, no. Ah well.

Paddington (Marmalade Gambit, picking up a very sticky Blue token, since I threw a 3)

[Ian Potts]

:huh:

I think I'd better read the rules before I get involved here. Look's fun though.

[Xavier]

When you find those Ian, drop me a PM with a link... :lol:

[Ian Potts]

Well, I just discovered that my pocket diary has an underground map in it, which should be useful...

...but how I post a link to my diary I don't know...

[Xavier]

I've got the underground map, but that doesn't explain the rules... :shifty:...



:wink:

[Ian Potts]

:lol:

:huh:

Ian's frantically studies his undeground map....

...has trouble even finding Mornington Crescent, let alone working out the routes between each place.

It might help if I'd worked in London a bit methinks.

[Ian Potts]

Er here goes...

Aldgate East. Hammersmith & City then shuts down for the night for maintenance work.

[jinnythesquinny]

you swine, you've cut line velocity in quadrants 4a- 89d, including all Victoria line stations south of the river....

and what's worse... you've forced me onto Dollis Hill, where I shall be stuck until "kingdom come", or someone reactivates the diagonals, whichever is sooner....

Incidentally Mrs trellis thinks I'm a heathen for my unorthodox strumping manoevres.

[Solly]

You're not a strumpet whatever she says.

And to prove it:

Dollis Hill (setting up for a nice little loop sequence which should force Ian to leave Xavier in a fairly good position).

[Ian Potts]

:eek:

Um, there's clearly more to this than I though. Gulp, sorry!

I'll go read up on one of those Mornington Crescent websites before my next move maybe!!

:teeth:

[Solly]

:lol:

[jinnythesquinny]

Dollis Hill, getting dizzy.

[Ian Potts]

I visited this site:

http://www.amazonsystems.co.uk/data/morn.htm

And this is what I read:

“There cannot be anyone in the civilised world who does not already know the basic rules of Mornington Crescent, so we shall not insult our readers by re-iterating them here”

Oh dear. Guess I’m one of the uninformed minority. Uncivilised too I guess.

:bonk:

[jinnythesquinny]

As I said at the beginning the best thing to do to learn it is to PLAY IT. Get a tube map, I posted a link before, make guesses at moves and the experts can tell you if its valid. You'll soon, HONESTLY, see a pattern emerging....

:poke:

[Xmansmommy]

:lol: ....I'm gonna watch for a while. :doh:

[Solly]

Argh, Jinny, Neasden Lock beckons if you are not careful, and Ian doesn't get his act together.

Let's try: Tooting Bec It is legal, it might not be fair, but it is legal and it gets the diagonals activated although watch out for Escalators on all eastbounds.

[jinnythesquinny]

how can people get through long car journeys without Mornington Crescent???

:bonk:

[Xmansmommy]

Can I ask a ridiculous question?

[Solly]

If they're Yanks they invade somebody, or spot Piggly Wigglies. That's why the British are the best.

[jinnythesquinny]

Camden Town, with a half-shunt for all players in the vicinity of Bank. I'm closing in but lack the relevant podumes (a synonym for tokens new players will counter often in older texts) to hit MC this turn.

New players should note that you don't "pass" or "knock" in MC, you "farkle".

[Xmansmommy]

I'll take that as a yes. :wink:

[stupid question]What is a tube map?[/sq] :huh:

[themuzicman]

http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/guru/index.asp (for cheaters)

[Solly]

Hah, I challenge you at Elephant and Castle, and you must forfeit your pink and yellow tokens. See if you can get clear of Dollis Hill this time!!

[Xmansmommy]

Hey I resemble that remark!....I think. :teeth:

[Xmansmommy]

NOT that it helps much. :hrm:

[Solly]

Learn the uber-rule

[Solly]

heh heh, Have I got her in a three sided block, and Rush Hour constriction?

