I’ll use on my first substitution, surrender a yellow token instead and go for the block at Stockwell. The Prison Proxmity Clause is now lifted.
After giving my token to septimus, I will also pay a yellow to cross the Dollis Brook Viaduct enter the Mill Hill East Station and take my chances on a random transport roll. Baby needs a new pair of shoes, so come on Lady L!
Not having any pink tokens, I will mortgage Old Kent Road and discard three purple tokens for a ruff. Costly, but worth it for making septimus go whistle (the debt will be cancelled altogether if - at any point - there are three consecutive plays on the Circle line).
That said, I am currently stymied from Circle line stations due to a ticket barrier jam, so I will have to play Chalfont and Latimer and hope for the best. I hardly need add that Whigs are now fully operational on the Bakerloo line, since that move completes a hex.
Well, Dead Cat, I’m impressed. The way you completed the hex is just… and I don’t use that word lightly, just masterful. Nobody saw that coming. The hex completion is flawless…
Unless…
Unless some awful, awful player broke your hex by claiming excessive occupancy and moving from East **Finchley **to Perivale in one cheeky rehashing of the Shrubland Turn from the semi-finals of the 1967 Asian Tournament. As I just did! Ha!
I am duly chagrined by my beginner’s blunder, attempting the Varangian Defense while the West Ruislip Branch was open. However recovery may be possible. All my colored tokens add up to just enough to buy my way out of Nib. I’ll retighten the martingale and gallop all the way to Blackhorse Lane.
Blackhorse Lane? Who da, what da hey?
He’s done gone and plonked his niblick on tram! He’s out in the weeds, and forpulted.
Only one can play that game, and it’s not me.
Bethnal Green (Central Line)
Harumph. Bank, for 20 nuggets (claiming the student discount).
And for the win, Mor… Morden Road? How in hell did I end up out here? Did someone lift the Prison Proximity Clause? Jeez, I’m never going to live this down. Stop laughing and play damn it!
That only leaves thirteen for me. Arrgh. This is murder. Of course. Thirteen at Dinner. The Mystery Guild footnote ruling of 1933 sends me to Edgware.
And I started out so well. 
Wait. I think Darkon forgot to mention if we’re using Quintessential or Roger’s Classic Rules for the extra events. I need to know, because in the first case. I’m moving to Leytonstone, but in the second, I’m obviously skipping the next two turns.
I’m fairly sure that neither of those apply anymore as a result of Brexit, and as such we’ve reverted to Lord Throncote’s Amendment as regards play taking place when a member of the royal family is with child.
Therefore, I play Tooting Bec, renounce my claim to an extra go if seven or more players are in Nidd, and agree to a light spanking.
Darkon’s dastardly Morden Road put me back in Nib, so I’ll just be kibitzing for a few moves. Beware though: My tattered copy of Recreations for Inmates is hard-to-read in places, but the rules on triple Nibbing are very clear: If (when!) I’m sent to Nib a third time I will collect five purple tokens and own the entire Jubilee line.
But I’m not fully sure this game is in conformance with Bethlem rules. For one thing, I can’t recall anyone ever going to Morden Road with stirrups reversed before without ordering ‘Flying Bacon.’ I’d still be in Nib, but at least I might be getting something to Nib-ble on! (Is that why at the Hospital we always called it ‘Nib’ instead of ‘Nidd’?)
There’s a scanned bootleg copy of O’Melaghlin’s Mornington Midgame Marvels and Mania for sale on the dark web that I’ve had my eye on for some time. The cost is ⅔ of a Honeycoin and 2½ grams of 80%-pure white powder. Perusing that book may be my last best chance to gain insight into this game, but I won’t complete the purchase if players would consider that to be unethical outside assistance.
ETA: Whether in Nidd or Nib, I’m happy for the light spanking as long as you send Mollie around to administer it!
So many experienced heads cashing in their chips and with Bank already on the baize, convention demands the Silver Street stratagem.
Ummm, the first rule of Mornington Crescent is… don’t discuss the rules of Mornington Crescent.
Which I think gives me license to suggest Tottenham Court Road.
You can’t. It’s Wednesday.
Well. it’s five o’clock somewhere. Also, isn’t “Nidd” spelled “knip”, not “Nib”?
Regardless, I will carry on to Notting Hill Gate, queening my porn.
Stuck here in the Knip (or whatever it’s spelled) I’ve been perusing some radio blitz games. They’re played with only a subset of the full rules and may not contain any tricks you old hands don’t already know. But any Dopers kibitzing and thinking to get their feet wet might learn something from them and get the confidence to join:
Lord Nesbro’s Yorkshire variation. This game demonstrates a snicket, albeit an unsuccessful one.
MC played with GPS
(Original Modern Rules) Another failed snicket, this time at Little Portland:
Beginner’s Luck:
Croissant
I see you’ve been studying the events of the 1957 European Cup, you saucy duck you.
Fortunately, this gambit allows me to cash in fivepence of Maundy Money (as per the annotations to the Queen’s 1973 Christmas message) and order an express train to Mudchute, with a stopover at Emirates Greenwich Peninsula to pay my respects.
Hell, well that’s torn it.
With a blatant duplicate being played the whole board goes into baulk.
That just introduces unnecessary complications in a game of such high powered intrigue that’s scaring the horses and newbies alike.
Some traditional manoeuvre is probably what is required here, and just for giggles I’ll activate the Vegan Limitation Clause which prevents any station with Green in it’s names being played for 3 turns and farnarkle my warble over to Barbican from where I can watch the unfolding carnage in safety.
I read this purely as a kibbitzer’s comment. I came very close to reprimanding Mr. Ludovic for his bolding the name of an unvisited station, but wanted to keep the game congenial. (Certainly I didn’t want a repeat of the utter mayhem that resulted at the 1986 Vienna Invitational when Sir Arthur Snitterton-Pottendorf accused a spectator of blowing cigar smoke in his face. What was the final casualty count in that incident?)
As the game continued, more and more the game made less and less sense. I know Bethelehem Rules aren’t standard here so just attributed it all to my own ignorance. I should finally have said something when Dead Cat connected 20 nuggets at Bank, but was too bashful to rock the boat.
And now the mystery is solved! penultima thule, and presumably several others, treated the #20 mention of Mudchute as an actual play. Lesser players might just abandon this fiasco now, but the Opening was unsually exciting and I think we can restore order.
By my reckoning, the move in #24 to “Sadbury” Town was the last legal move, so let’s back up to there. Note that Dead Cat’s invalidation of the unbolded Sadbury is thereby itself invalidated.
Everyone should get their pink tokens back, but since I spent them all getting out of Knidpfd you’ll have to collect them from the Knidpfd-queepker. I’ll return $50 of the $200 I collected in #30 passing Go; I’m afraid I already spent the rest on white powder.
Cardigan gets his red and yellow tokens back. Biotop’s yellow token? I’m afraid you’ll have to ask baby to return her new pair of shoes.
If we can persuade Dead Cat to return her 20 nuggets for three purple tokens, we should be back in business, or nearly so. Smapti and I must return our light spankings to Mollie. Mollie willing of course; let’s not turn this into another #MeToo thread.
Is this all OK with everyone?
Charing Cross. Stirrups are still reversed obviously.