# 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:** 19
**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 5, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/361 "2025-08-05T15:13:59Z")
I am aware that engineering works are essential, but boy do I hate bus replacement service! **North Greenwich** ’s connection to the cable car (Dangleway in the local vernacular) should be exempt of those inconveniences, I hope! I gladly pay three blue tokens to avoid waiting and I look forward to setting foot on the ground again in Royal Victoria in a couple of minutes (not yet bolded for obvious reasons). ---
**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, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/362 "2025-08-05T15:21:34Z")
At long last… **Becontree!** I believe that’s in zone 5. I am calling for an official Accounting. Therefore, all players will count their tokens. Those players currently in possession of more than 10 tokens will surrender all tokens (looking at you, **Maus** ) to the kitty where they will be evenly distributed (in preference of alphabetical order) to all players. ---
**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 5, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/363 "2025-08-05T15:28:10Z")
Well those were three tokens well and timely spent! He said descending from the cable car at **Royal Victoria.** Remaining: five blue token and four red token. And an Oyster Card with plenty of credit. ---
**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 5, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/364 "2025-08-05T15:53:40Z")
As with Wordle, I always play MC in hard mode, so I don’t use tokens. **Shepherd’s Bush Market** ---
**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 6, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/365 "2025-08-06T11:26:24Z")
Mr@Cardigan, Sir. A quiet word in your shell-like. You have with forethought and malcontent committed several acts of war in your play to date and further instances will foment retributions which will cause you the upmost damned astonishment. To boot Accounting! Accounting, Sir! **Bloody Accounting?** A personal inventory of five red, five blue and five gold tokens. Collected with care and method, legally and in the absolute best of good faith. Squirrelled away judiciously to avoid the deprivations of Nid and baulk. Prudent. Cautious. Non-threatening. And then you make the call Accounting! And make no bones about, in whose vested interest was this darstedly devious, nea reprobate move of primary benefit? Who, at the pointy end of the alphabet? Name starts with “C”? May they burn a hole through your prized cashmere raglan overcoat. @Mollie_Magill, old bean … please take a vice-like hold of his noggin while I kick his arse. Bugger. Let’s get myself to **Gunnersbury** where I can sulk in peace. ---
**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 6, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/366 "2025-08-06T12:22:23Z")
Surely you meant to **Turnham Green?** ---
**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 6, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/367 "2025-08-06T14:24:04Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Mr@Cardigan, Sir. A quiet word in your shell-like. > > You have with forethought and malcontent committed several acts of war in your play to date and further instances will foment retributions which will cause you the upmost damned astonishment. To boot Accounting! Accounting, Sir! **Bloody Accounting?** > > A personal inventory of five red, five blue and five gold tokens. Collected with care and method, legally and in the absolute best of good faith. Squirrelled away judiciously to avoid the deprivations of Nid and baulk. Prudent. Cautious. Non-threatening. And then you make the call Accounting! _Thank you!_ I was wonder whether I was the only one who noticed. I guess long gone are the halcyon days of friendly competition. Had I known this round would be this cutthroat, I would have come out swinging, but I was trying to go easy on the newer players. Accounting, sir? _Accounting???_ Let’s give account then, @Cardigan . I have: - Four red tokens taken by my opener at Stoke Newington, two of which were revoked in the next turn. - One blue token from my next move to Marylebone, which you nearly took with your move to Burnt Oak. - Two greens with my move to Maze Hill - Another two blues with my move to Limehouse that were transferred to @pjd. - I scored three gold tokens when I move to Euston, of which you took two in your next turn. - I took back all my tokens from you when you “misplayed” either Harrow & Wealdstone or Harrow-on-Hill, by the way you never did differentiate which station you had intended. - I picked up two lavender tokens at Tooting Broadway. - Another four lavender were picked up at Finchley Road & Frognal. - I lost all my lavenders and golds to @penultima_thule with their move to Rectory Road. - Finally, I picked up eleven white tokens at Charing Cross. Can you provide a similar account? Perhaps a live weasel would help? **Shepard’s Bush Market** ---
**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 6, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/368 "2025-08-06T14:49:57Z")
Watching how high the tempers rise the moment has come to lie low, thus: **Totteridge & Whetstone** This is turning out to be quite virulent for a friendly, wonder where the malcontent comes from. And I am not just thinking of spell checkers allegedly malfunctioning and similar excuses. Next, I fear, somebody is going to threaten to report this game to the Haughtington Rules & Sanctions Commission for unsportmanlike behaviour! Backstabbing is in the air. ---
**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 6, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/369 "2025-08-06T15:24:07Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > wonder where the malcontent comes from Well, since the previous game, the fat orange bellend happened. Just sayin’. **Brondesbury Park** ---
**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 6, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/370 "2025-08-06T15:39:45Z")
Before anyone demands satisfaction, let me remind players that ALL of my tokens were surrendered to _you_ after that minor kerfuffle concerning Harrow. Since that play I have collected a paltry _single_ token (and not the two some have alleged) at Arsenal. Should this explanation not suffice, It seems the next step would be selection of our respective seconds. Oh, and um, since it’s Wednesday and Brondesbury Park begins with a ‘B’ I call **Brixton.** ---
**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 6, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/371 "2025-08-06T16:12:25Z")
Then I jump to **[Chorleywood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process)** to check [once more](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/237) whether British bread is improving in yet another victory of hope over experience. Activating rounders. ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/372 "2025-08-07T03:42:55Z")
Rounder, eh! Nope, not playing that malarkey whilst in a prevailing foul mood. The desolation of **East Finchley** will needs suffice. ---
**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 7, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/373 "2025-08-07T12:17:44Z")
Here we are on the Northern line and I have no better move available to me at the moment but **Angel.** ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/374 "2025-08-07T13:32:13Z")
Be a shame to spend any of that shedload of tokens ya got burning a hole in your pocket, no? Let’s get just a bit further from temptation. **Caledonian Road & Barnsbury** ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/375 "2025-08-07T13:33:58Z")
Since this is a friendly and both Accounting and Rounders have been activated, I believe new players are allowed to join (at least, according to Carpp’s Standard Interpretation), so I’d love to jump on at **Hackney Wick**. ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/376 "2025-08-07T13:39:26Z")
Did I hear temptation? That brings me to **Leicester Square**. ---
**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 7, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/377 "2025-08-07T17:20:25Z")
Plodding right along…. **Holborn.** I don’t know if anyone else has had a bowel movement in the past 60 minutes, but I haven’t. And the current monarch, King Charles III, has definitely been on the throne for less than 36 months. Therefore all the conditions are met Under Section VI (A)(iii) of the Camden Accord, to close rounders. I will take my two gold tokens as well. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/378 "2025-08-07T18:08:50Z")
I’m still new, but I’ve been reading up on some classic International matches (Burberry Invitational in ‘73 and the infamous Turin Open of ‘86, to name just two). Heidegger’s play in the latter is particularly inspiring, so since the Central Line is back in play, I’m going to take a risk and try for the **Leytonstone** loop. If I’m not mistaken, with rounders now closed, this move invokes Quarters. ---
**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 7, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/379 "2025-08-07T18:33:27Z")
**Fairlop.** Has to be (early closing on Thursdays). ---
**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 7, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/380 "2025-08-07T22:27:32Z")
Possibly a peregrination along the Sufferagette Line might allow ones gaping psychological wounds some respite and even maybe providence so to get back into this game. _grumble, blast, tokens, treachery, bowel movements, Accounting, voodoo pins, bugger and damnation. Ticked. Honked. Pissed. Vexed. Irked. Riled._ **Therapia Lane** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179.md?page=20)