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Re: Mornington Crescent

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Graham, Paul is an accountant and a very good rower so the rules do and do not apply in that order.

Also as you have correctly stated the rules are very complex and subject to addition at very little notice (as I am doing now).

If you try to give a quick run down, you're only going to confuse people or not.

New game any one ?

Where's Humph when you need him ?

Ah well if the Johnson non integrated transport rules of 2008 apply and why shoudn't they then it has to be :-


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Can we use the omnibus variant this time please?

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webberg wrote:- Can we use the omnibus variant this time please?
Inconceivable but probably-can we please first check that the Omnibus variant is the one from 1945, if it is then it almost certainly invalidates the War Provision Rationing Rules of 1942 and hence it could well be in play ?
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You misunderstand Mr Strider.

The version I was referencing is the post Boris Omnibus that does not bend in the middle and as a consequence reversing along an already established line is not possible and each selection can only be at 90 degrees to the previous.

However multiples of 90 degrees are available so a 180 and 270 degree turn is good.

I think also that the last bendy bus was the number 207 and as such the Garden variation rule on oblique angles can apply and a 207 degree turn will also be permitted but only on days with a T in them.


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webberg wrote:I think Paul that it's a little more subtle.

There are lots and lots of rules. Some are sensible, some or not, some are contradictatory.

The essential point though is that each player follows his chosen version of the rules. Each player can also change the rules he wishes to play with at each move.

None of the rules are written down. They all have variations and nobody knows which version is correct or more appropriate.

Thus in this game we might have had 8 players using 12 different sets of rules.

Nobody knows all the rules. Nobody understands the complete rule book.

So I suppose you could say that there are no rules but equally that there are too many.

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Paul Victory wrote:- Onwards and upwards! (or is that, to infinity and beyond!? :? ).
And sideways and around !

Mr Webberg you are of course correct in pointing out that it is not the 1945 Omnibus version to which you were referring, I was however under the impression that the Johnson non integrated transport rules of 2008 contained the omnibus variant as well as the PM bicycle inclusion, this may of course be open to interpretation.

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I think Paul should have a go from Picadilly Circus
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webberg wrote:I think Paul should have a go from Picadilly Circus
That's a bit of a hospital pass isn't it Graham [-X :twisted:

Asking Paul to follow two consecutive stations on the Picadilly Line is something of a tall order, although I should think that with a little thought he should be able to work out a suitable move - over to you Paul :wink:
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Let's start a new game (depot rules) with:

Victoria

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It's always a gripping game when you start from Victoria. Good call Graham.

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Assuming we're going to accept the 1923 amendments, and as we're still more than 10 days away from the Summer Solstice...

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I'm going to cite the "wet weather" amendment to the 1923 rules and move to

St John's Wood

(The only tube station without a letter from the word "mackeral" in the name which I think gets me an extra point?)
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Ooooh! So early in the game too! I'm going to huff you Graham for missing that obvious changeover at Baker Street (but the unabridged version of the "wet weather" amendment to the 1923 rules does allow you to keep your bonus point).

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Scoop, I see that you're playing the "suburbia" gambit but I'm just not buying it.

A neat blocking move I think with

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Nice move there Graham 8) That block is only valid for one turn though, so I'm off to

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Ouch. I misread that. I didn't realise you could use the diagonals in the "Wet Weather" amendment.

I think I'm in trouble now but I'm going to try a fianchetto with

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More than a touch oblique.

Today in London it is sunny (not for long) and I think that the wet weather variant is no longer valid.

We therefore have to go to the Fletcher omnibus rules of 1976, incorporating the bendibus rules of 1992.

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I'd assumed that the Bendibus rules had been expunged following Boris' decision (along with the Routemaster byelaws), but it good to hear that this is not the case. The temporary restrictions in place leading up to the Olympics do seem to limit my options here, but how about

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And that moves us neatly into the Thameslink Timetable variant (2001). Due to engineering works at Waterloo I'm taking us all to

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Perivale

I'm assuming that the Thameslink Timetable variant is the one that includes the spelling mistake?
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Yes Graham. The spelling mistake was confirmed by the Uxbridge English dictionary but was explained away as a 'typographical misprint' by the publisher.

I was expecting Mat to take his turn today but he's obviously got his nose stuck in his copy of the Anglesey Leisure Centre Summer Events Wall Planner. I hope that he will be in agreement with me that only move that make sense from here is

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AH, I spot a possible checkmate in three moves.

Is it too early to use the Olympic variant whereby some stations are taken out of play on account of being too bloody busy for the average commuter to use during the games?

If so, Temple (I know it's closed but the rules we're using permit this).

If the Olympic rules don't yet apply, then Embankment
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Apologies for the tardiness of my move :oops: I'd actually become mired in the absurd technicalities of the 1854 rulebook. I'm not too sure whether the Olympic rules have come into effect (likely to be difficult to tell as, my experience is that many stations are "too bloody busy for the average commuter" on a daily basis!), but whether moving from Temple or Embankment, and in adherence to the 1854 statutes;

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We need to be very clear on the Olympic Variant. This only comes into force when the Olympic Flame moves to within 100 statute miles of The Mall, on the 28th of June. However you have both overlooked something far more sinister (and already alluded to by Graham). The Summer Solstice Appendix to the 1923 rules is still in force for another 51 minutes and gives Carte Blanche to any player invoking it to move directly to any station they please :twisted:

With this in mind I'm going to

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Decidedly sneaky move.

I'm going to be controversial with Euston.

This replicates the famous (infamous?) move made by Willie Rushton in I think episode 64.

In its day it caused a bit of a debate with the outcome unclear until Humph (as usual) had the final say by quoting Homer (not Simpson) with "whatever"
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