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Mrs Trellis would like to contribute to the game but has become somewhat confused and offered us a beer mat she picked up somewhere on the Shankill Road. Wrong city, Mrs Trellis! Oh well, nevermind, welcome to the game!
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| Pierre Dubois | Disappointed that this website doesn't tell me what set of rules we're playing to. Marble Arch is the only one I can think of that will work with all formats. |
| harv | ladbroke grove |
| Digby | Using a straightforward 'Ottoman' same-line move I will go to Snaresbrook |
| Lambkin | Shepherds Bush |
| Ben | Bank via the castle of doom and the causeway of despair. |
| Mystery player | Arnos Vale via Richmond. |
| Digby | Class move Matron! (doffs hat in recognician of superb tactical play) I'll respond by using De Willis's Overground Revision and go to Rotherhithe. |
| Matron | Paddington. |
| Digby | Using Trumpington's Westerly Traversal Technique I will go to Willesden Green |
| Matron | I'm invoking Peer's Stoppage Rules and my move is Holloway Road. |
| GeeGee | Oh no you don't! Bank. |
| Attila The Pun | Woolwich Arsenal ..that should move us on a bit |
| Attilla the Pun | In view of the current recession I shall abandon my principles and go to Leicester Square. |
| GeeGee | I think I shall play Niblett's Gambit and plump for Whitechapel |
| mr trellis | i double back on a bilateral, but the 1972 land slide rule mean i cannot pass go, and have to skip round the circle line to sloane square |
| Mystery player | Victoria |
| GeeGee | Alperton |
| Sigourney Beaver | zzzzz.Angel |
| Hugh Janus | Golders Green is rendered out of play due to Rule 37 coming into effect follwing the outward legstep and reverting to reverse elision rules means that the next move is . . . . . Finchley Central! (At last!) |
| Zena | High Street Kensington |
| GeeGee | Seeing as we're out of Nid now, I'll have Goldhawk Road. And I may be in Spoon but I have a note from me Mum. So there! |
| miss fox | victoria |
| GeeGee | I don't know about anyone else but I don't recall Rule 37 permitting duplicate moves. Even if you are an amnesiac. Old Street. |
| Hugh Janus | Golders Green is rendered out of play due to Rule 37 coming into effect follwing the outward legstep and reverting to reverse elision rules means that the next move is . . . . . Finchley Central! (At last!) |
| GeeGee | The old outward legstep eh? Only to be used by experienced players owing to the risk of invoking Spant's Lateral Embargo. Pimlico. |
| Hugh Janus | Golders Green is rendered out of play due to Rule 37 coming into effect follwing the outward legstep and reverting to reverse elision rules means that the next move is . . . . . Finchley Central! (At last!) |
| Juan Saponatime | A triple spring with outward legstep takes me to Golders Green.......only a few stops from home!! |
| Coco Souness | There was a Lambeth South but Boris Johnson lost it. I shall have to continue my defensive play and go for Stockwell. |
| Juan Saponatime | Why don't they just rename it Lambeth? Is there a "south" as well? Apart from Southwark? Two golden splonders says that this forces a triple rebound !! |
| coco Souness | I don't think that rule applies under this variation, does it?Although I agree it has forced me into wobbling on the diagonals. Looks like I have to go defensive and play Lambeth North. |
| Juan Saponatime | Coco...you are out because you forgot to declare the Big Ben strike before your pass at Westminster. |
| Coco Souness | It's going to be a hung parliament! So I get to take advantage of Leibnitz's hung parliament 3rd variation rule and take a second turn to ensure the game doesn't end with everyone in 'Heseltine' and declare Westminster. |
| Coco Souness | I'd watch out on your left flank if you want to avoid a rather embarrasing slide into nid if you attempt a prime move triangulation. It happened to my grandfather in the 1983 Mornington Crescent (Scotland Region) grand final. I shall say Farringdon via standard metropolitan rules. |
| Juan Saponatime | The perambulator shove has taken me to Theydon Bois. How good is that? |
| Juan Saponatime | Bank.....That will be £5 please. |
| Coco Souness | I think I shall block you with the slide rule to Aldgate East. |
| Llandyfnod | Whitechapel |
| Coco Souness | Are you a banker? In which case I will tax you at 100% and now you owe me a fiver. I'll take a little trundle on the DLR and say Blackwall. |
| Juan Saponatime | Bank.....That will be £5 please. |
| Coco Souness | Kennington (Bank Branch) |
| Oxford Circus | |
| The Colour Bars | I think we will have some testcard special action and decamp to White City |
| Coco Souness | I don't know about that GeeGee; under these rules your sailing fairly close to ending up in Nid!Mind you, I think you could be playing a tactical hand to force me into a shunt on a diagonal and ruin my triangulation strategy. I'll take us south of the river to Surrey Quays. |
