Fine, while you debate your side show I will go to Walthamstow Queen’s Road. Please note the double tripple (lth-mst) consonants in a word starting and ending with a W, the double vocal and the embedded genitive, all on the first of the month. That doubles my blue tokens (Alderney, 1967) and since it is in Zone 3 direction is reversed.
Worse. Maus, is that 12 tokens you’re holding? I believe the limit has ALWAYS been 10 in this game. It would be a shame if some enterprising player were to take us beyond zone 4 where a Count could be officially called is all I’m saying….
I thought Ms Pryce died. Or am I thinking about Muriel Rice
who won the world title in 1956 ?
Wait - are we using the Somerset or Shropshire variants? If the latter, I humbly apologize and will gladly forfeit two tokens.
Playing off Pardel-Lux’ move and keeping within Zone 3 (just in case), I think “Beefy” Bingham’s gambit would put the next move at:
Tooting Broadway
Ha ! I was right - I was very much mistaken !
Anyway.. Preston Road..Walthamstow Queen’s Road.. Tooting
Broadway.. there’s only one place to go, namely …
Wimbledon
Just a simple move here. No need for alarm. I know when I am beaten.
Hickory Road
Within the Mornington Crescent canon are many loose cannons.
Providing oxygen to the legacy of Pryce is retrograde when immurement is a more befitting, even humane approach.
Further, am unsure whether @Biotop is either beaten or alarmed but shoehorning into these proceedings the fictitous representation of Morden Station (as seen in the LWT 1995 adaption of “Hickory Dickory Dock”) indicates they aren’t adverse to carrying a bear up their jumper either… if you get my drift.
Methinks time to spend a red, blue and gold token and reach Whitechapel, which is close enough to the whiff of cordite for my personal well-being.
I am aware it is not the best move at this stage, but I can’t avoid playing Baker Street at least once in every game. Superstition? Romanticism? Don’t know, but as long as it floats my ELO score I can hardly complain.
The false victory earlier allows for unauthorized though verifiably fictitious stations through Vernon’s Updated Rules of Order (2026) retroactive pre-publishing. Pre-order a copy from Amazon UK if you need to confirm.
I thus can and will resurface at:
Canary Wharf
Did we ever decide which rules we’re playing ? (I should
have specified - I did start this game after all.)
If it’s Palmer’s Conclave Rules, then
Mornington Crescent
else I’ll stir things up a bit with
Cheshunt
Good game, sir!
Not so fast. There’s always Chalfont & Latimer
Elephant and Castle is always worth a detour. Cheers!
Palmer was disqualified in 2017 after he was caught stuffing sixteen tokens and a live weasel down his pants during tournament play. As a result, his Conclave rule sub-set was retroactively repealed. Unfortunately, that revoked a number of titles, including Pryce come to think of it. Perhaps that is why she was always so angry. But I digress.
Finchley Road & Frognal
Fair enough. Cheating bastard scumbag.
White City
Arsenal
I confess to being confuzzled at the current state of play.
With strategic intent I have accumulated tokens legitimately and positioned my calls for express purposes. But are these now in baulk? Is Nid still in play, or revoked, or to be simply ignored? If so for what period? Do I have too many tokens? Are they invalid and of no worth? This is confounding.
Get me now to Rectory Road for some serious contemplation.
Right - It’s simple. Your accumulated tokens are fine as long as we remain out of Zone 1 or on the Overground lines[1]. If the previous turn had been not in Zone 2, your tokens would have been in bualk[2]. Nid is still in play for the next four turns or until we move to the Northern Line[3]. They will revoked if the next move is to an Interchange [4] Until we determine whether we are using the Somerset or Shropshire variants, I’m playing it safe by limiting myself to ten tokens. I suggest you do the same.
Charing Cross
This nets me eleven tokens.
Couldn’t have put that more clearly myself. Appreciated.
Goldhawk Road
Emergency engineering work - replacement bus service via Balls Pond Road