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OT, Mornington Crescent: Round 8 :- (Tudor Court Rules)

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  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited November 2020
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Well, the ington at the end is certainly ringing a bell - if only I could recall what goes with it.

    Iddle I po ?

     

    *for the unenlightened

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  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720

    I was contemplating Parsons Green > Knightsbridge using the "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" adjunct, but just as I was about to hit 'Post' I remembered that that's Plantagenet Court rules, isn't it ? So luckily I caught myself before that bit of foul play. Instead I'll use Royal Prerogative and go for the safe and simple

    Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington  > Parsons Green >

    Regents Park

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Interestinf little bit of info to add to that.  Everyone calls it Regents Park.  It's real title is The Regent's Park, named after the "Playboy" Prince who later became King George IV. TThe park was initially the idea of the Prince Regent, hence why it was named for him.

    I bet Mrs Trellis doesn't know that.

  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720

    Well.

    That seems to have totally flummoxed, gobsmacked and dumbfounded all the players, doesn't it ?

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,029
    edited March 2021

    I must be getting old.. its been years since I flummoxed..Last ime was during a croquet match at Haddon Hall. Had a bit too much Pimms (wi' extra Gin), and hit way to hard, breaking the sticky wicket I was attempting, and flying on to a nearby cricket macth where it landed in the sticky wicket rebounded and flew towards the stumps - Yorker!.. That was an epic flummox... but we digress..

    So.. using the floummox gambit - I'll go..

    Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington  > Parsons Green >Regents Park >

    Hammersmith

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,745

    Well, if we are on Playboys then apparently we need to try Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington  > Parsons Green > Regents Park

    Hyde Park Corner

    though having that on the same tour as Maidenhead might trigger Malvolio's Malintent Misrule

  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited March 2021

    Since we appear to have hit a double-bogie* situation that means that  rule guideline (4) comes into play, as noted in the OP, meaning that Richard's move is struck off.

    However, I've just realized that I could post a move that's consequential to Richard's Hyde Park Corner and not hacsart's Hammersmith, thereby automatically triggering  rule guideline 4a), the 'fait accompli' amendment to guideline (4), also noted in the OP, meaning that hacsart's move would be overruled.

    So I'm now torn between playing a straight bat from Hammersmith to Shepherd's Bush Market, or going for a rather more eccentric googly with a wide outswing from Hyde Park Corner to Shepherd's Bush Market. I really can't make up my mind - oooh, decisions, decisions...

     

    *not a double bogey - that's something completelety different

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,745

    I have no problem with being struck off, if that helps.

  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720

    I've changed my mind, I'll go for the unexpected(ly obvious)...

    Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington  > Parsons Green > Regents Park > Hammersmith >

    Waterloo

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited March 2021

    OOh    From Waterloo  one has so many options.   I think  use the shortest tube line of the lot  and stop off briefly at Bank before continuing onwards to go shopping,  and yes why not head out the way the previous player was originally thinking,  but I am stopping short of his destination 

    Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington  > Parsons Green > Regents Park > Hammersmith > Waterloo  >

    Queensway

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  • Eustace ScrubbEustace Scrubb Posts: 2,703

    The sequence of 
    Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington  > Parsons Green > Regents Park > Hammersmith > Waterloo  > Queensway > 

    compels one to catch the Elizabeth Line by a variant on Maneuver 007 at
     

    Bond Street

     

  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited March 2021

    I just can't resist it...

    Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington  > Parsons Green > Regents Park > Hammersmith > Waterloo  > Queensway > Bond Street

    Gold(fing)ers Green

     

    Footnote: For those who have only seen Bond Street > Gold(fing)ers Green played in the Broccoli Variant, it might surprise you to learn that the move is actually permitted in the Tudor Court rules as a nod to Thomas Howard, Lord High Treasurer to Henry VII (or VIII ?)

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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,029

    well.. seeing as I'm just backi from a 3 day emergency hospital stay, I can use the "I'm not dead yet" sub clause variant and run to St. Paul's - nearest the St. Bart's Hosital - which goes back to 1123

    So:

    ower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington  > Parsons Green > Regents Park > Hammersmith > Waterloo  > Queensway > Bond Street>Gold(fing)ers Green>

    St. Pauls

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