[jinnythesquinny]

I have in my hand the legendary Black Podume of Aleister Crowley, known in some circles as "the podume of infinite darkness". If I have to go back to Dollis Hill I will use it, I tells ya. AND THEN you'll be SORRY.

Invoking Stollingley's Paradox, I'm at Ongar. En route I have left a suspect package at St Pauls.

Hah! What do you make of that then? :poke:

[Solly]

Charing Cross playing the '72 rules amendment allowing "Kangaroo Hopping". so close, so close...

[jinnythesquinny]

White City

'nuff said.

[Solly]

Hate to do this to a lady. but since its you...

Embankment WIDE open! But still cruising quite dangerously near the Bakerloo. Hopefully you never saw the amendment to Rule 1345/89, or the Graaf-Bandersnatch game in 81

[jinnythesquinny]

Maybe we should set up a "Mornington Crescent 101" thread? it would cover the basics of shunting, straddling, podumes, diagonals, escalators, line velocity, lividity, and strumping?

[Ian Potts]

Today @ 04:45 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=369829#post369829)
jinnythesquinny:

how can people get through long car journeys without Mornington Crescent???

:bonk:

As the member of our household that does most of the driving I usually have my eyes firmly fixed on the road!! :wink:

But I can see how this might keep my passengers completely baffled for a while....

:ahem:

[Solly]

Get on with the game girl, I smell blood

[jinnythesquinny]

I beat Graaf in the 1996 Open. Are you scared yet?

I shall make exactly the move I made in 96. Bounds Green, half-strile, closing the East London Line and awarding myself a purple podume (which for newbies is worth five-eighths of a gold)

[Solly]

Fulham Broadway raising diagonals to level 3. I mean business.

[Ian Potts]

Moorgate. And we have now closed Metropolitan line for 40 minutes to allow the coal train to pass through.

[Solly]

Argh sm38

Wimbledon, local velocities in force, no buffet car

[jinnythesquinny]

You silly fools, you've paved the way for me to get to Blackfriars, line velocity now at nil on all lines.

[Solly]

Sheesh, and I thought you were a level 6 master :doh:

Warren Street , preterist timetable, no gaps to mind, all tokens temporarily invalid.

[jinnythesquinny]

I'm actually the Grand Poobah, level 12, of the Woolwich SE18 MC Society. you were clearly taken in by my diversion.... Stanmore, and you're all in knip.

[Solly]

Fairlop playing defensive for a moment, to avoid a Gumby manoeuvure. Level 12 of Woolwich? Don't make me laugh.

/ot btw, that avatar may be considered offensive, be careful

[themuzicman]

(You going to use the brighton handicap?)

[jinnythesquinny]

Golders Green, and I'll have you know Woolwich is a hotbed of MC activity.

Never mind Brighton, are we going for a Long Game?

[Solly]

Spot the tyro :haha:

[jinnythesquinny]

I'll keep it up until I get a complaint. :noid:

[Solly]

Not too long, I'm going home soon.

King's Cross St. Pancras Another straddle, avoiding your shunt which I could see coming a mile away.

[jinnythesquinny]

Foiled again! I'm forced to farkle.

[Solly]

Goodge Street Sneaking by in the slipstream from that escape to reverse the Circle and keep you in hold, until...

[jinnythesquinny]

North Greenwich, for the Dome. Line Velocity reignited, all points open.

[Solly]

Too late.

Mornington Crescent. Done. Check the reverse alignment on the Circle line, it does wonders!!

[Solly]

Where'd everybody else go?

[jinnythesquinny]

dazzled by our immense skill? perturbed by my avatar?

[themuzicman]

Confused to no end?

[jinnythesquinny]

either way :hrm:

[Solly]

:lol: Mornington Crescent and Cricket. The keys to ruling the world. only the first two got more interesting.

[themuzicman]

I can't find audio transcripts of "Sorry, I haven't a clue", so that doesn't help much.

[jinnythesquinny]

the BBC website has the latest I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on it... let me get you a direct link....