| GeeGee | Wild? It's practically the third world. West Hamsptead |
| Coco Souness | I think I shall play Harrow & Wealdstone under Stovolds 3rd variation. Especially as it gets double points with it being a national rail station and it is wild. |
| maltese cross | That'll put you in Nip - especially in this weather. If Samantha would permit - Pinner! |
| GeeGee | Boston Manor? You don't want to be hanging around there. Perivale |
| CocoSouness | I will take advantage of Monetcute's second station ruling and progress the game to Boston Manor. |
| GeeGee | If we're still in spoon I'll have Kilburn |
| Bethany | I have never seen Wood Green mentioned, and yet it has potential as a move |
| maltese cross | ...no, I think you misheard. I said we need a banker. Which reminds me - through Green Park... and... Barons Court. Fair and square. |
| Ossification | No, no no no not Balham, not with these rules, sorry, can I take that back? I meant to say High Barnet! |
| Ossification | Balham |
| Juan Saponatime | Is there anyone else on this train to Bank? |
| Juan Saponatime | Bank.....That will be £5 please. |
| Juan Saponatime | £5 wasn't enough. I should have asked for £50 at Moorgate,mate! |
| Juan Saponatime | Bank.....That will be £5 please. |
| Gee Gee | Dollis Hill I think |
| Mad Dave CM | Tricky one this ... Aaah...Lambeth North |
| Wonko | Tooting Broadway... hang on, am I allowed a lateral shift? It might need adjudication. |
| jocko | Traverse to Hatton Cross. Allowed by retroactive application of the Greyfriars' Gambit (Nodd's 2nd variation). |
| SX man | Uhhh... Epping's tempting, but I've never epped all the way before. So Theydon Bois will have to do. |
| duck tracy | I was up the Prince Regent the other day - he din't like it though!!! BOOM, BOOM!! Hainault via Newbury Park |
| GeeGee | Baker St. If anyone's up for a pint, I'll be in the Prince Regent |
| maltese cross | I think Jocko's shortly going to be in Nip - because I'm asking Humph to invoke the Hapsburg Connection. Grimaldi's Protocol therefore takes precedence. Fairlop! |
| jocko | Traverse to Hatton Cross. Allowed by retroactive application of the Greyfriars' Gambit (Nodd's 2nd variation). |
| maltese cross | Ahh - I see what you're doing. So I'll see your Finchley and raise your momentum. Turnham Green? No - it's absolutely Barking... |
| the one and only | theres only one move i can do a double down on the bakerloo line (totally leagal because of the previous cornet pactice at tooting broad way) so i slide on the diagonal to finchley road |
| Chorley's Aunt | No, he most definitely wouldn't! He has cornet practice right across the board (including diagonals) - so it'll be Tooting Broadway. |
| maltese cross | If Samantha would permit... oh, well, maybe Chorleywood then. |
| Stevey | Lateral shift to Victoria, a similar move to that used by Stovold in the 1989 champtionship final. |
| jocko | Traverse to Hatton Cross. Allowed by retroactive application of the Greyfriars' Gambit (Nodd's 2nd variation). |
| The Amazing Rando | Kings Cross. yes he is, no doubt about it. |
| Tooslo Byarf | Goodge Street or bust.Samantha's bust, that is. |
| jocko | Traverse to Hatton Cross. Allowed by retroactive application of the Greyfriars' Gambit (Nodd's 2nd variation). |
| Marcus | Hmm. I'll have to take the lateral route to Ealing Broadway. |
| jocko | Traverse to Hatton Cross. Allowed by retroactive application of the Greyfriars' Gambit (Nodd's 2nd variation). |
| me | Moor Park. Simple yet effective I think you'll find. |
| Walter Lieu | Interesting Move, how about a circular route - Oval. |
| Richard Mond | An end-of-leap-year swazzle inflection: Theydon Bois |
| Mong | Putney Bridge. Via East Putney, using the 1931 Canoe amendment. |
| me | Ah-ha! Bank (and I know there's no interchange thank you ). |
| Cardboard Cockney | My preferred move if we were using pre-September 1994 rules would be Ongar - in which case I feel a strong position can be developed using twin divergence on Southbound. I presume this would be decreed invalid by the ruling committee on this occasion and will therefore play safe using a Ulysee's switch. My move is Chalfont & Latimer. |
| me | Knaresborough was ditched but only in favour of the Solaglass convention. So he's not in NID. He is in Spoon mind. Moor Park. |
| Attila the Pun | A swift diversion to Bank. We ditched Lord Knaresboroouhs rules in 1976 (at least at County level) - you're still in NID though... |
| Duck tracy | Bloody Hell!! I've found myself in NID!! Miss three goes. We should get rid of Lord Knaresborough's rules!!! |
| MornC Master | Finchley Central for a de la rue run at mornington crescent next go |
