h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That doesn't leave much room to move now, so

Warwick Avenue

this games suddenly tightened up and got very tactical

St Paul's

Indeed - but wouldn't a bit of explanations be in order?

As can be seen on the Mother Page (A769395), there are loads of Rule Amendments in play "unless otherwise stated". Now, nobody specifically stated anything - but in Stovold's general entry on Beginner's Games, roughly the first half of these are not to be used in such games. Reverse bidding, by reverse analogy, generally is - while the only rule generally acknowledged in just about all rule dissertations to be surely unusable in Beginner's Play is the 1857 Port Cork Counterclockwise move.

Which doesn't help as it's largely unusable anyway.

So all the nidding and spooning above can only be seen as a sudden tightening, I concur.

And so, to avoid Reverse-Badgering -

Barons Court

Ahhh. Many a player has been undone with a reverse-badger

Mill Hill East

Beckton Park

The mistake move to nowhere only a high level player can take it off, I've not been playing long i don't rank as mystic enough to pull off the non-move.

Seven Sisters

Is it just me - or was the chapter on non-moves in Stovold's dramatically shortened from the 16th to the 17th edition?

Hatton Cross

I think you may have the concise edition

High Barnet

Kew Gardens

No - but maybe it's merely an artefact in the Danish translation.

Goodge Street

Burnt Oak

Northwood Hills

Lambeth North

Willesden Green

Hmm, looks like that has put me in Nid. To get out, I'll go to

Pimlico

if you where nidded does that mean follow on play needs to respond with a trans diagonal link such as

Stockwell

Euston square

this could be a dangerous move

King's Cross St. Pancras

Trying to fool beginners into something there, aren't you?

New Cross