[Xavier]

Stunning... I got lost when y'all said I was still playing... :shifty:

[themuzicman]

Let's play a novice game.. I'll start...

MORNINGTON CRESCENT .... I win. Nice game!

[jinnythesquinny]

that is known as "Ultimate Quickfire Patience Mornington Crescent".

:tongue:

[themuzicman]

It's also the "Tweb Variation"

[Ian Potts]

Today @ 05:17 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=369914#post369914)
Solly:

Where'd everybody else go?

To umpteen Mornington Crecent sites, none of which have helped me understand one bit of what is going on here.....!!

(BTW - Yes, I for one find Jinny's avatar offensive. This is a Christian site. Sorry, but could you change it please?? Thanks.)

[Solly]

ISIHAG is off air at the moment.

[jinnythesquinny]

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue has finished this series-- silly me didn't realise-- did you find the bbc page for it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/clue.shtml

[themuzicman]

Yes, I've found a few pages dedicated to the show.

[jinnythesquinny]

looking for a less offensive bit of Nemi for my cartoon avatar..... this standard one actually looks quite like me....

[Ian Potts]

Thanks Jinny.

:smile:

[Solly]

thanks Jinny

[themuzicman]

Rules removed per request

/hide sort of...

/hide Ian - don't look too hard. There aren't any rules, except that one must reach Mornington Crescent using humor and style.

/hide It's a bit like an RPG, in that you're supposed to tell a story as the game goes along (which is the point of things like coal trains and buffet cars), and when you reach a point in the story (and in the tube) where it seems right to go to Mornington Crescent, you do so. Follow the dialogue of the previous game, and you'll see what I mean. (Am I right?)

:teeth:

[jinnythesquinny]

take that down! you're blowing the secret... :nc:

[themuzicman]

DO I GET THE PEARLS?!?!?

[Solly]

Yeah, catch :rock:

[themuzicman]

Happy?

[jinnythesquinny]

it won't let me give muzic any more pearls...?

[Ian Potts]

:doh:

I turn my eyes for a moment, Michael posts the rules, I come back and he's taken them down again!!!

:argh:

Still thoroughly in the dark on this one....

[jinnythesquinny]

:rofl:

[jinnythesquinny]

He posted the Uber-Rule.... which violates the Uber-Rule :-)
and now I can't give the five pearls I promised for some reason, it says I've done too many.... but I've only given one!

[Xavier]

I didn't see... I was changing classes... :frown:

[jinnythesquinny]

excellent! :lol:

[Xavier]

:bawl:

[jinnythesquinny]

it was a very well expressed Uber-Rule too... heheheh

Anyway.... Southwark. Standard opening gambit, no surprises.

[Ian Potts]

Well, I'll be offline 'till Monday probably now, but maybe by then my brain will be working and I can join in the fun a little more intelligently.... although I have a strange feeling that that might not be the idea anyway...

Bye!

:smile:

[jinnythesquinny]

it'll come to ya....

[Xavier]

Canada Water

[jinnythesquinny]

oooh, smooth manoever. I shall strump you with Parson's Green which commences a Religious Cascade.

Note that this means all stations posted, until the cascade is broken, must have a religious bent.

[Xavier]

Then I shall move:

Temple

[jinnythesquinny]

Blackfriars

[Xavier]

Whitechapel

[jinnythesquinny]

Mornington Crescent!

[Xavier]

Whoa... How'd you get there???? :hrm:

[jinnythesquinny]

To clarify: Crescent being a symbol of the religion Islam, a left-hand shunt moving into Official Busker's Zone allows me to switch religion at the drop of a hat.

:whip:

[Xavier]

I meant Physically... As in how'd you get from Point A to Point B... Though, I'm beginning to realize the point of all of this...

Care to hunt some snipe sometime.... :lol:

[jinnythesquinny]

if I'd specified an Ecclesiastical Cascade instead of a Religious Cascade it would of course have been completely illegal.

Other cascades are: Parks & Green, Dollis Hill, and the Central Line Vortex.