| duck tracy | I can block you using the traditional en passe! Hainault via Newbury Park! HA! HA! |
| MornC master | cockfosters eh? that might have cost you the game buddy i can get to mornington crescent the turn after this if i play my cards right.i move to Mordern |
| El D | Mmm, thinks.Cunning plan required.Hounslow Central. |
| MornC master | damn thats messed me up now, i have no choicei have to straddle to Chalfont and latimer on the lateral |
| El D | Aaargh! Not the Dollis Hill loop! Only one way to deal with this. Take a long run at it and....Stratford.There! |
| MornC master | I place a green token on camden town and move to dollis hill invoking the dollis hill loop |
| El D | Kenton??Ah, Bermondsey! |
| El D | Mmmm, think I see the way this game is going.So – Stratford. |
| Attila the Pun | Good question and well put. Neasden whilst not strictly out of bounds is largely unplayed due to the Caruther's Quango manouvrve - which as you no doubt know went horribly tits up in the 1947 final play offs |
| Snuffles | Tottenham Hale |
| gerald | lewisham (for the Jubilee extension) otherwise it will go to Earls Court Olympia, leading straight to MC the following move |
| Adrian | Or do Oxford rules apply. In which case I suggest that the next player assumes a reverse gruntfuttock's posture. Risky but only way to avoid repeated visits to Dollis Hill and drag this game on interminably.. |
| Adrian | Damn. I should have invoked the Trelawny exception. Too late now, though -- We are well and truly stuck in the fortescue loop unless someone can pull off a Monckton-Twistelton reverse and get us onto the central line. Still Dollis Hill. |
| Adrian | Can't see anyway out of it thanks to PJ's irritating (perhaps brilliant?) move, so it's back to Dollis Hill. Groan. |
| Wisey Woo | If we are conducting ourselves with honour, I believe the only option now is Boston Manor |
| Bacon | Are viaducts wild? If so, Marble Arch. |
| mr trellis | turnpike lane |
| Rabid One | Wood Green |
| The Professor | Kings Cross St Pancras |
| The Professor | Ealing Broadway |
| macrescue | South of the river, invoking rule 27a Kew gardens |
| Prince | Tottenham Court Road - I am new to this |
| The Professor | Euston Road |
| Ryan | Angel |
| Ali | Baker Street |
| Attila the Pun | Heathrow - using the BA variance approach and so narrowly avoiding the extra tax |
| Reinsurance king | Snaresbrook |
| Reinsurance king | Liverpool Street I have never before heard this on the showBut when playing central line variations it is the penultimate move |
| Simetra | Goodge Street |
| E. Harshaw, LL.B., M.D., Sc.D | A fair witness tells me that was an error so I am going back to Grange Hill |
| Leon the Cat | Mile End |
| Mystery player | Blake Hall. Delayed service, was booked to arrive 1958. |
| Simetra | Blackfriars - Mind The Gap |
| Andy Hall | No, but 221b Baker Street will be my next move. |
| nicci | knows anyone the adress of george michael in highgate? |
| Bern | Arnos Grove |
| Simetra | Mudchute...no side slides allowed |
| bishnar | With the current bad weather I can't do Heathrow so I'll have to back-double to Paddington |
| me | willesden junction |
| Rjh27973 | Normally from being in such a tight position I'd be tempted to go all in on the first go and say MC, but in this occasion as the Battersea Dogs Home clause of 1852 may be envoked I might just be able to get away with Hatton Cross |
| palookaville | Old Street |
| Andy Hall | East Finchley |
| Jeeves | Southwark |
| Dan | Warren Street |
| Simetra | Mudchute...no side slides allowed |
| Clapham Common | |
| Simetra | Mudchute...no side slides allowed |
| Andy Hall | Brent Cross |
| Morningtonmaster | According to Clause 3(b) of the Bath Convention Rules (1957) I should be able to make a direct cross to Harrow and Wealdstone at this point. |
| neoofy | bayswater |
| Abba | Waterloo |
| Mr Trellis | There's only one place to go from here..... Either Hyde Park Corner or Bank..... but as we aren't playing the Weakest Link rules, will go to Crystal Palace. |
| Andy Hall | Will have to go Tottenham Court Road, Buslane thereon. |
| _ | This is likly to be my only move of the game:finsbury park |
| Alex | kensington high streetkensal green |
| Cardboard Cockney | My preferred move if we were using pre-September 1994 rules would be Ongar - in which case I feel a strong position can be developed using twin divergence on Southbound. I presume this would be decreed invalid by the ruling committee on this occasion and will therefore play safe using a Ulysee's switch. My move is Chalfont & Latimer. |
| Alex | kensington high streetkensal green |
| Cardboard Cockney | My preferred move if we were using pre-September 1994 rules would be Ongar - in which case I feel a strong position can be developed using twin divergence on Southbound. I presume this would be decreed invalid by the ruling committee on this occasion and will therefore play safe using a Ulysee's switch. My move is Chalfont & Latimer. |
