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[ac] Please advise as to ruleset. Otherwise we'll all be throwing in random stations.
"nu rulset txt gme" ?
I though it might be an emoticon game from the title. ;)
I assumed it was HP2k as usual. If it wasn't I'd like to withdraw my move and suggest a restart. Please
Bank. Pah! You ammateurs. Can't you perform at this level without Mumsie there to hold your hand? This is Mornington Crescent in its purest form, and even a child should be versed enough to manage without a guide book when playing under open conditions. Oh, this is going to be a walkover. *Rubs hands with glee*
That's fightin talk, that is! Alperton and hang the LV.
Shepard's Bush then, and no holds are barred!
Westminster, you devils!
I refuse to be called an ammateur by an amateur who get out of his depth in a letter-by-letter game. Pimlico with a red token on the circle line.
Don't you bring my dyslexicon into this tropic of discoupon, you unprintipled Charlottine!! Fenchurch Street, and see how you like those applets.
LV now a blistering 789.622. This is Ruttsborough, surely? Shall we go .. er ..beyond Ruttsborough? Let's burst through the barriers of convention and freewheel up the fast lane of anarchy! yes yes yes!
Gospel Oak - executing a reverse shunt into Boolbar to send him hurtling into the barrier at Beckton on the DLR *mwahahahahaha-ing*
i am still trying to learn this game, is there any rule that would prevent me from playing Hammersmith. (how do i make things bold)
It's like taking candy from a baby. Euston. Oh, the simplicity.
Fine then Alperton, and i hope you choke
Oh, bless. You're all so cute when you try. Still, even though this is a game for grown ups, I'll ease up on you all a little 'til you find your feet. Trafalgar.
Ha, Bank, Take that!
Ah, yessss. I can see what you were trying to do there. Mayfair.
Snag] Try asking on the banter page, it's much more civilised! Meanwhile, I have to fox Thrax with Barbican.
Your attempts, Korky to fox me by initiating a "Sideways-Counter-Rabbit" manouvre, while not work, as I'm well educated in the principles espoused by the great Masters, such as Heptonstall and Puttbadger. I'm tempted to try and formulate a "Helsinki" Defence, but that would make this laughably easy, so rather I'll opt for Tooting Bec, and pull off a "Pie-Ball Reverse", closing down every Diagonal South of the Thames. Hah!
Oh, and Snaggy, go HERE for infor on how to do bold etc. Great stuff, courtesy of our own Dr Qu+xum
*Rubbing his sore nose* Luckily the DLR only has a weak diagonal coefficient and as such avoids Thrax' Pie-Ball Reverse due to the current high LV. South Quay using Goodwin's Third Rule and I'll pick up those purple podumes that Chalky dropped during her reverse shunt. Ha!
Hmmmm. I like a challenger who comes back for more. I think I'll redress the issue of the Beck's Co-effecient, and double the Snoods at Pall Mall, by playing Bayswater. *Cackles maniacially* I'm so mauve.
Ha Thrax, by failing to take the squirrel coeficient into account you have walked right into my trap Goodge Street and in for the kill
I say, chaps, can anyone play? Or is this turning into a Lockisseum match 'tween Mssrs Snagandorf and Thrax? In any case, I think I shall interject at Knightsbridge.
Verry nice indeed i gues i have no choice but to stalk off to Angel and wallow in my own self pitty
and may i also take this time to declare a full reverse waffle in effect
Most flattered to have you with us, LotUS. It's open season here. Hop in, if you dare.

Hmmm, you're certainly picking it up quickly, Snags. Was I correct in inferring from your earlier statement that you're a beginer, or where you trying to lull us all into a false sense of security? In any event, you show promise, lad/lass. That was a most impressive move, worthy of respect among established, seasoned players all. Indeed, Full Reverse Waffles can be deadly while they're still hot. I'm getting outta the way until this one cools down. Fortunately I'm always prepared for eventuallities like this. And thus, for this move, I shall - mercilessly - **Farkle!!!** Heh heh.
In that case, Thrax, Dollis Hill.
Dollis Hill. You rotter! Well, we're all in the same boat now, folks.
you are correct to assume i am a beginer as this is my first true game(i ahve played many against the java applet) but do not concider me an amature, i have spent three days learning the rules and now that the waffles have cooled for many hours i can play Kenton and double my life total.(although i still am not certan if we each have our own player tokens or if there is one community token that we all move)
Ah! The sagacity of the novice! What sheer luck has allowed him to burst the confines of the Dollis Hill loop so swiftly? Fairlop, and be damned!
Er - what happened to the LV? I only make it 65.13, and even taking into account Thrax's farkle... Humby-ho. Gallion's Reach
Finaly this game has enough upward momentum that i can Farkle! twice in the same turn without throwing us into the dreaded double farkle spiral of doom.
Two farkles? Too much for me! A swift reverse all the way to Ealing Broadway
Camden, and declaring home stations at Picadilly and Victoria.