[jinnythesquinny]

Thinking about it... hmmm..... I'd go from Whitechapel on the Central Line, change onto the northern line at Moorgate, then change onto the other branch at Euston.

Though that's doing it from memory... I might think differently if I looked at a map....

[Xavier]

Then isn't it logical that from any station on the map you could make it to any other station... :lol:

[jinnythesquinny]

it's the application of various influences, precedents and rule sets that dictate where you can go on the board; physical travel has very little to do with it.

Of course in Tudor times one could play moves valid "by horse" but it is believed that when Cardinal Wolsey trumped Henry VIII using a by horse move, he forged his own downfall, and horse moves soon fell out of fashion.

[Xavier]

I was kind of wondering how Victoria would have played using Tube Stations... :lol:

[jinnythesquinny]

because Victoria is a Tube station. It serves the Victoria line, the District & Circle lines, and possibly one other line too. I forget.

Most mainline stations have tube stations as part of the complex, and most of them are on the Circle Line, which was designed to link up the big termini.

The exception is Charing Cross, but it's a recent exception, until the 70s Embankment station on the District & Circle line was known as "Charing Cross (Embankment)" and it's less than a hundred yards from the mainline station. The current Charing Cross tube station was originally called Strand or Trafalgar Square, but with the opening of the Jubilee line in the 70s the ticket hall was moved closer to the mainline station and became Charing Cross. The Jubilee line no longer serves Charing Cross and that section has become a "ghost station".

I'm just being geeky now....
:bonk:

[Xavier]

Oh... I thought earlier you mentioned a gambit that QUEEN Victoria used... But nevermind I guess... :lol:

[jinnythesquinny]

yes, it's a fine example of the amazing possibilities of Mornington Crescent. The game has been played since Roman times, and obviously there were no tube stations then, just a network of sewers in which ran small carts driven by the old British dwarfs. They would charge three coppers to carry people and goods from the site of Bank station to the site of Westminster station, because even in those days London traffic was bad.

It is more a case of, the tube put stations where there were points in the game, rather than the game being based on the tube.

[jinnythesquinny]

sorry about being so literally minded when I read the post about Victoria, it's because I'm a literally minded kinda chick:teeth:

[jinnythesquinny]

... and I really like trains.... :rofl:

[Xavier]

:teeth:

[jinnythesquinny]

welcome to mornington crescent... the first rule of mornington crescent is... you do not talk about mornington crescent... the second rule of mornington crescent is.... everyone must put £1 into the tea and biscuits kitty, if they can afford it.

:cheers:

[Xavier]

Do you take American Dollars or do I have to visit the AmEx office? :doh:

[jinnythesquinny]

You need to send a postal order or cheque to Mrs Trellis.

[Xavier]

Still going to have conversion "issues" and my bank doesn't accept Check Transactions from (or to) overseas right now... :shifty:

[jinnythesquinny]

We can wait for your nugget matey, have a "custard cream" and a cuppa tea anyway.

My opening gambit is:
High Barnet, declaring Zappa's Deviations in force. No token stacks in the outer quadrants, odd stations are wild.

[TheAnalogman]

Hey! I haven't heard that since the mita confundrum in Tokyo!

[jinnythesquinny]

I like to occasionally make a risky opening gambit. It's good to see how new players react to them.

[TheAnalogman]

Archway......it is Friday and it is winter!

[jinnythesquinny]

Swiss Cottage, turnwise moves now truncated.

[TheAnalogman]

Gaaaaaa! Chungas revenge! good move. Counter with 3 tokens per intersection. Holland Park!

[jinnythesquinny]

*farkle*

[TheAnalogman]

:argh: again?

[TheAnalogman]

Russel Square, turnsides abated until Green line is finished

[jinnythesquinny]

Kentish Town, putting all players into knurd and reversing the polarity of the circle line.

[jinnythesquinny]

when you say "green line" would that be The District Line?