| Cardboard Cockney | I can assure you I only played that move once - either some dastardly man is repeating my move or the PC is kaput.Bethnal Green |
| Cardboard Cockney | My preferred move if we were using pre-September 1994 rules would be Ongar - in which case I feel a strong position can be developed using twin divergence on Southbound. I presume this would be decreed invalid by the ruling committee on this occasion and will therefore play safe using a Ulysee's switch. My move is Chalfont & Latimer. |
| Attila the Pun | Normally you could use a down escalator, but with the lift counter conversion active this would constitute an unviable approach. You could have taken the up escalator but that would obviously have left your laterals dangerously exposed to nidd. Oxford circus |
| THE DOCTOR | I think Cardboard Cockney had just discovered a new loop, or the rules have changed since my day.Clapham Common |
| scuffster | I'm new to this, but couldn't I use a down escalator and go "Temple" from here? |
| Cardboard Cockney | My preferred move if we were using pre-September 1994 rules would be Ongar - in which case I feel a strong position can be developed using twin divergence on Southbound. I presume this would be decreed invalid by the ruling committee on this occasion and will therefore play safe using a Ulysee's switch. My move is Chalfont & Latimer. |
| Andy Hall | I think Chalfont and Latimer is an overused move..so I huff you and go Shepherds Bush, Shepherds Walk and Ewe-ston... 3 Shepherds.... Beat that... |
| Cardboard Cockney | My preferred move if we were using pre-September 1994 rules would be Ongar - in which case I feel a strong position can be developed using twin divergence on Southbound. I presume this would be decreed invalid by the ruling committee on this occasion and will therefore play safe using a Ulysee's switch. My move is Chalfont & Latimer. |
| Hanger Lane Liberation Front | Hanger Lane |
| Cardboard Cockney | Ah, I feel someone something underhand (or should I have underground) is going on. Someone has played my move exactly as my previous. Dashed unsporting. I revoke the second illegal Chalfont & Latimer move as precedented by Fontague-Smyth in the Barking & Dagenham Open of 1976. Using a Bratislava reverse option, I will call terminuses are open and move to Uxbridge. This leaves a potential double route and a plausible attempt on Mornington Crescent provided the next player doesn't digress at Hanger Lane. |
| Cardboard Cockney | My preferred move if we were using pre-September 1994 rules would be Ongar - in which case I feel a strong position can be developed using twin divergence on Southbound. I presume this would be decreed invalid by the ruling committee on this occasion and will therefore play safe using a Ulysee's switch. My move is Chalfont & Latimer. |
| Attila the Pun | I notice that the previous player's name spelt backwards is Molosba - presumably a reference to the Molosba double bluff on the laterals manouvre of '42. I play Whitechapel |
| absolom | white city |
| absolom | northwood |
| Andy | Bethnal Green. |
| Cardboard Cockney | My preferred move if we were using pre-September 1994 rules would be Ongar - in which case I feel a strong position can be developed using twin divergence on Southbound. I presume this would be decreed invalid by the ruling committee on this occasion and will therefore play safe using a Ulysee's switch. My move is Chalfont & Latimer. |
| Andy Hall | Hnag on..just remembered Hall's 3rd Inversion.... better make it.... Behind the waterpipes, 3rd Washroom along, Victoria Station |
| Andy Hall | Leyton |
| silli psy byn | hanger lane for room tea |
| Heraldo | dam, I just noticed the triple Euston gambit has been played, does this still invalidate my move under the Suez rules, or have they finally been officially revoked? |
| Heraldo | Elephant and Castle |
| The Professor | Southwark |
| Neil | I shall invoke the London Bridge act of 1925 and i shall precede to Morn..nah er Bermondsey |
| El Diablo | Turnham Green |
| El Diablo | Bayswater |
| Attila the Pun | Making use of the relaxed clamping rules and avoiding the low level bridge ...Hanger Lane |
| mick | totteridge and whetstone |
| BobM | Kings cross |
| kam | euston sqaure |
| j | parsons green |
| kam | euston sqaure |
| E A Stacton | Archway. I know this is a move usually only allowed if one is Welsh, but I am claiming this under the Rule of Low Level trajectories. |
| Hamish and Dougal | Dollis Hill! |
| mr trellis | kings cross |
| kam | euston sqaure |
| Humph | ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz... er what Southfields? |
| Attila the Pun | Southfields?? Even allowing for a surprise lateral and application of the sponge ..that would be well off limits.. Adjudication please Humph.. |
