Mornington Crescent

[RDP]

Leading one on to White Hart Lane.

 

[Ashley Hill]

After that I feel the need to move house. I’d like a Swiss Cottage.

 

[RDP]

Or one could go up market at Crystal Palace.

 

[DarloRich]

Or one could go up market at Crystal Palace.

I don't go south of the river this time of night. Arsenal

 

[RDP]

Giving one the ammunition to go to Gunnersbury.

 

[Spamcan81]

Fleming’s cosine rule would indicate that a move to Bank is required.

 

[RDP]

With our bankers draft it's off to Lloyd Park.

 

[Spamcan81]

Donning my Park Keeper’s hat it’s off to Queen’s Park

 

[RDP]

and scoring a hat trick with Sundridge Park.

 

[Purple Train]

Vice's Verse (1878), I believe, comes into play now:

And shouldst the Park as three amass,
With but the one move shalt ye pass: [Vice was from Yorkshire, hence the amass/pass rhyme]
Once and once only - twice a curse -
The omnipresent shall come first.

For those who aren't so well versed in slightly dated English, it basically means Park Royal.

 

[RDP]

and so to Royal Oak.

 

[DarloRich]

Personally I find the ale at the Royal Oak to be quite poor. I prefer the Prince Regent

 

[Spamcan81]

Being a member of a large family, I'm off to visit my Seven Sisters

 

[RDP]

A terminal move landing one in Brixton.

 

[Purple Train]

Taylor's Ninth Coefficient (1996) suggests that National Rail should be off limits for the next four moves (rounding down from 4.28571). Canons Park seems to satisfy that.

 

[Ashley Hill]

According to the expanded (although not definitive) edition of the rules printed on page 94 of an old copy of Private Eye the next sensible move should be to Southwark.

 

[Fermiboson]

This subjects us, via the opposite diagonal rule, to the Central line for the next three moves.

Woodford.

 

[DerekC]

I have drawn a Community Chest card which told me to pay a £10 fine or take a Chance. I took a Chance and got a "Go Directly to Nidd" card. I can't afford the fare to Knaresborough so I have self- referred myself to Wormwood Scrubs - nearest station White City. I hope that's acceptable to The Committee.

 

[Trackman]

We are flying through this game, so the next move must be Heathrow Terminal 4

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[RDP]

Playing the PM Rule sees us at Eden Park.

 

[DerekC]

I am afraid that's a gross violation of the fourteenth guiding principle. I am sorry, but I must follow the rules. I have absolutely no choice in this, however painful it may be to both of us.

Tufnell Park

 

[RDP]

And for the hat trick Green Park.

 

[Ostrich]

Objection! Applying the Crufts' Principle, that's too many parks, too many trees ...... we must now proceed to wield the axe at Fairlop!

 

[Ashley Hill]

I have reservations about your choice of line. Sticking with my Central reservation I’ll have to go to Perivale .

 

[Purple Train]

And for the hat trick Green Park.

Given that's already been played once, and Vice's Verse consequently used, my interpretation of Vice's "twice a curse" bit is that hat-tricks of Parks should not be done a second time. You're sailing rather close to the Nidd, my dear fellow - some of it is navigable, I think, but by no means all.

I have reservations about your choice of line. Sticking with my Central reservation I’ll have to go to Perivale .

Kenton, surely, if one is to use the Betjeman principle.

 

[Spamcan81]

There is evidence that this game predates the arrival of the London Underground network but I shall resist playing one of the numerous Hansom Cab stands of the era and head for Arnos Grove.

 

[Henffordd]

Which is an anagram of a Grosvenor, leading to Victoria.

 

[Purple Train]

Bermondsey.

 

[Spamcan81]

Bermodsey is an interesting move. I will therefore ask Scotty to beam me to Ladbroke Grove

 

[DerekC]

That’s a real pain. I am sorry, but it is. I have to enter the four-dimensional space coordinates into my Brinkmann optimisation spreadsheet by hand, you know. If you had picked something sensible it would have been easy. No thought for the poor bl**dy operator, that’s the trouble. I‘ll fix you.

Bank