# A friendly game of Mornington Crescent **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 29, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179 "2020-12-29T14:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/341 "2025-08-01T15:47:21Z")
Fine, while you debate your side show I will go to **Walthamstow Queen’s Road**. Please note the double tripple (lth-mst) consonants in a word starting and ending with a W, the double vocal and the embedded genitive, all on the first of the month. That doubles my blue tokens (Alderney, 1967) and since it is in Zone 3 direction is reversed. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/342 "2025-08-01T15:49:41Z")
Worse. **Maus** , is that 12 tokens you’re holding? I believe the limit has ALWAYS been **10** in this game. It would be a shame if some enterprising player were to take us beyond zone 4 where a Count could be officially called is all I’m saying…. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/343 "2025-08-01T16:01:53Z")
I thought Ms Pryce died. Or am I thinking about Muriel Rice who won the world title in 1956 ? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/344 "2025-08-01T16:04:05Z")
Wait - are we using the Somerset or Shropshire variants? If the latter, I humbly apologize and will gladly forfeit two tokens. Playing off **Pardel-Lux** ’ move and keeping within Zone 3 (just in case), I think “Beefy” Bingham’s gambit would put the next move at: **Tooting Broadway** ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/345 "2025-08-01T16:19:54Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > MC in 3, if I’m very much mistaken. Ha ! I was right - I _ **was** _ very much mistaken ! Anyway.. Preston Road..Walthamstow Queen’s Road.. Tooting Broadway.. there’s only one place to go, namely … **Wimbledon** ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/346 "2025-08-01T19:48:41Z")
Just a simple move here. No need for alarm. I know when I am beaten. Hickory Road ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/347 "2025-08-01T22:18:25Z")
Within the Mornington Crescent canon are many loose cannons. Providing oxygen to the legacy of Pryce is retrograde when immurement is a more befitting, even humane approach. Further, am unsure whether @Biotop is either beaten or alarmed but shoehorning into these proceedings the fictitous representation of Morden Station (as seen in the LWT 1995 adaption of “Hickory Dickory Dock”) indicates they aren’t adverse to carrying a bear up their jumper either… if you get my drift. Methinks time to spend a red, blue and gold token and reach **Whitechapel** , which is close enough to the whiff of cordite for my personal well-being. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/348 "2025-08-01T22:51:02Z")
I am aware it is not the best move at this stage, but I can’t avoid playing **Baker Street** at least once in every game. Superstition? Romanticism? Don’t know, but as long as it floats my ELO score I can hardly complain. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/349 "2025-08-01T23:18:26Z")
The false victory earlier allows for unauthorized though verifiably fictitious stations through Vernon’s Updated Rules of Order (2026) retroactive pre-publishing. Pre-order a copy from Amazon UK if you need to confirm. I thus can and will resurface at: Canary Wharf ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/350 "2025-08-02T20:11:29Z")
Did we ever decide which rules we’re playing ? (I should have specified - I did start this game after all.) If it’s Palmer’s Conclave Rules, then **Mornington Crescent** else I’ll stir things up a bit with **Cheshunt** ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/351 "2025-08-04T12:08:55Z")
Good game, sir! ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/352 "2025-08-04T12:32:16Z")
Not so fast. There’s always **Chalfont & Latimer** ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/353 "2025-08-04T12:58:27Z")
**Elephant and Castle** is always worth a detour. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/354 "2025-08-04T15:18:47Z")
Palmer was disqualified in 2017 after he was caught stuffing sixteen tokens and a live weasel down his pants during tournament play. As a result, his Conclave rule sub-set was retroactively repealed. Unfortunately, that revoked a number of titles, including Pryce come to think of it. Perhaps that is why she was always so angry. But I digress. **Finchley Road & Frognal** ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/355 "2025-08-04T18:40:55Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Palmer was disqualified in 2017 after he was caught stuffing sixteen tokens and a live weasel down his pants during tournament play. As a result, his Conclave rule sub-set was retroactively repealed. Fair enough. Cheating bastard scumbag. **White City** ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/356 "2025-08-05T12:31:28Z")
**Arsenal** ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/357 "2025-08-05T12:58:44Z")
I confess to being confuzzled at the current state of play. With strategic intent I have accumulated tokens legitimately and positioned my calls for express purposes. But are these now in baulk? Is Nid still in play, or revoked, or to be simply ignored? If so for what period? Do I have too many tokens? Are they invalid and of no worth? This is confounding. Get me now to **Rectory Road** for some serious contemplation. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/358 "2025-08-05T13:28:23Z")
Right - It’s simple. Your accumulated tokens are fine as long as we remain out of Zone 1 or on the Overground lines\[1\]. If the previous turn had been not in Zone 2, your tokens would have been in bualk\[2\]. Nid is still in play for the next four turns or until we move to the Northern Line\[3\]. They will revoked if the next move is to an Interchange \[4\] Until we determine whether we are using the Somerset or Shropshire variants, I’m playing it safe by limiting myself to ten tokens. I suggest you do the same. **Charing Cross** This nets me eleven tokens. * * * 1. Potter-Pirbright (1986) IV-A-3-c-iii ¶2-b 2. Bassett (2017) V-C-18-g-iv ¶7-d 3. Braythwayt (1957) I-A-1-a-i-α ¶1-a 4. Crye (1973) III-C-3-a-iii ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/359 "2025-08-05T13:32:23Z")
Couldn’t have put that more clearly myself. Appreciated. **Goldhawk Road** ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/360 "2025-08-05T14:41:05Z")
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