Mornington Crescent
Mornington Crescent is a radio show/game show played by Geoff Brown, Brian Camozzi, and Brian Lowe on Tuesday at 11:00 Post-Meridian Central U.S./ Mexico D.F. Time on WVKC. All other information is for novices only.
Novices[edit]
The Basics[edit]
Mornington Crescent (MC) is a game popularized by the early 1970's BBC television show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue". It involves moving from stop to stop along the London Underground with a goal of reaching the Mornington Crescent tube stop. There are an endless myriad of rules, regulations, and acceptable moves. To make a compendium would be impossible, instead the rules are updated yearly (and sometimes more often should the need arrive) by scholars of the game at MC Conventions. Like the British Constitution rulebooks are illusory and their use is looked down upon by veteran players.
Some Popular Moves[edit]
There are a seemingly infinite number of potential moves, but some are more popular than others, especially considering that Knox Mornington Crescent players have traditionally adhered to the Stansberger Doctrines in maintaining the standard cosine-neutral recursive algorithms for all on-campus play. In any type B or C games the following moves are likely, as these are designed to be introductory games (However, like chess a certain combination of preceding moves is necessary to enable these moves);
- Dollis Hill Loop- A move which requires that every other move made by players following the enactment of a Dollis Hill Loop is back to Dollis Hill.
- Bank Holiday- A player can move to Bank and suspend token circulation and some suburban purchasing rights.
- Arsenal- A seemingly ill-designed move created by an unknown pot-smoking Galesburg caller, he holed himself up in Arsenal with a terrorist militia, thereby blocking off the entire Piccadilly (blue) Line for turns. An excellent annoyance tactic, the move turned out to be fairly suicidal, as the token strain proves too much. This fact aside, the move is often done as a sort of toast to our garage-smoking friend. This tactic is commonly called "Arseholing oneself".
- Mornington Crescent- This move wins the game.
Examples of Games[edit]
A game in progress: Mornington Crescent
A game in progress using the campus as the board. Knox MC
Links[edit]
The Knox College Mornington Crescent Society's Facebook Group
A map (Note: for novices ONLY!)
