No, people were released out of Nidd when the mainline stations went wild.
Were we playing a pre decimal rule set, adapted for decimal play, the lack of any one in Nidd would cause Maus to back flush his purple token stock from his shunting production line to inventory to allow for proper accounting. Thankfully such madness is avoided with the conventions we use here.
Is your play a variation of Chockwills’ play in '03?
Exactly - I still have a violet token, which I’m sitting on. Were only in double stirrups, and I’m stuck in the Victoria Line Causality Loop. Looks like I have only one move open to me.
Highbury & Islington
Side note: I had a chance to see Chockwill go up against Jackson for a century in '99. That was a match for the record books.
I did not realize this. I’ve been using a base-7 number system the whole time and it went totally unnoticed. If I have to adapt my moves to decimal play then I’ll go with a variation I saw on *Mornington Crescent: Black Ops *and leap over to Finchley Road.
Bricker is eligible now, and I see him training over on another board. You guys had better win this one quick to avoid being made laughing-stocks again.
I see a devious win available, but can’t take it myself as it requires either 3 purple tokens or a gold star. I’m not sure of the rules about kibitzers giving hints to players so will hide my hint in a spoiler box.
Recall how Mrs. Priscilla Bowes-Lytton awed the world with her win in the 1955 Calcutta MC Invitational (held in Bombay). The Emir of Kuwait was so impressed he built her her very own palace and she never appeared in public again. (Yes, Mrs. Bowes-Lytton was in quadruple stirrups at the time, but there’s a way to use her ploy in double stirrups, do you see it?)
Saw it, can’t do it.
You miscounted tokens. I see it, but it requires four violet and one red token.
Green Park
I think I have 4 violet tokens after a cross-border shuffle I instigated on page 2, so I will pick up the last red token with Paddington. Well, it’s been nice playing with you chaps, but I fear the end is nigh - at this point you can only delay the inevitable.
And that gets me off the Victoria Line. Thank-you. I think I can claim that red token.
Marylebone
No, that variation was pretty much discredited in the Hempstead Regionals in ’07. I mean, it’s still legal and all, but really not all that sporting, wouldn’t you agree?
I’m thinking of going with more of a modified Briston Variation.
Anyway, I’m going to change gears, switch zones and turn in my (now useless) rowboat card for two blue tokens and then head to Baker Street.
Certainly looks like the game is soon to be over. If I had blue, black and white tokens, I could play the “school scarf gambit” (and yes it is a legal move since I have a token on the Picadilly Line) and taken the lead. Years ago I could have done it since I have red, white and black tokens.
Ok, since my red tokens are no good and we are in double stirrups, I will play Moorgate.
Well things can get pretty cut throat around here in the early late game, so I did wonder if you were going all in.
Best sidle over to
Kings Cross
Clever - I had overlooked that. In order to get that red token back, I think I must go via Wimbledon - good thing I got there before the tennis tournament starts!
Drat - with Blackfriars closed until later in the year, I’m forced to divert to the circle line at:
Earl’s Court
Here’s your Red token, you bastard.
I have to bow out, due to my wedding this weekend. Bricker can take my seat. (I coulda sworn his suspension didn’t extend to friendlies, which is how we normally play around here.)
By way of departure, Acton Central. If the ruling at the Northern Open 2009 applies here, the tokens get redistributed, making Maus’s payment potentially moot.
Good luck with my seat, Bricker.
A friendly, on the SDMB? Are you kidding?? These are some of the most vicious games I’ve ever played in! Having fought so hard to obtain my red token, I see that your last move has put me in knip. I didn’t think that was possible, but having checked My First Game of Mornington Crescent by M. C. Stokely, I see that I have forgotten how a basic undertow can cause this situation to occur. Seeing as this leaves me stuck on the Metropolitan Line for the next 3 moves, I may as well continue with Amersham.
Chorleywood
Great. I’m stuck in a siding. Help, anyone? Ooh, just remembered that as it was my birthday last week, I can draw a court card… but it’s useless - typical!
Let’s see if I can keep Dead Cat stuck on the Metropolitan line for a few more tures.
Harrow-on-the-Hill
That’s for the red token.
I am relocating to Baker Street. Since it’s a five-line interchange station, this allows:
-a Gold token for clogging up two lines simultaneously;
-to remove ALL stirrups, per the 1968 Cosgrove-Humboldt Conjugation;
-to claim a mandatory “Huzzah!” from all those still stuck on the Picadilly line.
I still can’t play, until 2 separate players whose names start with a letter in the second half of the alphabet make a move.