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	Dvorak Card Game - The Mornington Crescent II Deck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A different interpretation of Mornington Crescent, this one having an actual board - a Tube map - and counters which are moved around on it.
		Mornington Crescent is considered to be Blocked until a card is played to unblock it.
		The rules of regular Mornington Crescent can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/verdrahciretop/mc1.html This Deck version is helpful as a travel game (eg for playing on trains and vacations), but it really doesn't compare with the original game, and would require many more cards to be anything like the traditional board game.
	www.dvorakgame.co.uk /cardlist.cgi?mornington2 (1110 words)

	Directory - Games: Video Games: Recreation: Browser Based: Board Games: Mornington Crescent
		Orange Mornington Crescent · cached · Dunx presents a history of MC on the web, and photographic records of pilgrimages to the tube station.
		Mornington Crescent · cached · Outlines the history of the game, and has a game simulation applet with a scaled-down version of the London Underground.
		Mornington Crescent - The Last of the Truly Great Games · An article on the history of the game with a brief outline of its rules.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=480804 (367 words)

	Mornington Crescent Illustrated with Expert Play
		Mornington Crescent is limited only by one's creativity and imagination, and it is herein that the game has such appeal.
		Mornington Crescent enthusiasts are united in their conviction that this game is unmatched by any other classic strategy game, and affords a life-time of enjoyment for any serious player.
		Although Mornington Crescent is traditionally a male-dominated sport, the latter part of the twentieth century saw the emergence of some excellent female players, especially from the United Kingdom.
	www.geocities.com /verdrahciretop/mc1.html (2406 words)

	Mornington Crescent - Reviews
		Mornington Crescent was the debut Album from My Life Story.
		Originally due for release on January 30th 1995 it was delayed due to London Underground objecting to the cover artwork and was eventually released on the 6th February 1995.
		And 'Mornington Crescent' - a posh sounding dump on the edge of Camden, a closed down tube station, a Radio 4 game no-one understands, and the place where Jake hatched the plot while leafleting for the Camden Palace venue - is a magnificent failure of a debut album.
	www.twelvereasonswhy.co.uk /music/mlsrmc.html (600 words)

	Mornington Crescent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mornington Crescent is a strategy game played on the London Underground map, the aim being to move to Mornington Crescent.
		Having pointed out these truths about Mornington Crescent, you will I am sure understand me when I say that I cannot explain the Game - steeped in theory though it is, you must play MC to understand it.
		Mornington Nomic - an ongoing effort to construct an alternate ruleset for Mornington Crescent using Nomic mechanics as a framework
	www.dunx.org /mc (261 words)

	Mornington Crescent Game
		Before you play Mornington Crescent it is assumed that because it was Monday yesterday you will know that the short rules only apply and from the 2nd turn in reverse order during October.
		Mornington Crescent is a game for all ages but to really appreciate the nuances and some areas of complex game play, adult guidance may be necessary.
		Mornington Crescent game play is for those beyond Primary school age only.
	metta.org.uk /light/crescent (207 words)

	Mornington Crescent - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mornington Crescent is a game which is named after a tube station on the London Underground.
		There are no rules to Mornington Crescent, but this has not always been the case.
		Mornington Crescent was banned in France during much of 1962 by General Charles De Gaulle to suppress rioting.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Mornington_Crescent (355 words)

	Mornington Crescent Page
		The game of Mornington Crescent was invented in the late nineteenth century by the drivers of Hackney carriages as a serious attempt to design a one-way system around the increasingly busy area of Euston in London.
		Fraser McFurtive (37) managed to include Mornington Crescent in a journey between Drumsheugh Gardens and Milton Road West (both in Edinburgh), on the excuse that he was avoiding congestion in Princes Street (without mentioning that there is also a Princes Street in London).
		Beginners will discover that Mornington Crescent is a little like golf, a little like shove-ha'penny, quite a lot like watching your laundry in the tumble-drier, and most closely resembles feeling around in the dark for a pocketful of loose change dropped in an unlit, damp alleyway on a Saturday night after a few beers.
	www.amazonsystems.co.uk /data/morn.htm (823 words)

	Mornington Crescent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		No, it is perhaps the cunning simplicity of Mornington Crescent's rules that have led to such confrontation, merely because as simple as they are they leave much open to interpretation.
		Mornington Crescent is perhaps the game that best fits the well-used advertising phrase `A game that is simple to learn but takes years to master'.
		A game of Mornington Crescent is all about style, first and foremost, not technicalities.
	www.galactic-guide.com /articles/6S8.html (438 words)

	Mornington Crescent Rules
		This was the inspiration for Mornington Crescent and may, consciously or not, have influenced the naming of the programme.
		I've never seen Stovold's Mornington Crescent Rules and Origins but a friend who has has told me it is a very long book for the same reason books about chess are very long: Strategy.
		We have played Mornington Crescent but you know the rules are not so precise and this is difficult for us in Germany.
	www.mornington-crescent-rule.fsnet.co.uk /mornington-crescent-rules.htm (2767 words)

