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PRAR

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Sep 17, 2003, 4:29:06 PM9/17/03
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And lo, Clive Page <ju...@page.demon.co.uk> spake unto us
all anouncing

>In article <a36bmvc3jghqlj500...@4ax.com>, Stevie D
><stevieiny...@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>>Beeston and Attenborough are part of "Nottingham Group", so doubling
>>back is allowed as part of a mapped route, providing it starts and
>>finishes outside the group.
>
>Isn't this also one of the rules of the game of "Mornington Crescent"?
>
I can't check my copy of the rules as I have leant it out,
is there somebody on here who can confirm this either way.
It looks like a sound knip counter measure and it may even
work against the dreaded Dollis Hill loop.


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Michael Parry

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Sep 18, 2003, 1:30:34 AM9/18/03
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In message <3f68bda6...@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, PRAR <pr...@deadspam.com>
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>And lo, Clive Page <ju...@page.demon.co.uk> spake unto us
>all anouncing
>
>>In article <a36bmvc3jghqlj500...@4ax.com>, Stevie D
>><stevieiny...@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>>>Beeston and Attenborough are part of "Nottingham Group", so doubling
>>>back is allowed as part of a mapped route, providing it starts and
>>>finishes outside the group.
>>
>>Isn't this also one of the rules of the game of "Mornington Crescent"?
>>
>I can't check my copy of the rules as I have leant it out,
>is there somebody on here who can confirm this either way.

If the rules are leant to the East, Newark Flat Crossing is wild; if
they're leaning to the West, Spondon Works is high.

HTH.

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Graeme Wall

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Sep 19, 2003, 6:35:15 AM9/19/03
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In message <3f68bda6...@News.CIS.DFN.DE>
pr...@deadspam.com (PRAR) wrote:

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> >
> I can't check my copy of the rules as I have leant it out,
> is there somebody on here who can confirm this either way.
> It looks like a sound knip counter measure and it may even
> work against the dreaded Dollis Hill loop.
>
>

Only if your opponent is not proceding along the diagonal, or it is Thursday.

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