I once did one of those silly internet tests and found out that if I were a tube line, I'd be the District line.

I'm sure it makes sense somehow
:hrm:

[TheAnalogman]

Ummmmm, no. Green line is Green line. The District line can only be used (suprised you thought of it, actually) when the access restriction has BEEN lifted.

[TheAnalogman]

St. James Park! White City and follows is restricted.

[Xavier]

I thought it was only closed on the weekends... :hrm:

[TheAnalogman]

:lmbo: :lmbo: :lmbo: :lmbo: When is the LAST TIME you read chapter 2 of the rulebook???

[Xavier]

Chapter 2 was carelessly ripped out by my previous tutor saying "Chapter 2 is HOGWASH, Those writers couldn't rule their way out of a wet paper bag..."

[jinnythesquinny]

Russell Square, ghost stations open, all diagonals are now shifted. knurd has been lifted on all players with the correct podume.

[TheAnalogman]

:doh:
Bow Church. Rhyming slang for turnstiles only. No false didectums.
(gotcha now!)

[jinnythesquinny]

Hmmm, that is difficult.

But...

If I place a blue podume *here*, *here* and *here*, thus de-cripping the Central Line, it opens up the Docklands Light Railway (services with guards only) and almost incidentally allows me to play:
Wembley Park.

Which should wreak the appropriate havoc with ratios in zones 4,5 and 6.

[TheAnalogman]

Cut! Stop! Wrong! What about the middle view?? Huh? Huh? Noone is allowed to put that blue thingy on the third placement. You're dead in your tracks for now.........
Devons Road. Switch lanes

[jinnythesquinny]

You've ignored Rules and Amendments 2003 Book 1, Section VIII, part P, subsection xxxix, which clearly states "in informal situations the middle view is irrelevant due to the lack of restriction on shunting across diagonals, assuming a suitable Deviation or Precedent is in play."

Hainault. Three tokens awarded to all players except those hubwards of Moorgate.

[TheAnalogman]

Tottenham Court Road. A great intersection. The 1967 world tournament exception DOES NOT validate the "restriction on shunting across diagonals" as you stated. Escalator and elevator block!

[jinnythesquinny]

leaving a suspect package at King's Cross St Pancras, I am able to move on to Green Park, which would traditionally start a Parks & Greens Cascade, but you can nullify it of course...

I wouldn't fain to tell an expert like youself how... but make sure you explain it for the people trying to work out the rules....

:poke:

[TheAnalogman]

Expert?? Yeah right! I will however assist those that have a question or 2 about the rules. Spread the word. I won't nullify right now as I am going home. PM me Monday when you wish to continue. Where's the Tiger??
(I do often have difficulty with the packages. To me its more difficult than chess!)

[Xavier]

El Tigre is nigh... :xav:

[jinnythesquinny]

We can put this game into a Dollis Hill vortex till Monday.

If anyone is up for another one.... do start.....

[Xavier]

Elephant and Castle

I also invoke the Parsing Rule laid after the Great Convention of 1849.... "All Stations hither to must begin with the same letter as the last played station."

[jinnythesquinny]

Edgeware Road

[Xavier]

Dollis Hill

[jinnythesquinny]

You just had to do it, didn't you?????

Dollis Hill

Don't make me use Crowley's podume...
:shifty:

[Xavier]

jinnythesquinny:

Don't make me use Crowley's podume...
:shifty:

Crowley's podume won't help a bit....

Lancaster Gate

Mind the Gap (and the Parsing Rule of 1849)...

[jinnythesquinny]

Shepherds Bush, inverse proportional shift in application in central area.

[Xavier]

Fine, Exterior Diagonals are now open with the stunning move across the river to:

Greenwich

[jinnythesquinny]

You are currently about two miles away from where I am currently sat then!