	Mornington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mornington is the name of many places in Australia.
		Mornington Crescent, a London subway station and the name of a game
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mornington (86 words)

	Mornington Crescent
		The London Underground (LU) Mornington Crescent is one of its most famous stations, built in 1907 and located on the Northern line (Charing Cross branch), between the Euston and Camden Town stations.
		Unfortunately, the LU Mornington Crescent station had to be closed down for six years in the 1990's because its passenger lifts were beyond repair.
		The reason why the LU Mornington Crescent station is so amazingly popular is that it shares its name with the truly mind-boggling intellectual game called 'Mornington Crescent'.
	www.jwelford.demon.co.uk /brainwaremap/morncrt.html (506 words)

	Encyclopaedia Morningtonia: Mornington Crescent, A Short History Of
		Mornington Crescent is the fourth most popular parlour game in the UK after:
		Mornington Crescent was first brought to Britain with the Romans where it masqueraded under the name of Manidoleum Lunatus.
		Richard III Act 3 Scene 4: "the Marques of Dorset is head to Richmond" This move locked off the Circle Line and put the King in a self reversing spoon.
	kevan.org /morningtonia.pl?Mornington_Crescent,_A_Short_History_Of (578 words)

	Mornington Crescent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first fruits of this is Mornington Crescent in Outer Space, but a distributed MC server is being constructed also.
		There was a recent seismic event within the Mornington Crescent community as the Great Place itself reopened after six years of closure.
		And I truly was fascinated by the weird game called Mornington Crescent played by the panellists - I spent literally minutes trying to work out the token progressions, desperately seeking some sense in the straddling ratios other paraphernalia of the hardened player.
	www.lazarus.demon.co.uk /mc/mc.html (917 words)

	Dvorak Card Game - The Mornington Crescent Deck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You may play Mornington Crescent if your current Station is not a Terminus.
		While this card is visible, any player - whose turn it is not - may say "Finchley Central" and have the right to play Mornington Crescent when it is next their turn.
		The Mornington Crescent deck remains the intellectual property of Kevan and Raven -
	www.dvorakgame.co.uk /cardlist.cgi?mornington (908 words)

	Sproutlore - The Mornington Crescent to Brentford Charabang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This year is no different, and we thought it about time we paid a visit to one of the most mystical venues from Robert’s books Mornington Crescent Underground Station.
		The plan is we are going to meet at 12 o’clock at Mornington Crescent Underground Station.
		Mornington Crescent shouldn’t be hard to get to (it’s on the Northern Line of the London Underground if you have any trouble).
	www.sproutlore.com /events/charabang.php (627 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Little Book of Mornington Crescent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mornington Crescent is a game which has baffled fans of the Radio 4 show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue for years.
		Among their frequently asked questions are "What are the rules of Mornington Crescent?", "Does Mornington Crescent have rules, and if so what are they?" and "Mornington Crescent: rules, please?".
		There are detailed discussions of key games and potted biographies of some of Mornington Crescent's most celebrated players, ranging from Mother Anna of Widdicombe to Lord Nelson.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752818643 (797 words)

	Daniel Berry - Re: Mornington Crescent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	www.comicboards.com /psiphiboards/notstartrek/view.php?rpl=040928142905 (236 words)

	Stuff and Blah...
		Robert Rankin, author of a work he describes as 'far fetched fiction' was influenced by Mornington Crescent's temporary closure in 1996.
		Mornington Crescent is christened the Ministry of Serendipity.
		Fans from as far afield as Jersey, Germany and Ireland and the eminent author himself, were treated to a guided tour of Mornington Crescent by Group Station Manager, Jeff Mills.
	www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=35003&messageid=996849495 (247 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Mornington Crescent - the legend is reborn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of London's most famous Underground stations has finally re-opened after a mammoth refit which has turned it into a "ghost station" for nearly six years.
		Northern Line trains have trundled through Mornington Crescent station without stopping.
		"Mornington Crescent" - the game - is considered by its fans to be one of the world's most complex pastimes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/79273.stm (419 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: THE LITTLE BOOK OF MORNINGTON CRESCENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mornington Crescent is a game whose rules and history are shrouded in myth and legend.
		By far the most cheer-eliciting segment of ISIHAC is "Mornington Crescent," a round-table game in which the panelists must name London Underground stations, and the first to name Mornington Crescent is the winner.
		If you're a fan of BBC radio comedy and you're in on the joke, this book is a must have, with Mornington Crescent history, QandAs, recipes, profiles, short stories (Charles Dickens versus Lewis Carroll in an especially ruthless and deadly game of MC)--everything a serious player of the game needs to know.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0752818643?v=glance (788 words)