| Lorry M Organ | Southfields |
| Attila the Pun | Hypotenuse ?? Damn and blast it - I meant cosine - Ah well it's Hammersmith for me then... |
| E A Stacton | Ealing Broadway. Using a hypotenuse after a counter to Nesbits Gambit nullifies the move. Please pay attention! |
| Attila the Pun | Hmmm - swift application of Euclidan geometry on the hypotenuse of the circle line leads us to -Marble arch |
| fuscus | Ealing Broadway. |
| E A Stacton | Archway-(Nesbits Gambit) |
| Chris P. Bacon | Wembley Park |
| E A Stacton | Whitechapel |
| James | aldgate east |
| Hamish | Is that not a northern approach?Errr.... Canada Water |
| Dizzy Wizzy | I think i will invoke the Tottenham convention of '78 and play Hyde Park Corner |
| Mac | Caledonian Road |
| roadking | east ham |
| roadking | watford |
| Attilla the Pun | Well that and the contra flow stymied my end gambit. It will have to be...Ruislip..oh no no I withdraw..Ruislip Manor I meant |
| Alf Frome | Old Street dammit |
| Attila the Pun | Leaving me with an obvious Trellis conversion....Euston |
| Dizzley | Thanks for clearing that up. I believe that lets me out of spoon - after 2 years! Straight to Moorgate then. |
| Grammath | then I'll have to slide down the hypoteneuse to Elephant and Castle |
| Meaks | I'm opening the triangle and playing Theydon Bois |
| Alex | balham |
| green donkus | Northbound and upward to DOWN STREET! |
| david | finsbury park |
| hehe | Sadly this give me the perfect chance to invoke the Dollis Hills loop, which is too tempting to avoid. |
| Old Nol | Controversial choice this one - Baker Street |
| Dr Jeckyl | Using the all change at major stations rule....Hyde Park Corner |
| user2 | Green Park |
| Damnathan | That was a vertical approach, was it not? Holland Park. |
| John | You've left me with an easy Bayswater |
| back to Embankment, I'm afraid. | |
| poons | doublie gimble you say?that allows me a free move through oxford circus without nip penalty and I sayElephant and Castle |
| Simetra | Bounds Green - a gimble reversal |
| mr. trellis | Bond Street |
| Carmen Miranda | Arnos Grove |
| Fontleberg | I'm going to have to open up the board using the War Provision Rationing Rules of 1942, and head straight to Belsize Park! |
| Simetra | Bounds Green - a gimble reversal |
| Piccadilly Pete | taking a wrongun to Ealing Broadway |
| Jossman | Cutty Sark and avast heaving |
| Mike Sankey | Just a quick shifting to Swiss Cottage |
| Attila the Pun | Daylight Saving hours adjustment allows me to go ..Sloane Square |
| sydneyparade | Cockfosters - a sly huff. |
| Simetra | Bounds Green - a gimble reversal |
| attila the pun | ..which allows us entry to the SEVEN SISTERS |
| swanny | Canning Town (ecclesiastical back double) |
| Phil | HOLBORN - got quite a few of you cornered there if using the Welsh Sunday '97 amendment |
| attila the pun | Interesting and cleverly approached on the diagonal thus blocking all the obvious moves leaving me with a risky ... Shadwell |
| TFL | I'll open the field up a bit as we seem stuck on stations within the circle line by going for Fulham Broadway. I hope that helps. |
| attila the pun | Well, I'll have to grab your arsenal by the laterals .... and say Kings Cross |
| Tart | That leads me quite unexpectedly onto Camden Town. Painfully, excruiciatingly close to our nemesis. |
| Helen | But Roz, aren't you in spoon? EMBANKMENT |
| roz | Which means that I get stuch in the convention halls loop and end up at EARLS COURT |
| moel_hebog | Which spells Krapy Rub Snif in reverse, leading us to Monkeys Align Point - or KENSINGTON OLYMPIA |
| mbfos | I invoke a reverse triangulation(with pike) and say Finsbury Park |
| Fopp | Having grabbed the Chalfonts firmly, it has cleared the way for a quick return to Mudchute |
| billboard pete | You are joking aren't you. With ot without the escalator rule Barbican is one of the worst moves that can be made! Hainault Crossing Manouvre, as used in the World Championship of 58, should have led you to be wary. However, you seem to have got away with it as some fool put Putney Bridge, so obviously I am going for Chalfont and Latimr. |
| smithers | And unless anyone has involked the up escalator rule without saying so, I get another go, so Barbican |
| The Doctor | High Barnet |
| Mogg | London Bridge |
| George W. Bush | Tooting Bec |
| Perkin Warbeck | WHAT?? BANK? You can't do that if the vending machine is out of order, thus forcing you to invoke Mother Anna of Widdecombe's Seconde Rule of Thumbe and exclude all play on left facing diagonals. On the other hand, Arnos Grove was good play. Erm....where shall I go from there....Marylebone... |
| oriental connection | no no no sorry Bank |
| oriental connection | Arnos grove |
| Alfie THOMAS | Queens Park |
