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 Post subject: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:56 pm 
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Well that was a surprise. You managed to negate all of my strategies and I'm assuming those of other players and win the game in a move I don't think anyone saw coming. Congratulations! And thanks to everyone for playing. It was a good game and lots of fun.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
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Pie. Therefore, Mornington Crescent.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:15 am 
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Thank you very much! I'll jump on that if no one else is going to.

I'm next going to take a calculated risk and introduce a whole bushel of apples into the equation. This close to the endgame, it may seem foolish, but I don't think anyone has ever found a successful way to mathematically unify this many apples.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:27 am 
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I think I see where drachefly is going with this. I don't think I'm in a position to stop it, but I'll drop all my gold coins at my position if someone can do something unexpected with them.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
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I convert all of my gold into tin and glass at a 25% discount (would have been 60% but for Kitoba's Wooster Slide, consarn it).

I ooze into sector B5 as a whole.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
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And that little debacle pretty much ruined my chances at winning good luck to the rest of you.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:28 pm 
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Darn it, AT! I nearly had it. I was sure my play to corner the frivolity market was going to go unnoticed. But what you just did completely blew my chances. And with all my protractors invested in chihuahua futures, I'm tapped. Thanks for a good game, everyone.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 7:32 pm 
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Argghh! AT that threatens my scattered territories. I think if I abandon my orchard, move all my farmers in between my fort and science lab and play the 'convert plowshares to swords' (thanks kitoba) I should be able to continue on.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:50 pm 
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*takes a huge, larger-than-life sized London Underground map out of his pocket and studies it intently*

So, we've been playing something completely different for several pages, and all of a sudden we're switching to "Mornington Crescent"? I would cry foul if it wasn't for the clear precedent of the 1916 Olympic games wherein three hurdlers, a discus hurler and a tennis player all unexpectedly switched to MC, thus winning Britain the gold, silver and bronze, not to mention the tin and glass medals.

Although banned immediately from major sport, and from all live games, an oversight in the rules means that it was never banned from online play, which is quite understandable considering the game dates back to the late Cretaceous Era. I've never seen that little loophole actually exploited, however, so bravo to you, AT!

However, I don't think it will help you much. Since I'm already at Woodford, I'll slide to Stepney Green and from there to Ravenscourt. That's the famous WooSteR slide. Although sadly it removes the bonus for pacifists, it does also rob drache's gold of nearly all of its value. That ought to ensure that he, at least, does not emerge the winner!

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
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Well, that was unexpected.

Rolling a d4 produced 4, which means that the curse is over, but Kitoba, Steave and I grow by another factor of 2. He's slightly larger than Los Angeles now, but we're still only a few square km. Maybe we should be playing on him instead of... that thing.

Checking the table, I see that I start kind of... spanning the entire B7 sector of the London Underground. I extend a pseudopod in the direction of B6.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:03 pm 
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WE ARE NOT PLAYING MORNINGTON CRESCENT!!!

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Sorry, shouting was uncalled for. But I can't stand it when these games devolve. I mean, we were doing just fine without a formal rule book. Now I've got to scour the garage for the crate with my 1909 edition rule set. And I swear the movers packed it in the very back. It's going to take me three hours to dig it out and then I'll have to find the hand truck to move it in the house.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:23 pm 
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I eat the stinky cheese.

That probably messes up some of your plans. Sorry, old chaps.

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:54 pm 
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Frak!

Well, with the loss of that shipping lane, I've been pushed off of the west coast. I'm going to fall back to my redoubt in the Rocky Mountains and consolidate my forces in preparation for the next game...

*Boards military transport just as the nearby stinky cheese factory explodes, coating the entire area with the incredibly valuable, experimental substance. GH sighs*

I could've had it all, had it not been for that blasted attack on the port!

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:21 pm 
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*streaks the thread one last time*

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 Post subject: Re: !Game Backwards The
 Post Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:26 pm 
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Damn... I now see that my intel was faulty. My stealth attack on the port went much too well. It wasn't as fortified as expected. The sentient rutabagas were consumed by the R.A.T.S. when the defenses collapsed before the specified time.

It's too far gone for option gamma now. Have to cut my loses. At least I thrashed other peoples' plans in the process.

I'm done.

...also it is getting more difficult having two games running co-currently in the same thread. It's hard to keep track.

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