Snags, for a beginner you show promise, Sir or Madam(which are you?). I'm sure you'll understand that this is why I came out at you so aggressively in the opening phase. My philosophy is always to stamp hard on the new bloods and see how they handle themselves. I do this in the hope that they'll not merely survive, but also thrive under pressure, becoming stronger as a result. Evil Doctor Thrax, as I am known to some, is not entirely without compassion you know. In any event, I'm impressed by how well you handled yourself back there. Respect earned, and given. *doffs hat.*
Since Thrax seems to be playing rather a lot in this game, I have ample opportunity to study the intended style and position before plunging in. In this case, with Lancaster Gate, for maximum inconvenience - nothing personal, but I'm not about to let anybody get too far ahead purely through overactivity ;-)
So, playing hard ball are we, Mr Ellis? Very well, so be it. Moredon, says I, and let that be a lesson to you.
since this game seems to be slowing down one turn should last long enough to play all four Acton's, thats right north south east and west all in one verry long turn. now are you happy JLE?
Indeed, JLE, our friend Thrax is proving to be somewhat hyperactive. Thus, me being an aging fuddy duddy, Old Street collecting a pensioner's card and twenty free senior citizens' podumes on the way. The fact that they are dusty and somewhat fragile makes no difference in the right hands.
Dollis Hill again.
Since everyone is determaned to slow this game down andput me in a nut shell, here is me in a nutshell:
name: Michael Clauser(yes my initials are mc)
gender: Male(i think)
Location: indiana(USA)
Favorit science fiction commedy writer: the late douglas adams(like there was any other choice)
Since the title of thismatch is new game, i believe we must finish this gamewhile it is still new. with that i call forth Team Rules and request thrax as my partner if he will have me
Nice to make your aquaintance, Michael. My real name's Adam, by the way, or Adz to those who know me. Check here for more info on me, under the pseudonym "Anthrax Whirl" - a name I used to call myself back in the halcyon days when myself and others convened for bouts of MC at Mr Wild Pants' Mornington Crescent Server.

I must confess I heartily share your appreciation of the late great DNA, a master of the sci-fi/satire genre. Pleased to learn there are folk Stateside who share a love of his works, and also that of MC.

However, I'm not sure that Team Play is permissible mid-game, my friend. I think that's something that has to be arranged at the start. Moreover, I'm going to be taking a few days' absence from this site, beginning tomorrow, as I have family commitments, I'm afraid. However, I'll be back soon, and would be more than happy to take you on as a wingman or apprentice upon my return, if you fancy.