	Silently Sparkling - Reviews Mornington Crescent Companion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By avoiding the elaboration and embellishment, we strip the songs down to their bare bones, leaving essential themes intact, like favourite old characters behaving in exciting new ways.
		Three Tunes from the 'Mornington Crescent' LP in "piano quintet" arrangement ie, Jake 'The Flake' Shillingford quivering his tonsils over a grand piano and some strings played by persons pretending to blub into their cravats, no doubt.
		It is, he says, "the Sunday morning to Mornington Crescent's Saturday night" but is nonetheless free of goths hailing an ambulance on a Camden pavement.
	www.twelvereasonswhy.co.uk /music/mlsrmcc.html (474 words)

	Lorem Ipsum: Mornington Crescent
		I could’ve sworn that I’d written about the classic game of Mornington Crescent at some point, perhaps in a column, but it appears that I never did.
		You can also learn more about the variants and terminology from the York Encyclopaedia Morningtonia, which is rather reminiscent in some ways of a game of Lexicon.
		Whoever moves to Mornington Crescent first really does win; hence the traditional short game usually played to launch (and test) a new MC server.
	www.kith.org /journals/jed/2004/11/28/2455.html (367 words)

	Mornington Crescent Card Games
		Two years ago, Mornington Nomic explored murkier waters by attempting to create a completely fresh ruleset for the game; a ruleset which allowed Mornington Crescent to be played over the Internet, under a relatively concise and - more importantly - freely available ruleset.
		This page, and its associated mailing list, attempts to address the gap, producing a concise Mornington Crescent ruleset that lends itself entirely to real-life gaming.
		It's been generally decided that a card game is the best way to capture the style of MC's endless rules without actually having a book of endless rules; this page serves as a repository for any documents and sketchy rulesets which have been written on the subject.
	www.stormloader.com /kevan/mccg (350 words)

	Emery : Mornington Crescent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		My mother called this morning to, one: expound on the fantastic new tofu yogurt she's found and two: remind me that today is the 37th anniversary of the McMannick Shuffle becoming a legal Mornington Crescent move and as such, I thought it only appropriate to start a game.
		I hope there are Mornington Crescent players around here; if there aren't, I hope some people will become some.
		To assist you, this is the map I prefer to use, but here's an alternate version if you can't open the first one.
	www.greatestjournal.com /go.bml?journal=emery_grant&itemid=3755&dir=next (159 words)

	Mornington Crescent Player Profiles
		As Emporer of his planet and Commander of an entire Galaxy's armed forces, the boy found little time for Mornington Crescent, until a car accident, in which his only injury was mercifully to his head, doubled his IQ to six.
		He then took his responsibilities more seriously, and was able to thwart an invasion upon his planet (against which his fleet faced odds of nearly 1000 to 1 in their own favour) by demanding from his enemies 'Unconditional Surrender', his own.
		It was here that he discovered Mornington Crescent, and believed it to be some form of continential breakfast, which immediately fuelled his enthusiasm for it.
	www.geocities.com /pantsmcprofiles/profiles.html (2417 words)

	ciphergoth.org: There are no rules to Mornington Crescent
		Lacking the comic talent of a Willie Rushton or Graeme Garden, for them the main appeal of the game becomes the feeling of superiority over those who are seeing the game played for the first time, and the warm feeling of being in the clique that knows the secret.
		For them, Mornington Crescent is no more than a socially acceptable form of trolling.
		However, if you really want to convince yourself, the easiest way is to make a move in the true spirit of the game.
	www.ciphergoth.org /writing/mornington.html (621 words)

	MORNINGTON CRESCENT
		This is a transcript of the game of Mornington Crescent (B7 version) played on the Lysator B7 mailing list in September 1999.
		The winner is obviously the first player to return to Earth, though for obvious reasons we'd have to ban the use of planets with retrograde orbits.
		Now admittedly the BBC had a phone call the other week from a Mrs Trellis complaining that her box appeared to be missing the rules, but anyone listening to the radio show will soon be able to pick them up.
	homepages.tesco.net /~N.Faulkner/blakes7/morncres.htm (1951 words)

	Great Mornington Crescent Players in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During the air-raids Joe would take shelter with other Londoners on the platform of the Bakerloo line, where he would pass the time by teaching children the rules of Mornington Crescent, and thereby ensured the success of the evacuation of children out of the city.
		He was recruited into the secret MCI-5 (Mornington Crescent Instigation-5 Overseas Ops) and soon rose to the rank of Major.
		In England in 1902, a new railway terminus in London for trains to and from towns like Leicester and Sheffield was built beside the old northern terminus which was overrun by wild Scots fleeing the Highland Dysentry plague (later traced to a batch of haggis boiled in sheep's bladders rather than stomachs).
	mozart.inet.co.th /cyberclub/olarn/mc1.htm (1122 words)

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