Anyone for a game of Mornington Crescent?

Well, my actual names (rather than Dope handle) both start with second half letters so that is mark one up for Dead Cat.

No, “hazzah” for Hypno-Toad though I’m afraid as I was last on the Victoria line :wink:

Baker Street, eh?

Willesden Junction I think, and that’s a red token for me too. Making progress, but maybe too slow?

I think I see an attempt at The Bakerloo Block here. Let’s see what I can do about that.

Regent’s Park

And I’ll take that red token, too.

By the way, I take it the North London Line is out of bounds, yes? In which case I am not at an interchange.

I’m sure you can all see why it matters so much.

This won’t help you, but:

Temple

I need deadcat back in play to block Maus with his subtle, but not subtle enough, planned closing game.
Henceforth to
Kings Cross

Sweet - game on! Finchley Central, with a lateral jump to the Northern Line.

Okay - new strategy: Play to draw.

Highgate

Oh crap
Fast line to
Stockwell

I really wish you hadn’t done that. Now I’ll have to go to Angel Islington and hope for the best.

I presume you mean the Angel station in Islington. I think that’s a yellow card for you.

Assuming the play is from Angel, then my only course of action is

Euston

for the block and that opens up the Victoria Line.

Ooh, tasty. Victoria. I trust everyone understands the significance of me playing this move on the fifth Thursday of the month.

I do, and I’m thinking I may call you out, sir.

Stockwell

Vauxhall

Get in the cab!

You can’t - well, not now anyway, seeing as it’s Independence Day next week. Odd how an American celebration (particularly one commemorating an anniversary long before the advent of the underground) should affect play in this way, but as Camberley pointed out recently (Advanced Mornington Crescent, OUP 2005), it does make sense when you think that Benjamin Franklin was the first to demonstrate that lightning is in fact a bolt of electricity. The connection (ha!) then becomes obvious.

Anyway, I digress. Paddington, seeing as mainline stations are still wild.

All right. Don’t think I haven’t got my eye on you, though.

Let’s see. Double connections… Wild Mainline stations…

Marylebone

That should put everyone in a pickle.

Euston.

And I could only do that by taking the overground route! Talk about circuitous.

The (predictable) flood of mainline station plays continue with Liverpool Street.

After Maul Magill’s clever play the first of us to blink is going to have to take a token hit at the very least, I believe.

Oh - and as the weekend is almost with us here is a quick reminder of this weekend engineering works. Tube, Overground, Elizabeth line, DLR & Tram status updates - Transport for London

The total closure of the Victoria Line should make things interesting and the Circle line presents some particularly complex opportunities based on latter part of this annoucment:

Circle Line
On Sunday 3 July, no service throughout the entire line.
Saturday 2 July, no service between Edgware Road and Hammersmith. A circular service will operate.

En Garde!

On a related note, I have a choice between two options as to my next move, but today being July 1 makes the decision simple:

Canada Water

Back in the DLR , you don’t know where you are.
Only one way out of here
Mud Chute

Well, since the recent US holiday had paused play, it looks like it’s up to me to get things going again…

South Quay

It looks like we’re setting up for triple stirrups again.