# No Mornington Crescent yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 21, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569 "2008-02-21T15:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/61 "2008-02-22T13:02:34Z")
You like that move? I must admit I wasn’t expecting that use of the Central Line Defence - it’s normally employed by people who’ve ended up at Bank through careless misreadings of the Northern Line Policy. They tend to assume it applies to the Bank Branch, but we know that all serious discussions on the subject have concluded that the Charing Cross Branch is the only way that the NLP allows when attempting to evade a pincer move on the crossover stations. Well, more fool them! **Clapham North** ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/62 "2008-02-22T13:51:11Z")
A quick hop to **Vauxhall** brings the opportunity for Lyttleton’s Trumpet. Pay heed all those going clockwise with less than three tokens! ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/63 "2008-02-22T14:30:05Z")
Well, since Open Tourney is in effect now and thanks to **GorillaMan** ’s Zone 6 voidance (and yes, I am being sarcastic), I think the preferred play according to _Hoyle_ is to go halfsies on tokens, forcing North Line to a Victoria switchover, unvoiding Zone 6, switching anti-clockwise back to clockwise, leaving me with a half score, but extending the game back into the middle. So obviously - **Elephant & Castle**. BritRail N/A by the by now. You can thank me later. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/64 "2008-02-22T14:36:10Z")
Professor Plum, with the candlestick, in the kitchen. Which places me at **Putney Bridge**. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/65 "2008-02-22T14:42:36Z")
Oooo, a cheeky move sir. But I think you’ve overlooked the reversal inherent in a well-timed **Canada Water**. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/66 "2008-02-22T14:58:51Z")
Have you all forgotten that it is 2008? Wellesby’s Standard Forced has been superceded by Harrington’s Upper Twelfth Rules of International Play as defined by the International Convention on the Humane Treatment of Electronic Mice, and because it is Friday exotransactional reorientations are permitted only for the Wightman axioms, therefore causal closure results in regressive geodetic precession. As I possess the Runcible Spoon I can galumph through orthogonal objective frames and redefine the metacentric parameter for the Hilbert transform, and thus select any waypoint in a non-adjacent zone. Q.E.D. **Piccadilly Circus**. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/67 "2008-02-22T16:55:51Z")
**Stranger** Isn’t it possible that causal closure and geodetic precession may actually leave you with a superposition of **Piccadilly Circus** _and_ **Leicester Square**? A tough move to follow. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/68 "2008-02-22T17:07:26Z")
Granted, it was tough, but I think you’ll agree that the solution of **Ealing Broadway** is beautiful in its simplicity. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/69 "2008-02-22T17:22:04Z")
[QUOTE=G. Odoreida] Granted, it was tough, but I think you’ll agree that the solution of **Ealing Broadway** is beautiful in its simplicity. [/QUOTE] Getting back at me because I took advantage of that double score are you? I was hoping to use the Wallington exception, but of course you thought of that and it doesn’t apply here. So it seems I’m stuck with **Kilburn Park**. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/70 "2008-02-22T17:39:01Z")
Which lets me play **Gospel Oak** with a straight face. A common move, you say? Look again. A Zone 2 **Leyton Midland** Overplay and we’re into a whole new world. Last time that happened (Sommersby Invitational, Dubbo, NSW 1937) no less than **3** Grand Masters resigned in disgust and bafflement. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/71 "2008-02-22T17:56:53Z")
**Goodge Street** , and with the current signal failure at Lambeth North, I think I can declare Babbington’s. Let’s see where that takes us. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/72 "2008-02-22T17:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=Small Clanger] **Stranger** Isn’t it possible that causal closure and geodetic precession may actually leave you with a superposition of **Piccadilly Circus** _and_ **Leicester Square**? A tough move to follow. [/QUOTE] While I don’t mean to be a rules lawyer, let me point out that per _The Wigner Errata_, Article XIII, Section 729(d), Paragraph 5, read as follows: Conditional Parameters for the Consideration of States of Simultaneous Superposition to the 2-D Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation: \*States of superposition of solutions to the of the 2-D time-independent Schrödinger equations as pertaining to the geodetic precessional translocation may only exist under the following conditional parameters: [indent]i. Under the supervision of supracongnitive metaphantastical luminescent entities, ii. Within the scope of a self-regulating bi-critical polarized electro-gravitational field, iii. Exclusive to diamagnetic monopolar nucleotide sequences in the Yang-Mills family, and iv. As explicitly permitted by the Resident Game Administrator Emeritus[/indent]\* Since the RGAE has been a defunct and exclusively ceremonial position since the quasi-retirement and subsequence bodily ascendance of His Most Respectful Holiness and Righteous Caeserite Gavonitus Tiberius Dionecian of Ur-Constantinople, and because no actual evidence or accepted interpretation of i and iii exist (and not even a comprehensive gathering of living and mediumed Nobel laureates can figure out what clause ii means), the entire paragraph, and thus the issue collapses into a single, identifiable state upon interaction, giving rise to critical angles of affect that provide the forementioned causal closure. I think that you’ll agree, upon examination, that while this is a trivial solution to general set of Minkowski sets, it is applicable to all intersections involving the domain of the London Underground. I hope this clears up all outstanding concerns regarding the issue of superposition. Further reading can be found in “On the topic of self-reducible formulations to the generalized de Broglie solution of the Schrodinger equation”, _The European Journal of Neutronic Chemistry_, volume V, issue 3. If you can’t read High Magyar, Douglas Hofstadter summarized it nicely in in his _Metamagical Themas_ column in the August 1982 issue of _Scientific American_. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/73 "2008-02-22T18:15:35Z")
A concise and easily followed explanation of one of the trickier points of the game there, **Stranger**. For a deeper explanation of these concepts (whilst still remaining accessible to the intermediate level player) might I also suggest Hemmingway, Otheringforth & Smythe’s _On Temporal Variances in a Layered Multiphasic Transit Hybrid (variations on the Circle Line)_ (1978) - Sadly out of print, but any good secondhand book merchant should be able to furnish you with a copy. On with the game! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/74 "2008-02-22T18:44:56Z")
In the light of **Stranger On A Train** ’s learned explanation, I give: Schrödinger’s **Catford** (I think that has sufficient quantum existence for this point in the game) ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/75 "2008-02-22T19:06:11Z")
\*\*Well played **Giles**. Let me be the first to capitalize on the Withersby Variant opened up by playing **Mile End** followed by a double placement (expending 2 tokens) to transfer orthogonally to **Alperton**. No doubt a player of your ability can see the potential, hmmm? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/76 "2008-02-22T19:14:42Z")
[QUOTE=Wargamer] \*\*Well played **Giles**. Let me be the first to capitalize on the Withersby Variant opened up by playing **Mile End** followed by a double placement (expending 2 tokens) to transfer orthogonally to **Alperton**. No doubt a player of your ability can see the potential, hmmm? [/QUOTE] It is of course blindingly obvious what you’re attempting here. However, subject to rule 42, paragraph 3, subsection b11 in the seminal work, Crossplay Adjuncts and Exposition On the Socialogical Habits of Ferrets, Addendum 4 (and in accordance with the ruling of the Northeastern division judges panel in '74) I will sidestep the play you clearly want and go to **Swiss Cottage**. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/77 "2008-02-22T19:28:22Z")
Curses. That slipperiness might have cost me, but I will rescue the situation with **Harrow-on-the-Hill**. Of course, that play opens up a veritable can of worms, but it had to be done, lest the game end in 3 moves. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/78 "2008-02-22T19:30:26Z")
[QUOTE=Wargamer] Curses. That slipperiness might have cost me, but I will rescue the situation with **Harrow-on-the-Hill**. Of course, that play opens up a veritable can of worms, but it had to be done, lest the game end in 3 moves. [/QUOTE] Excellent choice, I see you’ve read addendum 4. Most people never get past 2. Good show. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/79 "2008-02-22T19:56:53Z")
Thank you. One tries. I hope whoever plays next has studied their Capabarro. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/80 "2008-02-22T20:03:57Z")
Naturally… but I find that Thibault cancels out Capabarro. Don’t you? **Brondesbury** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569.md?page=5)