| Perkin Warbeck | Dear Mrs Trellis, I hate to throw a spanner into the teacup but I've just noticed that the Mystery Player failed to realise that old Stovold's Nip Variation quite explicitly makes no exception for the Circle Line and hence the move to Tooting Bec is in direct violation of Broke-Tailleur's Second Proclaimation of 1935, whereby conversions to the Circle Line were not permitted when crossing from an escalator restricted zone. I hope you can see where I'm coming from. If not, try looking the other way. Yours sincerely, Perkin Warbeck (aka Warkin Wardrobe) |
| Perkin Warbeck | My golly gosh, I haven't seen that attempted since Alexander the Great defied logic by crossing the Seventh Parallel at Charing Cross directly to Vauxhall! Erm...the only option from there has to be St Pancras |
| Mystery player | Tooting Bec (avoidin the problems presented by approaching the Cirlce Line in Nip) |
| Jem8472 | humm good move,I invoke the short left slide and go to russell square |
| smithers | And unless anyone has involked the up escalator rule without saying so, I get another go, so Barbican |
| smithers | Marble Arch |
| Jem8472 | WOW thats a daring move. I think I need the cross line movment ruling, so I can go to shoreditch |
| THX` | umm... hainault. *phew* |
| Nelson | As I've just had some Lucozade the only move really is Maida Vale. Damnit, I should have thought about that in advance.*it was, of course, plain Lucozade, as no doubt you will have realised. |
| Nelson | I forgot to say I invoked the Double Entendre Rule, hence allowing us to return to Maida Vale. The next move must be South though, unless anyone invokes that other rule, the name escapes me... |
| Nelson | As I've just had some Lucozade the only move really is Maida Vale. Damnit, I should have thought about that in advance.*it was, of course, plain Lucozade, as no doubt you will have realised. |
| ME | Kew GArdens |
| Alien Cop In Disguise | A move to Bromley by Bow should make me a row |
| Daisy | Arnos Grove followed by Cockfosters |
| WackyMCRacer | Hyde Park Corner |
| Pope John Paul | St Pauls....quickly! |
| fishbourne | I'm so very Poplar |
| SubZero | Using the Parkinson perojative as my guide...Chalk Farm |
| Bernard | Possibly lands me in Nid - failing that, Totteridge and Whetstone. |
| clarence mousepartner | Parsons Green (or Red if you are colour blind) |
| HQ | An emergency call from the control room at Broadway. All back to St Jamess Park for biscuits. |
| Television's Richard Bacon | Maida Vale (Watneys's) |
| Mungo A Tramwicket | Turnham Green - they'll thank you for it |
| Treated Scouser | Thanks! Returning the favour by SE intercity diagonal to White City... |
| Welsh Rarebitt | like my monument - al move? |
| Harold (Gladys) Clutterbucket | Hanger Lane |
| Gregory Topov | Bank. Note that a red departure token must be surrendered to the player on your right, and the transport card must be exchanged with one at the top of the pile. |
| Stanley | Livingstone crosses the floor, I presume- Kensal Green |
| Timbo Trumpkins | For my first and probably only move, i jump to Kentish Town invoking all the trumpets and bookmarks. Bookmarks are in play, trumpets will be moved sideways. Potentially suicidal i know, but should liven things up a little. |
| Please go home! | A pint of cockfosters please |
| sarks | of course aldgate means I shall have to purchase a new one - ah wella wella said the girl with fair hair |
| sarks | Aldgate I should reckon. Playing the political route today I think |
| buster | Bank what |
| peter mayer | bank |
| Woolster Mistencroft | I'm going to slide up to Mile End, thus enabling a fourth lane grift across to All Saints if the mood takes me. |
| Harold Trousers | If I'm not much mistaken, a move to Notting Hill Gate allows me the opportunity to double-last-gasp onto the Piccadilly Line if a later occasion demands it |
| Tony Blair | Hampstead Garden Suburb |
| Projoy | Something in the region of Dagenham East. |
| gandalf | I am the guardian of the sacred fire - you shall not pass... (sorry, forgot meself for a moment there) err.. Ealing Common (who needs diagonals, anyway!!) |
| big papa j | pimlico (using Petrivnik's diagonal variation) |
| Nobby | Elephant and Castle - by way of Tooting Sodbury |
| Metro96 | Assuming diagonals are alowed...... Euston |
| Hans Nesson-Bumpsadayzee | I can't believe this board has been reduced to trans-loop oval ties already. To try and raise the standard of play a litle, Tottenham Court Road. |
| I have not been allocated a name! | Let's restore nomality . . Holborn, Please! |
| Happy Tuba | Grumpy Saxophone( are you of the Sopranos?), that's a very onanistic set of moves that can only lead to a sticky and dead end. I invoke the little rembered Trellis double-back strategy, sometimes known as the beast with two backs because it is devilishly difficult to reverse, which Mrs T. claims to have invented in the early 'Fourties whilst sheltering from the blitz in Sloane Square known at the time by the nickname of 'The Tunnel of Love!' The only known antidote is a gambit played by members of an esoteric cabal called Highgate and Woolitch. |
