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!
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...
This is intense.
Time to bunker down and use the Ministry defence.
Brompton Road
Dollis Hill.
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
I still have the keys to Down Street (Piccadilly line). I will be waiting with the Cat at Cyprus.
I confirm Cyprus
Playing the 'park shift'.
I play....
Tufnell Park
Park life rules
Hyde park corner
I’m pulling the trifecta card and going Belsize Park.
Kayleigh is it too late to say I’m sorry?
Park life rules
2’s company, 3’s a crowd but when in Rome....
Gorky Park.
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.
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
Escaping over ground without being railroaded - Wandle Park
Dammit. I thought my nidd trap would be sprung there.
Uh,
Mornington Crescent.
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.
Is it too early for Holborn?
Kensington High Street.
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.
MULTI coloured token to Bow High Road..
Hang on, that’s where I was at the end of the last game!
DOH!
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.
Waterloo. I don't give a damn either.
Waterloo. I don’t give a damn either.
Hmm...
Couldn't escape if I wanted to.
😉
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?
Richmond Park.
(FENTON!)
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...!
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.
" 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.
I’m opening with a daring move from the Charles Babbage playbook. That’s right fellow contestants.....Gunnersbury.
Amos Grove.
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
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.
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?
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
This could get messy with all those Welsh sounds.
Ill go
Llandudno Junction.