"Lipmann's Rules Game"

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• Tolken token totaliser: >>>>Warning, three(3) tokens discarded; derailment imminent on the Northen Line

  .>.>.>.>Recommed move to reopen Circle and claim all existing tokens on the Northern

• Tolken: Charing Cross (nodal). Tolken Token Totaliser: 43
• Silk: Cross hatching the central and the northern with a massive token spend (3 blue, 4 red, 2 yellow), a blue peg at Liverpool Street and a white peg at Burnt Oak Marble Arch
• Watty: Oxford Circus, reversing LV on the Central, with callous disregard for the consequences.... Oh, and is that a black token? Don't mind if I do...
• JLE: [Watty] Don't know about the effects on other players, but it's certainly done a lot for my LV - I was having to fight against the current until your move. Ta very much, have a puce token. Hainault
• PaulWay: Temple (Inchcliffe's Manoeuvre)
• Tolken: My patented totaliser has started counting all the tokens in play, regardless of colour. I'm very sorry about this, but I have to remove some from the game to reset it. Dollis Hill initiating critical mass. All loosley held tokens immediately sucked into the gravity well and compressed into a huge amorphous lump.
• Rich: Oh, big hairy arse on a spoon. Dollis Hill.
• Silk: Dollis Hill I appear to have overspent in tokens.
• Jrs: Dollis Hill I've got a blue one. I'll throw that into the pot and we'll see if we can gather enough to let us break out from this.
• Tolken: Er... I think this may have backfired... Dollis Hill.
• Flossie: I've got three anti-green tokens to throw in, but they don't seem to have made much difference. Dollis Hill.
• Watty: [Flossie] Not until I add these three green tokens. Brace yourselves, everyone...Booooooom!!!! *Cough, cough*.
  Right. where am I? Oh, bugger.
  Dollis Hill.
• Fat German: As this is my first move I can use it do declare home at Kilburn. Doncha love Lipmann's rules?
• Rich: Hotting up here. Goodge Street, avoiding the carnage... all I need now is...
• JLE: ...certainly not Dollis Hill again.
• PaulWay: No, indeed not. Balham, this is Balham (a more modern variant of the traditional DH sidestep)
• Rich: Marvellous. The Dollis Hill recursion allows me to avoid PaulWay's cunning spoon trap, and hence with the addition of two red tokens to the smouldering cauldron, I can pivot off Euston Square and play Mornington Crescent. Is that OK with everyone?

• Rich (Winner's Comments): First Lipmann's game I've ever won, so a bit of a personal triumph for me. I usually get stuck mid-game in a Central line loop, which leaves me in frang until it's too late to do anything constructive. I think I'm working out the problem now though. Cheers all.
• Tolken: I only hope those last two red tokens don't send it critical; I'd hate to have to start the next game with that hanging over me.
• Silk: No panic, you just about avoided a yellow caution there. Be mor careful next time though!
• JLE: Bravo.
• a: angel
• Chris Chan: Mornington Crescent. How the hell do u play this thing?
• penelope: [Chris Chan] See my advice in 'Advice' Game.
• Doggy: Is MC actually a game, if so how do you play the game
• Aunty Helpful: Well, first you must ensure that you are properly attired. If you are not wearing the correct equipment, you will not be taken at all seriously. Birkenbeck's of the Strand are the best known purveyor's of MC accoutrements, and are well worth the journey. They have also been known to give very useful advice to novice players.
• Uncle Useless: Ignore that if you are male, Doggy - which I assume you are given your name. Females tend to Aunty's way of approaching the game, but that's because they attempt to divert attention from the fact that they (apart from Mrs Trellis, of course) have no intelligence and certainly lack tactical skills. My advice, sir, is to be yourself. I must admit though that I do find wearing a topper does give one a slight advantage.
• nights: and we wonder why we have very few new players...
• Uncle Useless: Ah, nights, old chap, have you forgotten your own introduction to the unfathomable game? I certainly have not forgotten mine. The sleepless nights of uncertainty, the never ending doubt, the shaky fingers on the keyboard as one entered one's first tentative move. Ah, them were the days.
• Aunty Helpful: [Uncle Useless]Oh, and I suppose that's why you play dressed in a cute little black number, ruby red high heels and the latest Louis Vuiton handbag?
• Cousin Clueless: I've been playing for years and I still don't know what I'm doing. Maybe it's the blindfold they told me I had to wear. Does anyone else use one?
• Aunty Helpful: Only when I'm playing Uncle Useless.
• Uncle Useless: With Uncle Useless if you don't mind, my dear. You know full well that it's not the apparel in which I am interested, it's just the leather.
  [Cousin Clueless] If, and only if, game gets serious.
• Ogre: Are u gunna start a new game? I bought all the corrrect equipment specially!
• Interloper: You would think with all the hints scattered around, like Game over! And what a splendid game it was, too plus all the assorted links leading to the main list and various active games, we wouldnt get resurrections and oddity postings like this, alas.
• Moudly: Ohhhhooo... Handbags at dawn...
• Lord Nelson: St. Pauls
• Bill: Two yellows to the Kilburn

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