| Grumpy Saxophone | Upton Park to Mornington Crescent! |
| Grumpy Saxophone | Harrow and Wealdstone to Heathrow Terminals 1 is a parallel under the Chalk Farm '92 convention. Upton Park. |
| Grumpy Saxophone | No... thats a vertical move... isn't it? Heathrow Terminals 1. |
| Grumpy Saxophone | Rubbish! Harrow and Wealdstone! |
| Grumpy Saxophone | Can you do that? Sounds a little too much like the kilburn convention to me. |
| Grumpy Saxophone | Anybody? No? Well I'll play with my self. Tottenham Court Road |
| Grumpy Saxophone | White City |
| bored stendent | In the post 9/11 world, I feel international conventions such as that concerning the use of the inverted Gamit manoevre are irrlevant. So I declare Warren Street. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. |
| Mick Sing-Bowells | Doesn't Moor Park take us past our quota of Batt's Increments? I think our mystery player is looking to be given a lifetime exclusion from the game (or "Bill Oddied" to use the original term) |
| Evan Jellicle | (To Viv Aceous) Don't Bank on it., Androgyne. |
| Sparky | Colliers Wood |
| Eva Destruction | Oxford Circus |
| Viv Aceous | Why, Evan Jellicle - I do believe I have you rattled Sir! You and I both know that you were caught fiddling with st johns wood not too long ago!!!!! |
| Evan Jellicle | (To Viv Aceous). You Swiss Cottagers don't fool us, you're always into back down moves, taking it up the Elephant and Castle and all available tunnels! Should be ashamed of yourselves abusing our hospitality and toilets. Go back to Berne in Hell! |
| Dai Caesar the 20th. | Let's not forget the roots of the game as set out in the header. The original line was from Y Drenewydd to Llanllwchaiarn famous for its Shepherds Bush which had to be seen to be believed although much of it was woolly and white. However the line fell into disuse due to pronunciation problems. Still the Llanllwchaiarn Convention remains the classic arcane move known only to native pronunciers. When used as a Circle Line Parallel it is unbeatable. Joining the cabal costs the mere sum of lots of money. Please apply directly to Ivy, Mrs Trellis who will also manipulate your points for a small consideration although size does count for her. |
| Joe Kerr | The Tin miners can't but the colliers wood |
| Ray O'Light | But seriously my move is Stockwell |
| Ray O'Light | The chip shop burned down - all the police found was Blackfriars |
| Dai Trying | Rydw i wedi hoffi'n Bank! Diolch yn fawr. Hwyl. |
| Viv Acious | Fulham - ha - you didn't expect me to know the Swiss Cottage reverse backdown move eh? |
| terry lean | has no-one seen my double bluff? Victoria of course you young reckless fools |
| terry lean | wimbledon - will no-one stop my canny wiles? |
| Alfredo Garcia | Bank (always handy if playing Weakest Link rules Mornington Crescent) |
| Cameron Dennis Road (or Cam-Den for short) | Sorry, I meant Northern LINE - Northern Live is a variety show on Yorkshire TV featuring the famous competition where entrants have to make their ferret bite famous quiz-show hosts. In light of my error, I will penalise myself by withdrawing Swiss Cottage in favour of Vauxhall |
| Cameron Dennis Road (or Cam-Den for short) | If the Northern Live is in Spoon, then surely we have to assume that the Circle line will open up and take on a diagonal of its own? In which case, I can only say Swiss Cottage. |
| Oggy | Does Westminster Bank count as two moves? |
| DK | I think the bellfounders gambit to Whitechapel is in order here. |
| Gordon Bennett | Heathrow Terminal 4, reducing the line velocity by three and causing the passengers onboard to miss their flight, and putting the Northern Line into Spoon. |
| Froggy | (Chairman) I find that the best pint of Cockfosters with a Stagballs Single Malt Chaser, is to be found in the Trunk Bar of the Elephant and Castle. Meet you there at 9 O' the Clock. I'll be wearing a green skin. |
| Chairman | Hugo and Oggy, Please stay within the time-honoured traditions of fair play in this game or dont bank on me removing your moves. Where can one get a drink here anyway? |
| Oggy | (Hugo)Please tell me the point of it all. Wapping. |
| Hugo Rune | [Oggy] Not with play like that, it ain't. Goodge Street. |
| Oggy | Westminster. It seems that I can put any old tripe down here and it goes through. Is there any point AT ALL in this drivel continuing? |
| Juan Saponatime | Do bookies runners meet at Ladbroke Grove? |
| Y | I have got a bit of a listhp. Would you "Rotherhithe" your head in the thand? |
