# Mornington Crescent-Brit Dopers, help a Yank? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015 "2003-08-13T21:49:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/1 "2003-08-13T21:49:16Z")
I’m wanting a map of the Underground stations-preferably a BIG map. Can anyone help me out? I’ll pay for the postage. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/2 "2003-08-13T23:20:37Z")
The official online maps are [here](http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/tubemap/). You can buy a poster (35" x 25") [urk=“[http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?cmd=product&product\_id=164&page=12&customer\_IDGF092AAA241860137161](http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?cmd=product&product_id=164&page=12&customer_IDGF092AAA241860137161)”]here. Looks like it’ll around $15 including postage. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/3 "2003-08-13T23:21:53Z")
You can buy a poster (35" x 25") [here](http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?cmd=product&product_id=164&page=12&customer_IDGF092AAA241860137161). Looks like it’ll around $15 including postage. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/4 "2003-08-13T23:31:51Z")
It won’t do you any good, however. It’s taken me seven years to even scratch the surface of **Mornington Crescent** , and I’ve yet to win definitively in even friendly play. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/5 "2003-08-13T23:35:52Z")
Yair, get the **snerk** _official_ map if you think it will help. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/6 "2003-08-13T23:38:33Z")
For reasons of national security, the \*real[/] map cannot be exported to the colonies. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/7 "2003-08-13T23:42:56Z")
For reasons of national security, the _real_ map cannot be exported to the colonies. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/8 "2003-08-13T23:47:06Z")
I used to own a copy of a board game called _The London Game_, I imagine it was a spin off from Mornigton crescent, anyway it’s board was a map of the London underground and it included playing pieces that you were meant to move from station to station. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/9 "2003-08-13T23:48:47Z")
Here’s a link to a page on the game, it looks like it’s still in print: [http://www.tragsnart.co.uk/gamehub/reviews/londongame.htm](http://www.tragsnart.co.uk/gamehub/reviews/londongame.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/10 "2003-08-14T00:03:02Z")
**Mornington Crescent: The Board Game**. \ Trust me – they ain’t getting all _those_ rules on the back of the box lid… ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/11 "2003-08-14T00:15:43Z")
Oh, believe you me, there’s no doubt in my mind the “official” map will be of little use, but at least I’ll have an idea of some authentic station names. Thanks, **TD** for the link. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/12 "2003-08-14T13:45:06Z")
**Flypsyde** , if you do a google image search for “tube map” you’ll get plenty of maps from which to draw tube names. Feel free to buy the poster though - its a work of art in itself 🙂 and **jr8** , they did actually produce a PC Game of Mornignton Crescent back in the mid-nineties somewhere, the manual was on a cd-rom and the in game tutorial was _huge_. If i can find my copy i’ll scan the cover in and send a pic to you if you want? ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/13 "2003-08-14T17:36:54Z")
Would that be the the colonies 1776 amendments you wanted ? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/14 "2003-08-14T18:18:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MC Master of Ceremonies \* > \*\*I used to own a copy of a board game called _The London Game_, I imagine it was a spin off from Mornigton crescent, anyway it’s board was a map of the London underground and it included playing pieces that you were meant to move from station to station. \*\* There’s also [Scotland Yard](http://www.ravensburger.com/rag/com/usa/produkte/db/spiele.html?26117). A [PC version](http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,1855/) had been available but it’s gone out of print. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-brit-dopers-help-a-yank/195015/15 "2003-08-15T11:31:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*and **jr8** , they did actually produce a PC Game of Mornignton Crescent back in the mid-nineties somewhere, the manual was on a cd-rom and the in game tutorial was _huge_. > > If i can find my copy i’ll scan the cover in and send a pic to you if you want? \*\* Egads. I can’t even begin to conceive of what that must have been like. But I’ll take your word for it. Actually, this is one of those things which will probably be considered a valuable antique in the future, like the Broderbund Hitchhiker game (which I have stashed somewhere – “You are in a maze of twisty synapses, all alike.”)