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Evidence emeges that Mornington Crescent was played long before current records began.

LOL made me chuckle

tubeguru wrote:Evidence emeges that Mornington Crescent was played long before current records began.

Are you sure it's Mornington Crescent they're playing, rather than the London Game ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Game )?

Quite certain, as the map on the floor there shows stations further out than those used on the London Game's gameboard.

He's playing with the map the wrong way round!

Playing Aristotle rules then....

He certainly does. Rule, that is.

Many people think the game of Mornington Crescent was based on the Underground map, when of course, the Underground system was built based on the game of Mornington Crescent.

That does explain why the rules keep changing as more stations are added. I remember the furore when Wood Lane opened, and we all had to rebalance our Mile-End-weighted-diagonal algorithms to remain competitive.

To be truthful, it's a miracle that anyone understands the rules these days.