Anyway, returning to the game, for this move I obviously have no choice but to play Dollis Hill, since Darren has been once again wicked enough to begin another "Dollis Hill Loop". Darren, Sir, you are far more sinister than I originally conjectured. I shall be keeping an eye on you.
Dollis Hill - well, you'll find my style of play has become somewhat sterner since my ticking off in the Lockisseum for trying to win games too early!
Agreed, this game has barely begun, and is just warming up. Dollis Hill.
seeing as how the last several moves have been verry empty, i stomp on the ground three times while swinging a beaver above my head, we all fall into the giant sinkhole and if renaming stations was alowed we would all be at the bottom of Dollis Pit. try to claw your way up the walls if you must, there is no escape.
Dollis Hill but retrograde.
Confounded business this. Dollis Hill.
good move Boolbar and thrax concidering there is now little elsware to go but Dollis hole in the ground and i shall draw three cards.
hey thrax i visited your profile and thanks to google there is one more person who abso-bloody-lutly knows what tmesis is.
Entering with a typical Ongar, and home at Goodge Street.
[Tuj] Thanks. So on to Waterloo (Waterloo & City line only).
Boolbar] Which forces me to play Bank - curses!
Now that Dollis Canyon has been filled in with lemmings i can move to Elephant and Castle and get this game rolling again.
Keeping up the momentum by spooning at Aldwych is suitable, as it leaves the Metropolitan in knid.
If the Metropolitan is in knid, then Tower Hill gets me a beige podume.
On the other hand, St Paul's could have got you a golden podume, which is now mine! All those in knid are now reversed and have to play with their feet. As opposed to playing with their feet, if you get my meaning.
Oy! Watchit! A bloke's having a quiet sleep and you do that ... so, Bank dropping a grey podume and a few grey hairs in the process.
not knowing what a podume is, i will Farkle, and destroy all remaining on the board.
Sorry, Snagandorf, but the grey podume I dropped negates that move (for your information, sir/madam, it effectively drops leaves on the line - I warned you earlier that they are dynamite in the right hands - and allows at least two more moves, either of which could easily side-step your dastardly ploy). Anyhow, just in case, I'll straddle to Monument.
then i shall take diagonal roads all the way to Holland Park where i shall yell at a tree untill it falls over dead.
Ongar for the obvious reasons.
Knightsbridge, making the classic combination.
And the classic antidote, Royal Oak.
it is time for the three cards i picked up earlier. i play Jack of Clubs which is of course trump, Jean-Luke Picard from the star trek card game, and Arcanis the Omnipotent from mtg. with these three men i shall pick up the Royal Oak i knocked down, and use it as a battering ram. look out comi'n through. we end at Liverpool Street, destroying all track to the south.
In that case, I'll open air routes with Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3.
Defence is the better part of attack here, methinks. Shoreditch.
[Dujon] No, a strong offence would make the better defence here - Arsenal, mayhaps.
Ha! Declaring smoog on the first quadrant. Ickenham.
i shall tap Arcanis to draw three cards... Ha!Profesor Plumb in the Ballroom with the Candelstick. Snaresbrook for the warbling defence.
No further defence is valid. Sloane Square. Black-hole tokens on Snaresbrook to demolish Snagandorf.
you have forced me to play the card that was sitting on the table the whole time, Wild Draw two. the color of the hole is now green, i escape narrowly losing all my posessions and my dignity. I shall now sit on the corner with a cup asking for spare change.(down but not quite out, any help would be appreciated).
Embles, Goraj the Mighty! declared and the Quick! Grab His Kneecaps card played.
This seems to have mutated into something other than MC. King's Cross St. Pancras, although illegal, forces a legal MC move to invalidate; thus requiring a return to MC.
Euston and i believe your move was invalad because we are in smoog.(sorry about that i was just in one of those moods)
[Snagandorf] Only if you are in the first quadrant. Will was in the second so the move was valid. Oval - playing power cut on the DLR.
Blackfriars then.
Although the smoog explanation isn't accurate, King's X was specifically invalidated by reason of the implicit one-station block from Uncle Corky's Royal Oak play earlier. It was valid UNTIL the Euston move, as I pointed out.
Well, as that is only valid retrospectively I'll continue with Shaft!, Sandbags At Dawn declared.
Angel and only thrax can stop me now
[Snagandorf] I think you've overlooked something.
Sudbury Hill putting Snagandorf in knid and shunts all tokens on the circle line one stop clockwise.
E gad you'r right, Oxford Circus and the game is running strong.
Amersham, and a silver podume on Westminster to police the southern approaches.
Oxford Circus shunting Snagandorf - one khaki token on High Barnet to army the northern approaches.
Heathrow Terminal 4. Playing Spoon on Darren, and jettisoning him to Blackfriars. Ha! I'm so wicked.
Ha! Parsons Green en passant.
I'm still not convinced that this isn't just another game disguised as MC, particularly as the name suggests originality. Hotpoint, il led rosso declared.
Blackfriars (thanks Thrax). [Tuj] The title, as I see it, simply implies that this game is to MC sites as "New Song" by Howard Jones is to synth pop. Thus, we won't crack up, bend our brains, see both sides, and throw off our mental chains, woo woo woo.
Wow! You have been busy, though by the look of it not very productive. So, Green Park for a breath of fresh stuff.
Darren] Fine... be that way! Neasden.
Temple. Be what way?
Drat it! I see you were already at Blackfriars, Darren. Curses. As always, there's usually one tiny flaw in my evil, machiavellian schemes. Reminds me of the time I attempted to conquer the world by shrinking the planet to the size of an indigestion tablet and swallowing it with a sip of water. I ended up miniaturising the shrinking device and enlarging the glass of water. And worse still, despite gulping down all the liquid after swallowing it, the shrunken shrunking device did indeed give me ingigestion. Oh, cruel irony!

Back to the drawing board I suppose.

