[Closed] how to get to mornington crescent?

Are we using Trumpington's Variations?

It's after 4 so yes

Northfields

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I was at MC last night - there's only one lift operating atm so the dual transit rule is in effect.

Pigface: You can't make semi-lateral moves on a Friday.

Emsz; back out of this one love. Quickly. Trust me. This way, madness lies. 😯

(S'a thing for doddery crusty old blokes, innit? No place for a young lady such as yerself)

Crouch Hill - boo yay!

absolutely love the madness of MC, but haven't a clue how to play! I tried looking up the rules and they didn't make much sense either...

CaptJon: well played sir!
dawson: haven't you read Stovold?

Crouch Hill - boo yay!

Pffft. Amateur. It's two moves to Broad Green and then you're totally exposed to the Hammersmith jink.

Dawson that is clearly the Sydenham slide you are trying to play. Very clever but I won't be fooled again.

graham, with the yalta revision of 1917 you can.

Stovold was revoked after a Munich intervention. A unilateral agreement was reached to apply Henley. As such, Embankment.

Box Hill.

Ok then, this has got a bit sterile, so let's get things really moving...

Mile End.

Yes, I know! 😀

Pffft. Amateur. It's two moves to Broad Green and then you're totally exposed to the Hammersmith jink.

The Hammersmith Jink is a piece of p*** when you were schooled in Rayners Lane.

Where on earth did you get the idea that Hsmith jinx was still operating??? There is a cloverleaf now that switches round the back of Putney Green & lets you out at Kentish Fields. Tis the only way I tell you.

Sorry. I thought you were playing Tudor Court rules.

London Bridge.

London Bridge hey?

But you have to bear in mind Embankment with the Henley variation..

It must be..

St Pauls & walk..

Yes that will do it.

Barbican, western via Moorgate.

Dollis Hill 🙂

Westminster

EDIT: (A rather good use of long play if I say so myself 😉 ).

Can I make a nagelly to Victoria?

Short answer: no.

Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Ooh, dunno Graham; only if you're going by the Hattersley Edict (Alperton Revision), and I'm not sure if you can use that effectively in this situation. 😐

I'm going with Highbury and Islington via Dalston Junction. I feel this could well be a decisive move.. 😉

WTF?

really is this some sort of code?

As I live in Norway and am therefore playing by the Zurich playground arrangement of 1853 an also in agreement with what Barry Cryer once said, "Oslo Central"

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Oslo Central? Well I'm going to stamp on this right away. Marshall's Folly (Scandinavian Variant) is poor form, old boy. Very poor form.

Theydon Bois.

Dalston Junction?

Depends..3 men on the legside ruling or not? (Calcutta version 1952)..

Graham S it is still British Summer time so Northfields was a legitamate move, not spectacular but a solid start. Play the game and stop being so Rollandish 🙂

Emsz; I warned you, don't get involved. Nothing good can come of this. 🙁

Theydon Bois.

Ooh, [i]good[/i] move.

Depends..3 men on the legside ruling or not? (Calcutta version 1952)..

Can't be applied in this case. New line, so isn't affected by that ruling.

King George V. 8)

King George V.

Due to the time difference to here, would Chancery Lane still be permissible?

Blokes
weird, your all weird

Think Chancery Lane is still subject to the Camden Caveat following the busking experiment, I'd suggest an Ox Bow follow through via Covent Garden

Waterloo

Mornington Crescent!

EDIT: Can't believe nobody spotted the Fothering Meta-Shunt.

<Smattering of polite applause>

ooh sneaky. bravo sir, bravo.

Yeah, well done! 😀

Thought for a moment there had bin some impropriety but on closer examination, it appears he's used the Maida Vale Confluence to fantastic effect there. Chapeau!

Not sure about this result. The 1862 addendum to the Hailstone process, and I quote, ' a player following a directional move with any station on the jubilee line is placed in Nidd' and 16stonepig should surely have sat out the next three moves?

Ooh yeah, he could be right you know! Haddunt considered that.

