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Shoeburyness.

I'm glad we've stopped pissing about btw.
Rules are rules.
No point playing otherwise.


 
Posted : 21/02/2021 2:10 pm
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Hang on..... shoeburyness
That's hardly cricket is it.
You had better have a good reason for such flagrant disregard.

Anyway finsbury park


 
Posted : 21/02/2021 2:11 pm
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Time to put your big boy pants on.

Finsbury Park?!? Ffs......

Stoke Mandeville. You can have Amersham next if you care so much about A60s.


 
Posted : 21/02/2021 2:40 pm
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Except Amersham requires a replacement bus service to be in play - well, when using the engineering works amendment to the Essex rules which I believe we are playing??? Diagonal move only in those circumstances so Cockfosters I think.


 
Posted : 21/02/2021 3:39 pm
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Diagonal moves are a no go. See post one by Cougar. Because of your flagrant disregard for the rules I’m forced to play Hackney Central. I know it’s an extreme move, doubly so at 16:29 on a Sunday, but I think it’s justified under the circumstances.


 
Posted : 21/02/2021 4:30 pm
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Diagonal moves are a no go

Arghh, hells bells. Schoolboy error.


 
Posted : 21/02/2021 4:40 pm
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You know where you end up when you take a late night Uber whose GPS has broken & you’re too drunk to direct them?

Well, I’m there....

I don’t think it has a name..

I’ll be back when I’ve worked out where I am!


 
Posted : 21/02/2021 6:15 pm
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Stepney Green.

Allowed because the 'Hunt For Red October' precedent says it can, but only in the bottom half of the hour.


 
Posted : 21/02/2021 6:33 pm
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Good to see everyone avoided the Monday morning rush hour trap that was set with the Swiss Cottage play at the top of the page. People obviously paying attention.

Canons Park.


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 10:30 am
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Good to see everyone avoided the Monday morning rush hour trap that was set with the Swiss Cottage play at the top of the page. People obviously paying attention.

It's not amateur night, you know....

Kensal Green


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 10:34 am
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Popping out for a lunchtime beverage
Covent Garden


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 12:58 pm
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Christ, this got brutal fast!

Stonebridge Park. (The place with the stony bridge.)


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 1:05 pm
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Fell into my trap.....

Careful now.....

Seven Sisters


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 1:13 pm
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My cat (previously living at Morden) advised Debden, obviously avoiding the Chigwell loop on Monday.
My cat is not an amateur she holds an MSc in Phsycology.

I confirm Debden.


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 1:22 pm
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My cat is not an amateur she holds an MSc in Phsycology.

Trust a player with nine lives to make such a dastardly move. I'll have to play my canine counter move....

Hornchurch


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 1:34 pm
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I confirm Debden.

Is that even a place?

Gosh, yes, it is. Epping. Who knew. That's a move I don't think I've ever seen, I think we could all learn something from your cat.

I thought I knew this game backwards and I don't have the faintest clue how to move on from here. Has dexa just stalemated the game? Anyone see anything?


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 1:34 pm
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Oooh. Yes. Yes of course. Very clever.

*applause*


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 1:35 pm
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And from there I'll go to Canary Wharf to make things a little less hairy. All change for the DLR!


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 1:38 pm
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Hmm.
I don't think I can do anything until that bloody cat moves again, DLR or not


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 1:50 pm
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Debden was a fairly major RAF base in the Battle of Britain I seem to recall...

Do I get auxiliary nerd points for that?

Oh, and.....

Perivale


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 2:53 pm
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Woah! I thought this was supposed to be a beginners game? Things are heating up like a Rustlers Burger in a 1500kw microwave.

Highbury & Islington on the day saver card!


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 3:05 pm
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Would you Adam & Eve it?

Turns out I’m only on Bow High Road....

Think I’ll give myself a pat on the back & a smattering of applause...


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 3:10 pm
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This is intense.

Time to bunker down and use the Ministry defence.

Brompton Road


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 3:11 pm
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Dollis Hill.


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 3:12 pm
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Brompton road?
Come on even the 1935 updated rules eliminated that closed station
Will give you a chance and move to one of the nearest open stations.
South Kensington


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 3:16 pm
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I still have the keys to Down Street (Piccadilly line). I will be waiting with the Cat at Cyprus.