Anyway, my move is:
Liverpool Street

[Xavier]

Say Hi to Holmes won't you as we travel to:

Baker Street

[jinnythesquinny]

Morningto..... oh no wait, I don't have the line velocity... darn it.... I shall have to get back to Euston (City Branch) until the passenger action is scraped off the rails at Embankment...

[Xavier]

Oooo, It does hurt to be so close...

Notting Hill Gate

:teeth:

[jinnythesquinny]

Overshooting to Borough

Incidentally, on the tube, "passenger action" is a euphemism for "Some schmuck threw themselves in front of a train". I think.

[jinnythesquinny]

I was right
http://www.mustardmag.org/issue1/tubesafety.htm

[Xavier]

Invoking Napolean's Revenge:

Waterloo

(4999)

[jinnythesquinny]

Bank, indicating.

[Xavier]

Highgate, acknowledged

[jinnythesquinny]

damn that line velocity.... *farkle*

[Xavier]

Charing Cross

A Strike disallows moving past Zone 3...

[jinnythesquinny]

I'm better off staying here than moving, hence the farkling

[jinnythesquinny]

Bermondsey, Escalators now worth double.

[Xavier]

Another game hit the Vortex...

Later...

[Xavier]

:bump:

Paddington

[jinnythesquinny]

Tottenham Court Road, using the diagonals.

[Xavier]

Line Velocity... :shifty:

London Bridge

[jinnythesquinny]

Warren Street, likewise.

[Xavier]

Camden Town, on a Sunday no less...

[jinnythesquinny]

I hope you didn't too squished, or have your pocket picked....

North Greenwich, asserting Connolly's Paradox and nullifying quadrants 34a-87c.

[Xavier]

St. Paul's, feed the birds...

[jinnythesquinny]

(if this was championship MC I'd have to buzz you there, St Pauls is currently in spoon and thus in championships cannot be played unless Hogg's Exceptions are in force.)

But it isn't and they aren't, so Barbican.

[Ian Potts]

Ian returns to the fray after through research into MC rules and regulations....

Holborn (District line closed for maintenance)

[jinnythesquinny]

Paddington (Hammersmith & City Line)

spin has been trebled for all players South of the River

[Ian Potts]

King's Cross (Access to New Passengers on the Northern line prevented, whilst security alerts are checked at all stations)

[jinnythesquinny]

Baker Street, gawping at the original features and boring everyone to death with my description of the Circle/H&C Line C-Stock (and why the Edgware Road branch of the District line uses them instead of District line D-stock).

[Ian Potts]

Well, the security alert has lifted, so Ian's arrives on time at...

Mornington Crescent

:teeth:

[Xavier]

Blast.... 3 days only to be beaten by the Level 23 expert... :shifty:

[Ian Potts]

:whistle:

Oops, sorry Xavier.

New game?

Earl's Court

[jinnythesquinny]

Now, if Fordham's Peculiar Deviations were in play, I could put you all in knip.... oh hell, he *did* win the darts... so.... Fordham's it is, I'm at Bond Street and you're all in knip.

[themuzicman]

Wimbledon. Turn in all blue and yellow tokens. Circle and Yellow lines closed due to suprise royal inspection.

[themuzicman]

:bump:

[Ian Potts]

Charing Cross. Central line has just been flooded by orange juice.

[themuzicman]

Queensway.

[Ian Potts]

Marylebone. Power cut affects all lines for the next 20 minutes. London Underground admin suggest that passengers sing or play word games until power is restored.

[themuzicman]

Horrid English singing motivated workers to finish repairs in 10 minutes. :egad:

Baker Street. Consider yourself mated.

[Ian Potts]

Oh well. It seems very quiet in the tubes now. All glum faces.

I'm off to...

Queen's Park Trains on Bakerloo, Circle, and Hammersmith & City all delayed for another 45 minutes owing to huge amount of Queens Park Rangers fans trying to make kick off time...

[themuzicman]

I appear to be shunted.

Thus, to complete the Queen's trio and 8 blue tokens...

Queensbury. Bethlehem rules in effect. All Kings, shephards, and donkey related stations count double.

