# Mornington Crescent

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**Created:** [November 29, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294 "2018-11-29T19:50:05Z")\
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**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 3, 2018, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent/825294/23 "2018-12-03T06:21:47Z")

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I’m not sure why South Harrow has stumped players. I realize there are some time-of-day interactions, but my understanding is that SDMB games have used Greenwich Mean Time exclusively ever since **Dead Cat** lulled North Americans into a false sense of security and pulled off that brilliant McGoohan’s Convergence several years ago.

> [@Mornington Crescent question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-question/554794/454):
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> I’m trying to swallow my ire and pretend it’s just good sportsmanship I feel.
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> I concede the win.
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> But I must say that this is why Internet-hosted games are regarded as a poor-man’s substitute, and why you find so few Internet resources for the game. Has it ever occurred to you, for example, to wonder why we don’t have a web-based move calculator? Why we don’t have Thornton’s, or MC Quarterly, or, hell, even Renaldi’s on line?
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> In a live game, the timing issue that **Dead Cat** used you pull off a concededly brilliant McGoohan’s Convergence would have been obvious to all. There would have been a large clock on the wall, and perhaps even an obvious wait or giveaway glance to inform the competitors of the significance of the hour and minute being equal. **Most especially, we would have had all competitors be equally able to assess that because all would have been in the same time zone.**
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> I don’t fault **Dead Cat** – to the contrary, had I thought of it, I would have played it myself, perhaps starting my setup when Edgware Road and the straddle were played. **But I think I’d ask for an agreement, in a future Internet game, that all agree to a single effective time zone for the play.**  
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> Whacking good play, **DC**. My bitterness will last only a little longer, I promise. 🙂

With GMT agreed and yellow tokens accumulating as the clock clicks, I don’t know why players are reluctant to take a small profit and move on the Picadilly line. Are we playing ‘Chicken’? Or ‘Blind Man’s Bluff’?

I’d grab the yellow tokens myself, but I have another gambit in mind. 😛_Please_, somebody, move to the station I’m thinking of!

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