I confirm Cyprus


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 4:41 pm
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Playing the 'park shift'.

I play....

Tufnell Park


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 4:50 pm
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Park life rules
Hyde park corner


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 7:55 pm
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I’m pulling the trifecta card and going Belsize Park.

Kayleigh is it too late to say I’m sorry?


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 8:26 pm
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Park life rules

2’s company, 3’s a crowd but when in Rome....

Gorky Park.


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 8:35 pm
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Wait a minute. That's twice at Hyde Park Corner followed immediately by a second visit to Belsize Park!

You know you've just locked in a south of the river stay for that don't you?!

Honestly. It'll be a wise player indeed who can find their way back north after that...

Morden.


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 8:36 pm
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I have the solution if anyone is brave enough to go for it.
Emirates greenwich peninsula.

I checked the latest green and purple book and the obvious move is allowed and breaks the south of the river lock, however appendix 6 of the yellow book says another player has to complete the escape.
Just don't do a Boris above the river or we will be stuck for years


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 8:52 pm
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Escaping over ground without being railroaded - Wandle Park


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 9:50 pm
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Dammit. I thought my nidd trap would be sprung there.


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 9:54 pm
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Uh,

Mornington Crescent.


 
Posted : 22/02/2021 10:22 pm
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New game then?

Let's up the ante a little. Diagonals are back in play, Travelcards are valid on weekdays, Jubilee line is wild. Any and all coloured tokens are fair game so long as we're not in Nidd.

I'll open with Earl's Court.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 12:24 am
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Is it too early for Holborn?


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 12:44 am
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Kensington High Street.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 7:27 am
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Barking.

@Cougar will understand the lateral play at work there.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 7:31 am
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Sorry. Hang on. A new game? In the same thread? Whatever happened to rule 17b? If we're going to play like that, we might as well rip up the rule book (all of them) and just make things up as we go along. FFS!

Time to take @Cougar to Roding Valley for that behaviour.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 12:04 pm
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MULTI coloured token to Bow High Road..

Hang on, that’s where I was at the end of the last game!

DOH!


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 12:13 pm
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I am playing from right to left using a travel card wearing corduroy trousers. Had a sly wink from a ticket collector at Elm Park.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 2:32 pm
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Waterloo. I don't give a damn either.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 2:37 pm
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Waterloo. I don’t give a damn either.

Hmm...
Couldn't escape if I wanted to.

😉


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 2:46 pm
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Any and all coloured tokens are fair game so long as we’re not in Nidd.

Sorry, but where does Parson's Green fit in? No one is in Nidd yet but it does need two lateral at once. If the tokens are wild I can open there can't I?


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 3:11 pm
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Richmond Park.

(FENTON!)


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 4:53 pm
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District line rules apply until March, so Parsons Green does not fit in, Earls Court is the closest option in my book, hope this helps...!


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 5:00 pm
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Having never understood the rules of Mornington Crescent ive just viewed the wiki page, now I understand - its just calvinball by another name and anything goes as long as you phrase it with conviction.

as you were...carry on.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 5:16 pm
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" As you were...carry on". I am apoplectic with rage at that statement, defiantly not in the spirit of this game of strategy and magnificence. Flounce to Temple.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 5:32 pm
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I’m opening with a daring move from the Charles Babbage playbook. That’s right fellow contestants.....Gunnersbury.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 6:00 pm
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Amos Grove.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 8:29 pm
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Ah, yes, bit early. Earl's Court isn't a bad shout, just the one lateral and gives me circle line options for later too, thanks


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 8:47 pm
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Pulled a double line choice and waiting at Ealing Broadway. Decision time - red or green line. I suppose it depends on the off peak card colour variable.


 
Posted : 25/02/2021 10:18 pm
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Firmly on peak, Bank. Are we seriously playing Travelcards? I thought due to Covid we'd have at least updated to the fully contactless variation?


 
Posted : 26/02/2021 7:58 am
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Travel cards not Oyster cards, oh heck only one thing for it when the Jubilee Line is wild.
Bring the Welsh edition into play. It still rush hour under the old normal and Friday is a reasonable time to start thinking about the weekend:

Bwythyn Swissaidd


 
Posted : 26/02/2021 8:18 am
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This could get messy with all those Welsh sounds.
Ill go

Llandudno Junction.


 
Posted : 26/02/2021 4:31 pm
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