For those of you who know how to play I was wondering if you’d like to join me in a game of Mornington Crescent. All players welcome. I’m going to suggest we use the English rules with no diagonals.
Okay I’ll go first:
Charring Cross Road!
Mornington Crescent is a parody game that features in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. The game, whose rules are never explained, satirises complicated strategy games, particularly the abstruse jargon involved in such games as contract bridge or chess.
A game consisted of each player in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system; the winner was the first player to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern Line.
The game's central joke was that while its rules were invoked and argued on the show, they were never explained.