[Ian Potts]

Donkey related?

Donkey related?

Hmm. That's a toughie.

Howzabout....

Chalk Farm (Renowned breeder of pedigree mules) Ta-ding, double points here they come!

Egyptian rules now apply. Pyramids, Pharoah, plagues, sand. That sort of station is open, all others firmly shut.

[themuzicman]

Pimlico is a dirt (sand) horse track in the US.

Egyptian rules remain in effect.

[Ian Potts]

Golders Green (Well a lot of Jews live there, just like in Goshen, Egypt).

Egyptian Rules still firmly in effect.

[themuzicman]

Elephant and Castle (there's elephants in all those old Egyptian movies, right?)

moreton’s convention in effect - Horizontal play is only permissible when a pursuant has been Huffed, and main line stations are wild.

(I had hoped you'd keep the egyptian rules in place...)

[Ian Potts]

Ouch, you shunted me. You're too good at this, I realise I'm on a sinking ship.

Waterloo

Battle rules apply.

[themuzicman]

Too late. Northern line north to (ta da!)

Mornington Crescent.

[Ian Potts]

:bawl:

You are WAY too good at this.

But well done, Michael the MC Man!

:yipee: :yipee: :yipee:

[themuzicman]

It was dumb luck. Beginner's luck, even.

I thought you had me at Wimbledon.

Well played.

[themuzicman]

Hyde Park Corner. Circle line counter clockwise is closed because some Welshman fried himself on the track.

[themuzicman]

:bump:

[jinnythesquinny]

Queensway.

Welshmen are worth double on Sundays.

[nomad]

i think i understand this... i'll take a shot...but i don't know the tube map that well...

Charleston

double tokens for single riders, single malts for double shunts, double big macs get you a triple coronary bypass.

cavorting with americans is discouraged, green line disabled next turn.

[themuzicman]

Leicester Square

District line closed for infestation risk. The Wombles are loose in Wimbledon.

[Ian Potts]

Shepherd's Bush (where they are busy filming the latest Wombles episode).

OK, I liked it before, so here goes, Egyptian Rules apply for next three stations!

[themuzicman]

I'll resort to my last refuge in Elephant & Castle, and 4 pink tokens.

[Ian Potts]

On to Embankment then. (I believe there used to be one of those Egyptian column thingies along there - the name escapes me). Egyptian rules still on....

[themuzicman]

Blackhorse road (Sounds like an arabian to me...)

4 more pink tokens.

Bakerloo closed because train conductor is stuck in the loo.

[Ian Potts]

Camden Town.

:doh: Missed it, train went too fast, I blinked, missed the doors opening. Too many people in my carriage to make the exit.....

Anyway, Russian rules apply now, and no diagonals.

[themuzicman]

:doh: I see you've blocked me in..


Seven Sisters.. Who are all very hospitable, so 8 blue tokens.

Speed rules apply. Trains only stop every 5 stations.

[Ian Potts]

Thanks very much....

Old Street then. Sigh. But at least I got 12 pink tokens on the way - cool!

Lateral reverse rules apply. Power down to 10%.

[themuzicman]

Euston Square. (Hoping this strategy isn't too late to employ.)

Football rules apply. Only stations with local football teams allowed.

[Ian Potts]

Nice move. Stylishly employed.

Queen's Park

Now here's a good one: in the interests of attracting more players...

PROXY rules apply. Someone else has to play your turn for you (please state whom you're playing on behalf of...)

Football rules also apply.

[Solly]

I'm posting this for themuzicman:




*cough*Arsenal*cough*. Proxy rules remain in effect.

[Ian Potts]

:rant:

I've waited long enough!

Come on folks, it's proxy rules. I need someone to play my turn for me. Pick a station name with a football team associated.
It's easy really....

[themuzicman]

(You could go ask someone to do it? :doh:)

[Ian Potts]

I might in due course, but it smacks a bit of desperation doesn't it?