Trafalgar, for ten.
Dollis Hill and let the loop begin
Dollis Hill, naturally.
Hmm... Dollis Hill, maybe?
Neasden to break the loop before it threatens to bore us all to death. DH loops are SO last century.
[Chalky] Still using Neasden? You ought to go with the in crowd and try Osterley.
Carrot
[Bob the dog] i think you have the wrong game(but we will accept that move). i watched a moment of golf yesterday so Wimbledon.
I told you this game had undertones! Plank, Little Jimmy denied.
Berkeley Square. Prizing all laterals to 45 degress, and raising LV by 12%. Stand well back if you're squeamish.
Glasgow. You leave me no choice.
Going North - Ultima Thule
Forcing me west to Times Square.
We're playing a little outside the usual local boundaries aren't we? So be it. The Smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds.
Hellas Verona, for obvious reasons.
The silly state of this game, however, allows for Oxford Circus putting all recreational movers into knip.
One Inch to The Left of Will's Position, since we've gravitated back and been "reined in tight" again.
You're a devious devil, Thrax. Hmmm, if you are serious about Will I'd better shadow Harry, Poplar it is.
Hmmmm, you've always proven a worthy adversary, Dujon, and I commend you on a move of some cunning. I hereby declare another *Farkle* to ease the tension. I'd open a window and stand well back for the next few minutes, everybody.
One Kilometre to the Right of Thrax's Position forced...you should really try a new deodorant, Thrax. *joking*
Floor 29 of the Hotel Ukraina, Moscow... playing safe, if unsteady.
Green
Almost (but not quite) Mornington Crescent - Darn!
Jennifer's Underwear Drawer. There you go, Boolbar. Try again.
Una Stubbs, 'Bad Miming' invoked. You can't silence me!
[Chalky] Thanks! Mornington Crescent in a G-string. No that's still not right.
i have3 been away too long so almost, but not quite, compleatly unlike, Mornington Crescent also known as Dollis Hill.
Finally emerging from knip to play a deverstating Dollis Hill
Morni....ah, drat, that won't work...Dollis Hill
Dollis Hill and don't fight the inevitable.
Whew, that little bit of circulation cleared the air - thanks. Now, Boolbar and Thrax were playing dirty so - Mudchute.
Avoiding all of the aforementioned mess by striling gracefully to Barons Court.
[Dujon] Playing dirty! Never. Moving two soap tokens to Canada Water.
Building Society - I'm sorry! I was so close to Bank but I didn't make it!
Surrey declaring *fringe on the top*
Morni... checks board Nope, still won't work. King's Cross St. Pancras
Having been out-alkalined it's Rayners Lane with an implied threat to the Metropolitan.
The Pavement outside Mornington Crescent
The Fourth Estate / Chessington World of Adventures, a wild bifurcation.
[Tuj] Now you've done it. The Bishop of Durham's seat in the House of Lords / Universal Studios, FL - theme parks wild on the second strand.
Big Ben / Dollywood invoking Bong!
The London Eye / Disneyland, Paris straddling La Manche and closing the Channel Tunnel.
Lord's / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Valentin that was nasty!
Pluto/within three miles of ecentrica galumbits and i hope i spelled that right
Hmm...that allows Kochab/Ursa Minor Beta which, being the same place, reunites the strands.
Northampton County Cricket Ground/Alpha Centauri separating them again... Never call me a conformist!
Re-unifying at Karachi. Or was that Venezuela?
[Tuj] Thanks! Now let's try and get back in the right direction. A Map of The London Underground.
Sorry. A Jackson Pollock painting.
Normandy, balls.
Getting close at The Palm Reading Parlour behind Paddington Station
a cup of what may or may not be tea i am a little tipsy.
Clearly that would be Darjeeling / Lipton Ice Tea(TM)
Which proceeds nicely to Earl Grey / TwiningsTM Peppermint.
*Dunk* / Nettle Tea
Birds' Nest Soup, reunifying, for what it's worth.
Sharks Fin soup adding a little bite to the game.
Doubless with a subtle flavour of herb tea the next is for Oxford Circus
IMPOSTER ALERT!
I refer to the post immediately above entered at 1:46 pm Sunday 4th July. 'Twas assuredly not I ... I was well and truly tucked up in bed at that time.
Picking up from Poisoned Pidgeon's last (legitimate) posting, The Tate, for art's sake....
this game seems to have gotten a little too open Dollis Hill and i close the loop
Oh no! Forced to play abstractedly after the sudden closure, a prepostrous Canons Park!?
i will take advantage of the crazy move and play bank stop me before i win!
Elementary. The best way to stop you is Mornington Crescent, claiming the win for myself.
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Will*
What can I say? The imposter, combined with the late Dollis Hill reference, brought my LV to a ridiculous level somewhere above c, thus bringing me in from Kochab to MC.
i meant stop me from winning now so the game can go on, i was worried the game would come to a premature end at my hands, oh well.
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