Mornington Crescent Poll

[jinnythesquinny]

Choose your favourite standard deviation! This will then become the House Standard and be taken as read in all games here.

[Em7add11]

Man, just when I thought I had figured this game out.

:doh:

[Ric]

:huh: :pardon:

[garthoverman]

I voted for the North Wales Hump, but that's because I generally play according to the 1948 Rutherford Convention rule set.

[themuzicman]

Standard game is fine...

[jinnythesquinny]

I'm surprised no-one has voted for Bassoon, but I appreciate the shunting and straddling manoevres involved aren't everyone's taste...

:hrm:

[Ric]

:pardon: :huh: :???: :thud: :whyme:

[Rubia Warren]

What is this? What is this game?

[Ric]

:pardon: :pardon: :pardon:

[Dave G]

Today @ 12:28 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=377995#post377995)
jinnythesquinny:

I'm surprised no-one has voted for Bassoon, but I appreciate the shunting and straddling manoevres involved aren't everyone's taste...

:hrm:

We are rather provincial...

[Ric]

Can anyone tell us what this is all about? :huh:

[Xavier]

Why would I want to insult your intellegence... :wink:

[Ian Potts]

I really like the Egyptian Rules which Michael and I used the other day.

[jinnythesquinny]

I think with hindsight the Hump makes the best rule for internet play, since it allows for the trust factor involved, given that we can't see each other's boards or token stacks.

I suspect sometimes Potts is playing with the 1983 "Misprint" board set, which has misnumbered the prime quadrants.

have spilled coffee all over self desk and pooter... brb

[Ian Potts]

Today @ 04:58 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=380076#post380076)
jinnythesquinny:

I suspect sometimes Potts is playing with the 1983 "Misprint" board set, which has misnumbered the prime quadrants.


....so that's why!

Thanks!

[Solly]

Careful when Jinny is handing over tokens now, they might be a tad sticky after that coffee spill.

Ian, you can get a replacement board from www.mcsupplies-r.us, or you could, i don't know if the site is still up after they were caught selling bound volumes of the rules mistranslated from the Russian.

[jinnythesquinny]

I have a slightly foxed play set (including "MClite", an effort to explain the basic rulesets, which came in at four volumes) that is free to a good home if you want it, Potts.

If you just need the board I can perhaps pass MClite onto one of the baffled spectators to peruse, although the somewhat unorthodox approach to half-wit trumping in the third volume may confuse the newbie, it still gives a good idea of what's going on when you've read it a few times.

[nomad]

which version of the bassoon extensions are we talking about? if it's the 1744 amended version i'd vote for it, but neither the 1659 original extensions or the 1824 revisions of the amendments really did much for me.

[jinnythesquinny]

It's the 1967 Anniversary Standard on Bassoon I'm talking about; it clears up the issues whilst retaining the form and style of the 1659 edition...

:noid:

"He that shunteth or straddleth on the Sabbath; let him be anathema." - Edicts of Nigel, 1578.

[TheAnalogman]

"He that shunteth or straddleth on the Sabbath; let him be anathema." - Edicts of Nigel, 1578.



:lmbo: :lmbo: :lmbo: :lmbo:

Thats the best I've heard all day!

[jinnythesquinny]

glad to be of service!
:teeth:

[FatHippy]

Granted I am a bit of a purist, but boards and playing pieces, well really! Can we not hold the play in our head.

As for playing rules, it has to be 13th Edition Stovald everytime - the McHenry revisions (allows for roundabouts). Unless of course we are playing Tudor Court.

FatHippy

[jesusfreak]

i don't really read a daily devotional so i don't know

[FatHippy]

Don't read a daily devotional? Well if you are of a traditionalist bent may I recommend "Everyday with Stovald", produced by the Mornington Crescent Union.

Or for younger people "Stovald and Me" by the Campus Crusade for Stovald.