Doesn't anyone out there want to do me a favour?

Go on, join in the fun. MC is a great game. You'll get to like it.

Tell you what! Five pearls to the first person to proxy for me!!

(Ian resorts to bribery....ugh)

[Solly]

For ian

Chelsea, red card for overtaking on the Piccadilly Line

[Ian Potts]

We crossed in the post Solly. Was that a Proxy for me?

Aha, you edited the post! Yes it was.

OK, 5 pearls on there way...

[themuzicman]

Piccadilly Circus

(Is Chelsea a station?)

All Central line trains full for the next 30 minutes.

[Ian Potts]

Today @ 03:37 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=379995#post379995)
themuzicman:

Piccadilly Circus

(Is Chelsea a station?)

All Central line trains full for the next 30 minutes.

Um, before I respond, don't proxy rules still apply until someone states otherwise?

[themuzicman]

I thought they only continued when they were renewed by each successive post, unless a number of posts is specificed.

[Ian Potts]

Yes, but only in the A.A. Hedgemann gaming rules. We're using Zoldervan's ruleset which clearly states that when in proxy the proxy player must state that proxy is now off.

Anyway, to get over this hurdle, I'll proxy for you, replay your move and turn proxy off. Ok?

Piccadilly Circus

(Is Chelsea a station?)

All Central line trains full for the next 30 minutes.

PROXY off!

[Ian Potts]

Marylebone (Reverse side step play. 4 blue tokens.
Northward moves only apply)

[themuzicman]

(I forgot that Solly is a level 6 grand master.)

Oxford Circus. Northward rules still in effect.

[Ian Potts]

You blocked me! Aargh.

Oh well, I'll give you 8 pink tokens to buy myself a rule getout..

To allow me to go to

Great Portland Street

Power tripled, trains running REEAAALLLY fast now.

Relay rules apply for next 20 moves. (Relay rules mean either you can play your turn or a proxy can play for you - they must name you - at will, but if the move wins, you win.) :grin:

[themuzicman]

Warren Street.

Wimbledon closed due to some tennis tourney. District line trains full for 25 minutes.

[themuzicman]

For Ian:

Oakwood. Reverse Russian rules in effect. Diagonals only for the next two moves. Relay rules no longer in effect.

[themuzicman]

Mornington Crescent. Those relay rules are interesting... :doh:

[Ian Potts]

:doh:

Direct opponents aren't supposed to be able to take your own batton.... Oh well. I'll give it a miss this time.

Well done MC king!!

:wink:

[themuzicman]

Actually, I'm outta here in about 30 mins, so I needed to wind things up...

[Ian Potts]

Same here.

Enjoyed the game though Michael. We're both improving our skills I think...

:noid:

[jinnythesquinny]

Right.

Chelsea is not a station.

So you can all give me a black token.

Swiss Cottage

[Ian Potts]

Today @ 04:54 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=380073#post380073)
jinnythesquinny:

Right.

Chelsea is not a station.

So you can all give me a black token.

Swiss Cottage

Yeh, and who posted Chelsea?

Solly, a level 6 master no less!

(Trouble is he did it on proxy for me, so I guess the guilt passes by proxy to me. Yikes.
:doh: )

[jinnythesquinny]

I said.... Swiss Cottage!
:hrm:

[nomad]

fine...

Lord's Cricket Grounds

via the famous Chesterfield Sofa manouvre.

even odds on odd stations, even stations get a line velocity bonus of 3. plaid stations wild.

[jinnythesquinny]

Plaid? You don't mean..... *awed silence*

Mel's Midair Variations?

In that case.... it can only be... Pimlico.

[nomad]

ooh, didn't see that one coming. will have to save my munchhausen gambit for another time.

Preakness

security watch in effect. movement near heathrow is restricted to 1/4 line velocity. straddles are now allowed (but not very ladylike).

[jinnythesquinny]

If we're going there, I shall go to Morningside Crescent (Edinburgh)