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Code Breakers' Crescent
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We will play standard rules on a map where the names have been replaced with random english words. (eg. Goodge Street is now Hedge). To make things easy we will use the example map on page 23 of the 1957 MC annual.
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Hmm... Socks on the diagonal
Colander, home at Mangle
So has Mornington Crescent been replaced with Jumper, its all a bit woolly
[Clamp] You must be thinking of the 1967 annual. I'll put a grey podume on Socks and play Spoon.
Moist - home at Thighs and playing two furry whisks.
Amplitude, home at Haemorrhage.
Prolific, home at Start, believe it or not.
Junket, home at Gymkhana
A, home at widdershins
Therefore. No home yet, following A.
Drat, that forces me to play Sycophantic.
Phlegm (main line only)
Hmm. Shunting Robin to Mangle, I'll lead at Contraption, home, of course, at Hedge.
Sporran
A strile to Calculus, opening the way onto the Simply Line. Home at Phelgm (thanks to that Robin/Tuj episode).
(That's Phlegm of course. That's what it does to you.)
I'm in a bit of spot here, I guess I'll limp to Diary. [GL] Curse you and your podume!
[all] Oh dear ... I'm afraid we're all spiralling now. I'll try Laser Display Board and pray for a block.
Well I don't have the LV to avoid the Laser Display Board loop.
Breaking the look with scissors.
Polyester, putting the Police Line in Saboteur
In that case, black token on Saboteur (get out of that) and I'll shuffle along to Asymptotic (from the North, in case you think I'm still developing that spiral). I'm collecting a coefficient upgrade at this point, which we very rarely see in games on these sites, so that means that Circle Line moves are now cubic instead of quadratic, and the diagonals are now parabolics.
Cheesegrater, with a helium sponge on nipple creep.
Borstal, increasing LV on the Police Line and inverting snoods.
Thank you, the inverted snoods mean I can re-enter at Misanthrope, home at Aardvark.
Flange, home at Merkin.
... oh, and leaving my epithet on the train. Again.
Going Boardman's to avoid being spiked on the Piledriver Line, Moist Display Board
Plinth obviously.
Sesquipedalianism, by contrast.
Now you're not even trying. Antler.
Murmur
I'll re-double and shunt JLE to Hedge by playing Sky.
... which might over-complicate the art-house laterals in the Thoroughly Sated Line. OK - simplifying with Scart and declaring *chunkiness* for the next 3 moves.
Aardvark
Settling down, Basilica
Basilica, shunting Clamp to Clamp
Basilica, oh dear.
um... Basilica?
Basilica/Basilica (bibasilification)
And the standard Ossify denial.
consolidating with OK Magazine
*fondle*
[UK] That was clever to *fondle* on top of Chalky's consolidation. - Flange shunting Lib to Grapefruit.
Which leaves me with a clear shot on Constipation
Not if I Explode first.
I'll play two rubbers at Balloons.
Carrot
Cheesegrater raising LV by 2 3/4.
Leg Break, reversing.
Lid off a Daffodil for a dual reverse straddle.
*fondue*
Darn, that forces me into the Laser Display Board loop. Perhaps a Bi-Fur-Cat-Ion will help?
Laser Display Board/Basilica
Laser Display Board/Harmonica
I'm forced to aspirate
In that case I'll have to sub-bifurcate with Laser Display Board/(Asymptotic/Saboteur).
I think I can manage a simple loop breaking sub-bifurcation using section 35 of the Nash convention (Trap/Balloons)/(Cheesgrater/Hedge).
[GL] Neat! Now I can join the right hand side on the Kettle Line - (Moist/Socks)/Lard
... and I'll swing to the left scrotching with this reductification - Splendid/Lard.
LV rating is now at beast.
I'm not in a good place to complete the reunification, so I'll play a simple Stampede/Asymptotic
[all] Simple, yet effective, as it allows a reunification via Mascerate, using a lytotes advance.
That leaves me open to play Rothschild's Reverse and move to Krugerrand doubling LV on the Gold Line
Swerving wide (thanks to excessive LV) to Flashlight Batteries 1, 2, 3 with a blue token on Flashlight Battery 4.
Time for a swift counterattack with Halitosis.
I'll straddle to Compass North, not invoking anything.
Invoking plenty by straddling South Gherkin
Upping the ante with Squeamish
Compass South, Spin! invoked.
Compass West, using Tuj's Spin! to accelerate.
Careful study of the Spin! has allowed me to identify the status of Quark.
And I shall meander aimlessly to Compass Broken.
I will use this opening by slipping into Lard.
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