King Of The Hill                BLANKETYBLANK                   Turn Four

   HORNBY INTO ENEMY TERRITORY          N O R T H
  BUT EVERYONE ELSE ON THE HILL            A/\1
					   /XX\
					 B/\XX/\2               XX IMPASSABLE
Creak creak... progress again            /XX\/XX\               XX   SQUARE
in BLANKETYBLANK after far too         C/\XX/\XX/\3
long, and, yes, that was my own        /nw\/XX\/ne\             ~~ ROCKY POOL
silly fault. For now I'm a full      D/\06/\XX/\01/\4           ~~   SQUARE
time GM and at your service.         /nw\/nw\/  \/ne\
				   E/\05/\12%V  /\02/\5         HH   TARGET
			  north    /  \/  \%  V/  \/ne\   north HH   SQUARE
			  west   F/\  /\  %\  /V  /\03/\6  east
				 /  \/  \%nw\/neV/  \/ne\
Do you know how depressing     G/\  /\  %\11/\07/V  /\04/\7
it is to be dealing with       /  \/nw\%  \/  \/  V/ne\/ne\
orders dated almost three    H/\  /\01%\  /\  ::  /V08/\05/\8
months ago? Probably as      /  \/nw\%nw\/nw\:ne:/  V/  \/  \
depressing as it must be   I/\  /\02%\03::04/:09:\  /V  /\  /\9
for you, I know...!        /XX\/nw\%  \:nw:/HH::se\/neV/ne\/XX\
			 J/\XX/\07%\  /:09:\HH/\05/\11/V06/\XX/\10
	       W E S T   /XX\/XX\%  \/  ::nw\/ne\/  \/neV/XX\/XX\  E A S T
			 \XX/\XX/V  /\  /\10/\10::  /\12%\XX/\XX/
On top of that there     1\/XX\/  V/sw\/sw\/se\:se:/  \%se\/XX\/A
weren't any conflicts      \XX/\  /V07/\08::03/:04:\  %\06/\XX/
at all this turn, but      2\/  \/  V/sw\:~~:/se::  \%  \/se\/B
fourteen pieces moved        \  /\  /V01/:~~:\09/\  %\  /\12/
and the middle of the map    3\/  \/swV/sw::se\/se\%  \/se\/C
is starting to look a lot      \  /\03/V05/\02/\08%\  /\11/
more congested than it did     4\/sw\/swV/  \/  \%  \/se\/D
before.                          \09/\04/V  /\  %\  /\10/
			  south  5\/sw\/swV/  \%sw\/  \/E  south
			  west     \10/\12/V  %\06/\  /     east
				   6\/  \/  V%se\/  \/F
I've fully treble-checked this       \  /\  /\01/\  /    Phone numbers      
adjudication and hope that we        7\/  \/XX\/se\/G    NE: 01322 348905   
can get up to speed once again.        \  /\XX/\07/      NW: 0171 723 2395  
Congratulations to the players for     8\/XX\/XX\/H                         
sticking to the game despite all         \XX/\XX/        E-mail address 
the COAs that have been taking place;    9\/XX\/I  SW: simon.hornby@   
only Des hasn't moved house yet while      \XX/              micromuse.co.uk  
the game has been taking place...?        10\/J    SE: wouldn't be working      
					S O U T H      any more, would it?

NE: Des Langford, 8 Hornbeam Lane, Barnehurst, Kent DA7 6HH
NW: Mark Sheiham, Flat 1, Balcombe House, Taunton Place, London NW1 6HA
SW: Simon Hornby, *COA* 77 Rowan Road, Merton, London SW16
Do you only have half a postcode, Simon? Second COA in as many turns...!
SE: Martin Bates, *COA* 11 Old Meadow Drive, Denton, Manchester M34 3TF
(These COAs have been taken from the COA section at the back of OMR 21, and
 so might be wrong. Neither Simon nor Martin informed me personally, boo hoo.)

	And so, as the sun sinks slowly down the plughole, issue seven of GIT
comes to an end. I was only intending to do a normal sized one as well, but
it sort of swelled (and I almost completely forgot to include the results of
Hang-Git that I had written up; it would have been nicer to submit a 12 page
subzine than a 13 page one). Just time to mention one family trip out. We
went sixty miles up the coast to Morpeth, where my parents used to take me as
a baby. One of the things we visited was a bollard at the bottom of a hill
in a park. As a baby too young to walk, Mum pushed a buggy I was sitting in
rather too hard and it started to roll down the hill, out of control... and I
hit my head on the bollard. After that I started to bleed rather a lot and had
to be taken to hospital. The bump on the head explains a lot, doesn't it?
	Have a good month! I hope you've enjoyed reading this issue of Games
In Testing, and look forward to being with you all again next time round...
	Take care,
	  Chris.