Sorry to steal thunder. I wasn't sure if my move on Boardman's Combined was legal or not, but my research didn't dissuade me from trying. I was as surprised as any that it wasn't auto-rejected. Sometimes perhaps we become too wrapped up in minutia of regulations and tiny alterations and house-rules that the obvious becomes obfuscated. So here is a simple game of Mornington Crescent. Everything starts open except where contradictions prevent, and local time is 2:57pm.
Simons Mith - Raak is edging ahead here.
Barbican, closing gates. That should curd him slightly. [Wymo] I say, that wasn't a
Marie Celeste manoeuvre, was it? If so, very clever. I just hope it doesn't spread.
Tuj -
King George V,
boxing Simons Mith with quince jelly.
Kim -
Hammersmith, picking up a purple podume.
Inkspot - Nothing too strenuous just yet
Sloane Square Software - Languishing at
Heathrow Terminals 1,2 & 3 Simons Mith - Wymo's Marie Celeste manouevre is definitely spreading. I'm forced to play
Cutty Sark And where's everybody else gone?
Simons Mith - Ahem, please try to image that my last post contained three correctly-punctuated sentences.
Tuj - Oh, erm, let's see.
New Cross Gate.
Kim -
Farringdon, inverting
snoods Néa -
Finsbury Park, inventing
wheels.
Raak -
Limehouse. LV up 3 points.
Tuj -
Crossharbour & London Arena, LV up another point.
Simons Mith -
Chalk Farm, clogging. That drops LV back quite significantly, I'm afraid.
Software -
Turnham Green dropping back the LV almost off the scale.
Lib -
Euston Square. Longing to adjust the LV, but can't quite reach the knob.
Néa -
Golders Green, and if somebody had done that two moves ago we wouldn't have the LV down at almost nothing.
Tuj -
Bank, putting Simons Mith in
strick.
Underground Ernie -
Finchley Road for negative LV...
That should put the Pigeon amongst the Cats. Simons Mith - [Tuj, UE] Good, about time I got some concerted opposition. But unfortunately I'm forced to play
Dollis Hill. And thanks to the negative LV, that's Dollis Hill,
reversed. I think this might be quite entertaining, if you like gallows humour . . .
Tuj -
Dollis Hill then. Still, two podumes on Kensington (Olympia) at least gets the LV positive.
Inkspot -
Dollis Hill that will learn me for taking too long between moves.
Software - No excuses, just
Dollis Hill.
Tuj - Well played, although I can still play
Ongar to steal the initaive and reverse
spin.
Inkspot - Replying swiftly with
Brompton Road to increase LV to just the Piccadilly Line for three moves.
Simons Mith -
West Hampstead bisecting. LV still negligible. I'm not on the Piccadillly Line.
Kim -
Russell Square, playing my purple podume
nights -
Ealing Broadway, sideways.
Wymo -
Chalk Farm whilst
your back is turned. Yes, you.
Tuj - Panic!
*f*a*r*k*l*e* Simons Mith - And seeing as Nesden-West Hampstead-MC are nicely colinear, and no-one has seen fit to raise LV anywhere it mattered, I can pivot to
Mornington Crescent[all] You really needed to build LV back up as quickly as possible; I was using a low-LV strategy, and it has paid off beautifully for me.
Audience -
*shouts, screams generally goes wild for Simons Mith* Tuj - Fiddle, I feel rather responisble for that, not just for that ridiculous farkle but also the fact my LV play of late has gone up the spout somewhat. Still, well played Mr. Mith.
This is the end of the line. There is no more.