| Inspector Rogers | I am sick to the back teeth of this sort of puerile stuff you get on the net these days,what wil the public at large make of it all, it's enough to Turnham Green |
| albin | Predictably, Elephant & Castle. But am I using the Treacle Gambit? You be the judge. |
| Mark Lederhosen | Todays attempt to muff-dive under the Channel on a eurostar from Waterloo was postponed due to the use of non-regulation mirkins. Another attempt from the Paris side will be attempted on Sunday. |
| Juan Saponatime | Is it a Becontree or an 'ambush? |
| West Ham FC winning promotion next season? | Hammersmith |
| Juan Saponatime | Invoking Ancient Ceramic League Ruling down the Mudchute |
| Juan Saponatime | Mudchute |
| Gerry Rafferty | Baker Street |
| Boy David | Manhood comparisons in public place.....Belsize Park |
| Froggy Moore | Frogs leap onto North Circular ....... Preston Road |
| Dr Seus | Invoking Dai's Convention on Vertical Escalators, Willesden Junction. Thank you. |
| J K Rowling | The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive... The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside number four, dead, killed so we can all escape this madness and eliminate forever these annoying pop-up windows on websites which keep popping out of my computer screen trying to sell me tedious Potter paraphenalia...oh sorry, got carried away - Canary Wharf as long as the escalators are working. |
| Billy Joel | Upton Park Girl |
| Solomon | Temple |
| Oscar Wilde | Queensbury Rules on my opening night of being earnest... |
| Big Ted | What's through the Oval window today? |
| Ineffectual DIY equipment | Amersham |
| the weakest link | Bank! |
| Soreballs | Highgate |
| Soulsinger | Dionne Warwick Avenue |
| Hairdresser | High Barnet.. Beehive and Bouffant |
| Bookseller | Edgware to the dustjacket |
| Froggy's tree house | Morden |
| Cunning Loiterer | She told me she shaved but when I got there I found it was all Bull and Bush. |
| Darth Vade Mecum | Oxbridge academic climber. Hillingdon. |
| anti-nazi league | Nick Griffin's dream? White City. |
| Lingua Franca | Down Street, joined to Cunnilingus Lane. |
| Met Drug Squad | We've finnally caught up with the drug lords...Barons Court |
| Tony Blair | In my determination to get rid of the militant tendency especially in Liverpool, I've made Hatton Cross! |
| Soccer fan Ivor Rattle (Simon's Bro) | Surely our totemic English Captain isn't stuffing the white stuff up his hooter. Surely not a Tooting Bec?: |
| stanley knife | Need a bit of an edge? Try the services of Totteridge & Whetstone |
| penurious salome | maida vale |
| Welsh glacier | Maida Vale |
| Granners | Tufnell Park, a playground for a drinking, smkoking England cricketer who says 'honest guv, I'm not Brahms and Liszt or Al Caponed.' |
| C.S. Forrester | Becontree....a trunk call? |
| Superyob | Upney and a sick sensation for me victim. |
| friends of the earth | Turnham Green |
| net user | Lepidopterist...Pinner |
| Rampant Vicar | Hornchurch |
| Froggy Moore | The full Monty, Arsenal |
| septimus shagnasty | I hear that paedophiles are grassing each other up....'Theydon Bois' |
| Sari Patel | Unlock your Bombay dreams with my East India Quay |
| user Stanley Knife | What is the world coming to, even eels are mating younger at Elverson Road! |
| Ken | Barbican, if you ask her nicely. |
| Pedicure support for jelly baby | Marble Arch |
| Out of the Closet | Walter - sorry, Waterloo |
| Priest's hole in one | Parsons Green |
| Froggy Moore | Stanmore |
| Whisky Galore | Cutty Sark |
| Heavyweight bad actor | Lewisham |
| Goliath again | Mile End |
| Royal temper tantrum | Kings Cross |
| Guy Ropes' erections | North Greenwich |
| Chairman scandal | Lancaster Gate |
| Carnival scandal | Notting Hill Gate |
| Othello scandal | Moorgate |
| Gay cleric's scandal | Cockfosters @ Bishopsgate |
| Goliath's little Goliath | Wapping |
| Chinese twin sisters-Wood shee & Woodn't shee | Chorleywood |
| jesus | New balls please Southfields |
| George Michael | Swiss Cottage |
| Newtown Police | CRIME ALERT! We have reports of two Seven Sisters of Mercy CDs stolen - all operatives, keep a sharp one out! |
| Sherlock Holmes | 221b Baker Street and don't spare the horses |
| Stanley Knife | Balham gateway to the south (passim) |
| Tony Blair | House of Lords...bugger, forget that |
| Froggy Moore | Can I jump over Paddington Bear please |
| Welsh dyke | Shepherds Bush |
| Any german goal-keeper | Southgate |
| Tony Blair | Weapons of Mass Deptford Bridge |
| Gordon Brown | I have discussed the five tests for convergence today with the Bank of England before we had a jolly good game of M.C. |
| Ron Davies | Clapham Common |
| K. Merkin | A pint of Cockfosters please |
| Dai Caeser | I dont wish to blow my own Hornchurch but isnt that against welsh sunday rules |
| Chairman | No vertical moves down the horizontal to Fairlop allowed in the game please players |