# Mornington Crescent Olympic/Jubilee Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 20, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844 "2012-07-20T13:00:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/21 "2012-07-22T08:51:47Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > We’re playing Brunswuthers’ rules What! Don’t you know that CHILDREN can see these posts!? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/22 "2012-07-22T15:27:24Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Vauxhall?! Are you even looking at what’s going on in the game?! > **Gunnersbury** > And if that play isn’t obvious to you then maybe you shouldn’t be playing this game. Well, since I’m currently in France, and it’s the right thing to do strategically: **Waterloo**. ---
**Author:** ![Bilbo1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bilbo1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bilbo1967)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/23 "2012-07-22T15:29:49Z")
I know it’s pretty obvious, but I’m going to have to play\*\* Bank\*\* again (\*\*Saint Cad \*\*surely has an easy huff otherwise). ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/24 "2012-07-22T19:41:25Z")
I doubt Saint Cad would fall for Denied Huff Gambit, not after the Spring Series '08 games. I think a quick stroll above ground to\*\* Monument \*\*would open up some stations traditionally closed on Sunday, and provide a little bit of cover in case Wargamers generous token gift has some Trojan qualities to it. Not that I am suspicious. No not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/25 "2012-07-23T13:03:25Z")
(Whistles innocently past **Precambrianmollusc** ) **West Acton**. I would respond to those attacks on me, but then that would do nothing to advance my nefarious plan. Not that there IS said plan. As far as you know. Oh. Stirrups declared. Heheh. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/26 "2012-07-23T13:14:21Z")
**Royal Oak**. I think that’s right. ---
**Author:** ![JMLVT68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@JMLVT68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JMLVT68)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/27 "2012-07-23T17:57:53Z")
Goodness, I haven’t seen a game as willy-nilly as this since the Pretoria friendlies of '08. Still, given that there are still tokens in play, I’m playing a zone-border defensive move and hustling over to **Bromley-by-Bow**. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/28 "2012-07-23T18:21:59Z")
Unfortunately, everyone knows the Pretoria Friendlies were stricken from the record, and the notes burned . I suggest you review your last issue of Northern Line Journal. Your faux pas is my gain. If I play this right, I’ll avoid the District Line Loop. **Temple** with eagles on seven. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/29 "2012-07-23T19:58:35Z")
Just as science appears to be witchcraft to some, a finely layered Miscobeaien Crossrail play could be construed as willy nilly. That said, **Oval** ---
**Author:** ![Bilbo1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bilbo1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bilbo1967)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/30 "2012-07-23T20:59:16Z")
“Finely layered”, ha! Couldn’t have been much more obvious without actually mentioning Whimperley himself. Anyway, enough of your shenanigans, let’s put an end to that with an authoritative, **Baker Street.** ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/31 "2012-07-23T21:03:16Z")
This has got to be some of the worst strategy I’ve ever seen played since Phillip Sidney was given the Cambridge Classic almost by default in 1932. It almost like all y’all Brits WANT the American to beat you. So as I don’t disappoint you, **Barons Court** which now locks the next 3 turns into choosing stations from Zones 4 and 5. Have fun at Heathrow. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/32 "2012-07-23T21:04:18Z")
I see I’m not the only one who doesn’t turn his nose up at the Indian scene. (Ramapriya at Bangalore in '04, right?) I respond with **Watford High Street** , and let’s see you try to get back to the dargons now. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/33 "2012-07-23T22:45:01Z")
Good Lord, I go away for a few days and return to find carnage! I’d forgotten how dirty some of you guys play (and of course I mean that as a compliment). I’m going to run away to **Amersham** , a favourite outpost of mine, and await developments. I will say, however, that those of you squabbling over the tokens may have forgotten the Petrov Principle. No, I won’t quote it here as it may be NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/34 "2012-07-24T04:48:05Z")
Amersham?!?!?!! The soul crushing tedium of that play can only truly be represented by the actual soul crushing tedium embodied in the place of my counter play. Pinner I say to you sir **Pinner** ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/35 "2012-07-24T07:26:15Z")
To which I can only respond **Wimbledon** , and that has to be the first time since 1948 that the _Olympic Torch_ clause has been invoked, subsection 3.1.1 “Dense Crowds”. Clockwise stations are in Nip for three turns and you may not Traverse. All that and the five-point bonus too - that was a generous gift, you archaeozoic lifeform you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/36 "2012-07-24T17:10:58Z")
That was an unexpected play, but there are classic counters in the literature. Stanislav would say Epping is the correct next move, but given modern rush hour retrictions, let’s go with **Theydon Bois** , and I pick up three. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/37 "2012-07-24T17:17:50Z")
I’ve had a letter from a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/38 "2012-07-24T18:35:18Z")
**Dollis Hill**. And with that, as long as we aren’t forced into a Loop, I think we can bid farewell to the early-Early Game and move into the Mid-Early Game. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/39 "2012-07-24T18:52:56Z")
But we are in stirrups, Nip and traverses denied, seams to be a very hardline precriptive view given the Jubilee dictum. In the interim I will be stuck here in Pinner lamenting my impulsive move, I seam to have a blindspot for Brunswuthers 6th. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844/40 "2012-07-24T20:57:43Z")
Drat. My eagles and the stirrups have created an unholy situation. Per the Westminster conference of 1935, I’ve been forced to miss my connection. **Blackfriars** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-olympic-jubilee-edition/628844.md?page=3)