| Is everyone ready? We're playing Welsh rules, Victorian variation: No riding twice on the same segment of track, and you must stop at the appropriate interchange station to switch lines-- which, really, is common sense. We'll let the two ladies begin, shall we gents? | I move to Baker Street where I shall pick up –what else— the Five Orange Pips. Would anyone care to trade an orange pip for a green pip? |
| I’m glad the NOBLE DONUT rules are out of effect… I had no idea how I was going to say Bank. | Hmm... I think my best play for now is Otter's Bend. Strictly for defence, of course. |
| Put me on Chronic Grass. At least I can have some in the game if not my front yard. | What a coincidence that I get to mark my D for David on the Red Chip at the same time I move to the Mnemonic Goal! The initial, as we all know, is for making the first move of the game that is more than six stations away. |
| I'm off to Earl's Court. Or perhaps I should say Oracle Rust, because, with the first stop at a nobly named station, NOBLE DONUT rules are in effect. | I move to Ural Corset, signifying the end of the NOBLE DONUT rules which began there. Thank God! |
| Down to Elephant & Castle, please. Don't forget my 20-point bonus for stopping at a station with an ampersand. | Embankment for me, please. As per DALTON’S RULE, I switch the Checkered Flag for a Red Pennant, for stopping at a station whose name contains another station. |
| I have a Trainhopper Day Pass because I’ve never traveled more than one station at a time, so I’m exempt from station restrictions, including the KNIP, as long as I hold the pass. So I’ll go ahead and move to Great Portland Street. | I'll go ahead and snag Green Park. Definitely a strategic place to be at any time of game, but especially now, as demonstrated by Higgs in the '88 Yorkshire Open. |
| My move to Anger Perk makes me the first player to visit a station that has been visited by someone else, which, because we’re playing the Victorian variation, means I immediately get an extra turn. | I take the footpath to Tower Gateway, and because I went by foot, my turn is not yet over: I continue from there to Limehouse. |
| Dastardly play. Well, I guess I should prepare for the Pistoleer Revolt then. Pass me the Silver Bullet, if you please. | London Bridge for me, and pin the Checkered Flag at Finsbury Park. I don't want to have to worry about a Nelson's Gambit. |
| Well bugger… I guess I don’t have much of a choice, do I? I was going to move on to Moorgate, but with KNIP in effect I think my best move is back to London Bridge, despite it being HISTORIAN'S FOLLY. | A Mind Eel would probably be wise about now. And because I've moved to a station whose initial (when not in NOBLE DONUT rules) immediately follows that of the station I just left, I put a Black Chip on Ogre Awarded. No further traffic through that station. |
| Aha! I was hoping you’d do that! I invoke VERNE’S RULE, which, because it is so rare, I shall recite: “If a player finds his or herself to be at an interchange for a line upon which he or she is the only player not yet to have ridden,” which, thanks to the last play, is now true, “And if that same player has been denied the right to an immutable play,” that being my failed pass, of course, “that player may seize victory immediately, no matter whose turn it is, provided that doing so is a legal move for the player at that time.” Mornington Crescent! |
I’ll move to Notting Hill Gate. And if I’m not mistaken, we’re all on the Circle Line now, which initiates a KNIP situation?
Catherine isn’t on the Circle Line. Yes, she is… Did you forget that Edwards v. Rochester ruled Bank and Monument to be the same station in 1998? KNIP on Circle Line stations. Everyone has to leave the Circle Line as soon as legally able, and all Circle Line Stations are out of bounds until someone has visited every line. |
| I always said that 1974 was the Crux for Disco, which is how I remember disco star Gloria Gaynor making this exact move in that very year. Of course, for her, it was a matter of survival... I'm just after the Maroon Token. | I think Paddington seems like a good spot. We're not, after all, playing with the restriction on 4-line stations. |
| Thanks Allan, I'll go first so we can just go clockwise around the table. Start me off at Piccadilly Circus and hand me the Two-Headed Farthing for starting at a station with two pairs of double letters. | This game really makes me think... I believe I'm Nearly Saner from playing it so often. Not quite though, so I'm going to pawn off the Cuckoo's Egg to Elisabeth. |
| I do believe some Stoutening Honks are in order. Unfortunately, I haven't a Bulb Horn and it appears that nobody else has one for barter either. | Just trying to picture this one makes me laugh… A Retard Cottonmouth, please. |
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I pass my turn.
You can’t pass until you leave the Circle Line. The line is in KNIP. But I thought passing was an immutable play? It doesn’t matter; station restrictions override immutable plays. Well, put me at Tottenham Court Road, then. | Can someone put me at Tower Hill? I can't quite reach it from here. I will take the Crown Jewels Card for that, too. |
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Put me back at Other Will.
Bertie, you do realise that you’re committing HISTORIAN’S FOLLY by repeating a station you’ve already visited? That will cost you your next turn. Yes, I’m aware, but I think it’s well worth it at this stage. | I'll take Wembley Park, and end my turn there because I'm hoping to pick up the Minimalist Chip later on. |
| I’ll go to Written Mess, and take the Two-Tailed Farthing for a station containing two pairs of double letters under NOBLE DONUT rules. | White City, please. I’d better be careful or I’m going to trap myself. |