# Mornington Crescent **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 29, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294 "2018-11-29T19:50:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/81 "2018-12-08T09:16:31Z")
That last play is making me very dizzy. I’m getting on at Goodge, closing my eyes, and taking the long relaxing ride to **Morden**. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/82 "2018-12-08T09:16:44Z")
In that case… **Mornington Crescent.** ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/83 "2018-12-08T10:01:53Z")
Ouch! I apologize to one and all. I can’t remember when I last played so badly; by the end I was just sleep-walking. :o ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/84 "2018-12-08T10:14:58Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Ouch! I apologize to one and all. I can’t remember when I last played so badly; by the end I was just sleep-walking. :o Don’t feel bad, old sauce. Viscount Mumphred’s Errata can boggle even the sharpest of players. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/85 "2018-12-08T10:15:02Z")
Well played Smapti. Bravo! Can somebody be secretary and write that narrative up for the next International Convention? A couple of rough edges but that’s too be expected with such inventive play. The Greater Covenant should be made aware. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/86 "2018-12-08T13:02:54Z")
Well done, **Smapti**. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Darkon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Darkon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/87 "2018-12-10T21:11:15Z")
Sorry, Itpams, but you can not play Mornington Crescent if you cross the Mordock Meridian before 0417 and are now in Niff. Check your Humboldt’s Revised and Annotated Rules for Beginners if you don’t believe me. Your faux pas allows me to arrive at Piccadilly, no, **Oxford Circus** just in time for the elephant parade. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/88 "2018-12-11T09:32:41Z")
Omigosh. _Another_ bifurcation. :eek: I tore up all my green tokens when I thought the game was over so am now back in the Knibf. That’s my fourth trip already this game (if we count all three branches). At Bedlam we play that when a player is sent to Nidd for the seventh time in a game he can advance directly to the M.C. instead. Are we playing that rule here? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/89 "2018-12-11T12:03:59Z")
Unfortunately, I’ve already absconded with the Mace of the House of Commons, so the matter is settled, and no further appeals may be heard until I’ve politely agreed to put it back where it goes. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/90 "2018-12-11T12:10:04Z")
One thing that was clear from the controversy at the Istanbul World Tourney of 1978, humorously referred to as the _Inauspicious Incident_, is that once all the players have turned in their jaywalking cards and toted their zocktallies, the final results cannot be reversed, even though a careful analysis of the cards after the fact revealed that the second-place player could have used the King’s Cross Strike to block the winner. ---
**Author:** ![Darkon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Darkon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkon)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/91 "2018-12-12T23:14:12Z")
Okay, I just heard back from the Romulan High Council and Smapti did indeed win (grumble, grumble). I guess you get to keep the damned Mace. Anywho, I promise to not be such a bad sport this game— **Bermondsey**. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/92 "2018-12-13T00:20:26Z")
I think this game should have a moderator to decide the issues that arise as there seems to be much controversy over which are the rules that apply. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/93 "2018-12-14T15:31:25Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > I think this game should have a moderator to decide the issues that arise as there seems to be much controversy over which are the rules that apply. Having a presiding ‘moderator’ sounds like it could be quite fun. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/94 "2019-08-28T20:12:31Z")
Bumped. The \*NYT \*on Boris Johnson, Brexit and Mornington Crescent: [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/opinion/suspend-parliament-boris-johnson.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Thomas%20B.%20Edsall](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/opinion/suspend-parliament-boris-johnson.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Thomas%20B.%20Edsall) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294.md?page=4)