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Mornington Crescent - So What Are The Rules Then?
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been doing cryptic puzzles for years and I still can't work this out
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Mornington Crescent is an improvisational game featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, a series which satirises complicated panel games.[1]
The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The apparent aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern Line.[1] Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using. Despite appearances, however, there are no rules to the game,[2] and both the naming of stations and the specification of "rules" are based on stream-of-consciousness association and improvisation.[3] Thus the game is intentionally incomprehensible
The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The apparent aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern Line.[1] Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using. Despite appearances, however, there are no rules to the game,[2] and both the naming of stations and the specification of "rules" are based on stream-of-consciousness association and improvisation.[3] Thus the game is intentionally incomprehensible
Have long suspected, given the age of Humphrey Littleton and the long presence of Barry Cryer, a veteran of variety theatre, that Mornington Crescent was chosen because of this, from the song "The Night I Appeared as Macbeth" : I acted so tragic, the house rose like magic
The audience yelled "You're sublime!"
They made me a present of Mornington Crescent:
They threw it a brick at a time"
[W.F . Hargreaves, 1922]
The audience yelled "You're sublime!"
They made me a present of Mornington Crescent:
They threw it a brick at a time"
[W.F . Hargreaves, 1922]
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