Where’s the fire?
Wow, you don’t often see the Pyromaniacs Gambit played so early.
Burnt Oak
South Harrow
I’m not sure why South Harrow has stumped players. I realize there are some time-of-day interactions, but my understanding is that SDMB games have used Greenwich Mean Time exclusively ever since Dead Cat lulled North Americans into a false sense of security and pulled off that brilliant McGoohan’s Convergence several years ago.
With GMT agreed and yellow tokens accumulating as the clock clicks, I don’t know why players are reluctant to take a small profit and move on the Picadilly line. Are we playing ‘Chicken’? Or ‘Blind Man’s Bluff’?
I’d grab the yellow tokens myself, but I have another gambit in mind. 
Please, somebody, move to the station I’m thinking of!
Why are we stumped, septimus? Well, maybe it’s because for some reason, apparently in this game South Harrow before round six is announced is perfectly allowed. And, unless we’ve all magically traveled back in time to 1975 before the Alexander Duncan addendum, that makes no sense.
So back to Sadbury until somebody calls for a caping fee.
I hate to be one of these pedants who quibbles over every spelling variation but, despite his spiderly name, I do not think Mr. Laser is attempting a move to Sadbury Close in Somerset, nor to Sudbury in Suffolk. He’s making a more pedestrian (and more legal!) move to Sudbury Hill or Sudbury Town on the Picadilly line; and testing to see how many of us still remember the 1951 World Championship when Phineas Throgmorton called “Sadbury Town” sarcastically and forcing the defending champion to forfeit all his purple tokens. (And of course Throgmorton came to rue his sarcasm when he was skewered on the Bakerloo line and forced to call ‘Flying Bacon’ just 4 moves later.)
Anyway, neither Sudbury Hill nor Sudbury/Sadbury Town was the blunder I was hoping for, so I’ll continue to watch passively. I certainly don’t want to be in the hot seat when a grisly caping fee is announced! :eek:
Caping fee be dammed, what’s with the nonchalant menage a trois of Sudbury Town, Sudbury Hill and South Harrow with nary a word of rebuke from the moderator?
What do you guys think you are playing, rending convention with the the Manafort Mandelbrot variation? You must be keenly aware that after the 2016 Reykjavik Resolution this is only possible after a solid session at a sleazy wine bar and if one of the interlocutors is wearing fishnet stockings.
So, by necessity I’ll lodge a rescission motion, and play High Street Kensington to get this game back within prevailing international rules.
Thank you to friend septimus for drawing my attention to this game, and reminding me of happier times. I am sorry to report that while the old saying about the Embankment being populated by those who failed to draw trumps is undoubtedly true, it seems equally the case that those who employ McGoohan’s Convergence are doomed to endure seven years’ bad luck - I have not won a game since that illustrious day - nor have I even played one.
Anyway, once more unto the breach, dear friends - obviously I’ll go to Goodge Street, which renders all previous non-bolded plays invalid, while doubling the score of those with typos (I’ll leave it to others to rule on whether plays with multiple typos score triple, or are turned negative - even the venerable Lord Uffington was rather confused about that matter in the famous Lumley game of 1974).
Happier times indeed! I do remember that 1951 game as it was my first. Though I was naught but an egg in my mum’s left ovary at the time, I recall how I bamboozled Throgmorton into making the egregious error of playing his Rumplestiltskin card to move to Kew Gardens. We all had a good laugh till he, using the Darwin Evolution, ended up on Oxford Circus which knocked me, and several others, out of the game. What a move!
Anyway, back to the game at hand: I’ll thro in a cople of typos (just in case) and move to Euston Square.
Fortunate for me, I was able to appeal to the, ahem, generous nature of the officious looking gentleman at the Emirates Royal Docks and was able to move on. I believe that Mannington Estate Axiom is now enabled since players have reached Euston Square and High Street Kensington which will, of course, get me a straight shot to my destination.
Interestingly enough, I find myself at Amersham.
The ostentatious and flamboyant opening you guys have adopted will intimidate any novices who might be tempted to get their feet wet. Fortunately I am now free to play
** Baker Street** !
This should, hopefully, return the game to a more staid and well-studied line. More importantly, given my present circumstances, I pass Go and collect $200.
Which leaves me no other option than Regent’s Park, unfortunately.
You realize that if you keep playing this aggressively you’re going to be left without non-linear quadrants in no time, don’t you, septimus?
I’ll cash in a single red token and skip ahead to play Picadilly Circus. Sorry to be That Guy, but it should be apparent there will be no quick sudden rush to a surprise victory at this point.
My latest edition was printed well before the Night Tube update and even I could see an easy path, but I can’t play any closer than East Putney due to your invocation of the Prison Proximity clause.
Earl’s Court. Stand clear of the doors.
Given the way participants are so blithely allowing this game to flow down hill I think there is historical and poetic justification for plotting the Bazalgette Rhumb Line and calling Embankment
Yes! A second Harrow. Now I am guaranteed two of the four and thus the powershare in the quad. I will use it on West Harrow and put a shareblock on the other two. I have two chips so expect to pay that to pass unless you have a double Headstone Manor bypass ticket.
One must applaud the brazen Thatcherite Power grab, but let all other players be clear there’s naught pretext or intent of sharing about it. But I’m total confident that the Propinquity Provisions, let alone the Distinguished Old Harrovians on the Monopolies Commission will have you in chokey pretty dam quick if you breach the threshold. Sorry, mate, you are self rogered.
After that, where else could you go but East Finchley.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait… this is an international board, we can’t use the Propinquity Provisions because, in fact, most of the posters here aren’t even Australian.
Propinquity was used in the 1985 Pan-African Championships and the judges allowed it even though no Australians were participating, so precedent would seem to rule in favor. I’d further point out that the original intent behind the Propinquity Provisions was to avoid the controversy that arose at the World Cup in 1930, a sad story I am sure I don’t need to go into here.
I’m taking Archway. The logic of the move is, I think, clear, as this is how Mortenson played out his epic win against Hinch, and I’m sure as hell skipping over Highgate.
Mere mention of Propinquity means we’re now surely playing Equinity. I shall reverse stirrups, loosen the martingale and proceed to Elephant & Castle.
Each of you now owes me one pink token if I understand correctly.