Think this calls for a STWards Enquiry. 😐

Best get some supplies in; we may be here for some time....

only if he's from Yorkshire

Seeing as how I've spent most of this week looking at fitting 2 Heavy Duty Metro escalators with an inclined lift inside a sprayed concrete shaft - I'll go for Royal Oak.

pfft, on that basis I'm using the 1815 Convention to go straight through to Waterloo

Are we stacking the perpendicular?

of course

In that case, Goodge Street. The hard way.

The Hon. Mr Justice Tugendhat (Queen's Bench Division) recently ruled against that I'm sure.

So, Brent Cross.

I'm jumping at least two diagonals to avoid nip. I'm adding in the Rapture Transactional rules since today we're due to all die or something.

Therefore Kings Cross.

Green Park. Obviously.

Just a rule clarification,

Not sure about this result. The 1862 addendum to the Hailstone process, and I quote, ' a player following a directional move with any station on the jubilee line is placed in Nidd

I believe my esteemed colleague is confusing Nidd with Knipp. Had play been in Knipp then absolutely, you lose turns. Nidd in this context merely means that the Bakerloo line is out of bounds for a single turn (unless you're carrying a purple token of course). The MC claim is valid, and continued play is correct.

So. Green Park. I see what you did there, but I'm not falling for that. Shunt to Acton.

Acton to......uxbridge. Just to provide some sporting challenge.

Let's see who the real players are now......

I've waited years for this sequence of plays.... 😀

All change!

Tooting Broadway.

Upney

Well, seeing as he's just done a tenor sax solo - Stepney Green.

The Web Ellis Jump allows us to visit either nation on the weekend of the final, so we're off to Saint-Lazare which gives many options for the more experienced left handed users of the Metro.

Richelieu-Drouot.

Bonne chance!

Four lane ends.

Tricky move their, I'm pretty sure I can counter that with..........Saint Lazare.

Right.

Enough of this tomfoolery & sideways nonsense.

It's the express from Dover on a SuperSaverSpecial.

hang on, that's clearly triangulation - bond street

paulosoxo - Member
Four lane ends.

The Tyneside gambit.

This calls for surgical precision.....

Harley Street

Chalfont St Giles.

should have gone via harley street too

Hmmm. Bank.

I know on a Saturday too.

But this IS a game for grown-ups so deal with it.

Arsenal by proxy

Jumper on the track leads me back to Arsenal.
Extra move to me, invoking Hooper's Mainline Variation.
I reckon.... Lancaster Gate, which should just about welly paulsoxo back out to Croxley unless someone objects.

Chorleywood.

All together now: "mind the gapp!"

Erm, if I'm not completely mistaken, and via the barnstaple juxtaposition put into play by flashy's chalfont diversion...

can I say, ahem, mornington crescent?

edit: no. amateurish. I'm in nidd. dagnammit.

I was just about to say, Pook, you really shouldn't just make up rules. Good edit.

Grange Hill.

You're forgetting the DLR extension.

Mornington Crescent.

I don't recall the Hapsburg Convention having been invoked?
Surely the best you could hope for is a Cross Blocker, with pedestrianised areas counting triple?

Cougar, sorry to urinate (and defecate) on your chips, but I think you'll find, that the DLR has already bin mentioned... 8)

In which case, I'm afraid I'm going to have to invoke the Abbey Mills directive, which clearly states that 'Contravention of the Neasden Treaty of 1918, knowingly or otherwise, will result in the move being declared null and void, and carry the penalty of a five-move suspension for the player attemtpting such a move'.

Sorry, but I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. 😐

I'm going to take advantage of a points failure at Earls Court to make a neat segue to Colindale. 🙂

Damn and blast. Of course.

As I'm playing in Jordan and the dead sea is already 400m below sea level I assume essential maintenance on the down escalator at Oxford Circus will not affect my move; so I'm going for King Hussein Street.

I was going to make my next move West Bank, but I see that's disputed.......