From: ucjtrjf@ucl.ac.uk (Jonny Farringdon)
Newsgroups: alt.games.mornington.cresent
Subject: FAQ - Rules
Summary: Well *NOT* realy a FAQ, but rather a
Keywords: faq rules
Date: 18 Nov 92 12:49:58 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium


Well *NOT* realy a FAQ, but rather a


                 L O O S E   C O L L E C T I O N   O F

                 M O R N I N G T O N   C R E S C E N T

                             R U L E S



These rules were taken from various games played here on
alt.games.mornington.cresent . However, the rules are all taken from game
situations *which* i forgot to keep / papa-phrase, so you're on your own
there! (sorry about that)

You should note that when in a tight spot, it has been known for players to
make up rules! Sa Humph said not so long ago to Tim, ``If you make the rules
up, what's the point of playing?''  Keep this in mind, as i havn't gone
through the following to check for fakes. (i'll leave that as an excercise for
the reader)


So without further ado, here is a collection of most rules used by the regular
players of alt.games.mornington.cresent   .......

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Government intervention (Major rule set)  {DC}


Playing the Olympia and York rules I am allowed to do this provided I am not a
reciever in bankrupcy  {h}


No, you can't do this unless you use the Griegsburg rule concerning trans-
pacific moves using the escalator link. However, the Bismark rule contradicts
this since the link is unidirectional, and to use the stairs means that you
would have to travel via Cannon Street ( providing of course that you abide by
the the Stevenson rule governing station closures on Sundays and Bank
holidays... )

You could take a No.12 bus ( if you are using the amended Liebowitz ruling on
the usage of LRT One Day Travel Passes ) which would get you as far as
Monument ( providing that your pass is valid for all zones north of the river)
This clashes with the 42 North rule, which states that if you travel to 3 or  
more stations north of the river without going south of the river ( excluding 
the East London line - see the Brainston rule ), then you must travel via a   
further 42 stations north of the river without reusing any of the stations (  
assuming that it is not during peak hours on the third Friday of the month )  
before being able to go south.

There is of course the Versailles Amendment which affects all those players
living north of London. Under this amendment, you must travel to stations  
further to the north each turn ( except if you begin at Finchley Central ).
So, given these few rules, my next move would have to be...

I hope that this has simplified matters *8-)   {NG}


Under the revised 1991/2 Universal System Edicts for New Electric Trains I'd
like to play the great Mile End two way split (before you say a word, section
5.2, paragraph a - Bank and Monument are treated as the same  station for
interchange purposes).

For the soc.culture.british half of the move, as you've probably guessed, it's
a straight forward Mornington Crescent, for half points. This does limit my   
options for the alt.mornington.cresent play, so I'll play a  defensive stroke 
- Bethnal Green (Stratford would give a free move to Liverpool St. if anyone  
played their travelcard).  {S}



well there is the (admittedly derivative) game "mornington circle" ... this is
basically just mornington crescent restricted to the  circle line ... however 
such games tend to be protracted and a stalement is almost always agreed (even
when play anticlockwise reversals). Clever people sometimes try to play "the  
place just before angel where the you ait in the tunnel for 5 minutes for no  
apparent reason" but this doesn't help much.  {DS} This is also found rather  
difficult for beginers who (for some reason) have troubble sticking to the    
circle-line game and ever getting to m.c.  {JF}

The reason beginning Circle Line players cannot get to Mornington Crescent is
that M.C. is on the Northern Line. {B}


But according to the EUR 5.17.2.1, movements to Jungfernstieg are disallowed
until the completion of a loop through the Kentish NSE system. One assumes  
that as you have the Euro-card (preferably a green one, as that is the best 
way to get to Jungfernstieg), you must have an NSE three day rail pass. I   
remind you that at least one of these NSE trains must be driven by a  class 
47. {JM}


As the Rio Earth Summit has opened, I believe I can claim double points for:
WOOD GREEN (anyone know of a station called Tropical Rain Forest Green
anywhere?)  =:-]  {JS}

I think the station you are looking for is Turnham Green, of course citizens
of the U.S.A could not use this move without paying a forfeit. {NR}

A transverse move (I'm assuming here we're playing the Docklands Light Railway
addenda to the rules) which forces you to forfeit your free station closure,  
and brings the Docklands Light Railway replacement bus service into play.     
{HB}


No, Pentonville is the better of the two moves. If you had chosen Holloway, I
would have been able to invoke Harper's Obfuscation Clause (from the 1983 Rule
Supplement) and move to Shepherd's Bush. I think we all know what would have  
happened then.

As it is, I'm forced to opt for Farringdon. Remember, Thameslink trains from
Farringdon are not allowed unless the person making the move is eligible under
the Semi-Transparent Occlusion Rule and, as Crossroads is no longer being
shown, the number of people eligible is now very small indeed.  {JY}

Thanks for the pointer.  Being new at this game, I had to look up the
tournament you're referring to in Barron's Mornington Cresent [sic] Tournament
Records, 1983-4 edition.  The commentary suggested the Gatos strategy, but the
Limping Horse maneuver (as I played above) looks more promising to me.

I believe that as the game is played in Northern (but not Southern)
Nottingham, moving from Docklands (lower) to Queen Elizabeth II is a valid
move at this point.  It's risky, though, because the game would become very
constrained if the boat happened to launch while we were on it.  {TF}


>Now - Come on What is the point in this?
Cow - It seems like there really isn't a point, doesn't it?  {GA}


I'm afraid you missed the sub-clause that states that such a move is not
permitted unless `Heathrow Terminals 1,2 and 3' has previously been reached,
in which case you would have had to gone to Ohlsdorf to enable the HVV system
to enter the game. So all you jet-setters please note , no jaunting across   
Europe before getting to Heathrow, unless of course you've reached Victoria in
which case you are permitted to take the train to Dover and enter Europe by   
the slower, but more scenic route  {JS}




I believe that you are only allowed the Chunnel variant of the rules if you
areposting from a multi-national corporation.  {SS}  {surly wrong?}


        Perhaps you have forgotten the skillful way in which J. Evans used a
Plain Firkin to travel from Wimbledon to East Ham in the 1987 Whitcombe Cup ?
The more astute players among us will have realised that the Taylore revision
of '82 allows a player to complete his move by travelling to any other station
on the District Line further downstream than the Hungerford Bridge ( this was 
indeed the move that Evans made against Hucker, thus bringing the game to a   
speedy conclusion in the second hour of play )

        Your move to Pimlico, quite fortuitously gives me an opening for
Rigby's move ( and the subsequent transitory move through Green Park to Euston
- see rule 54.2 (xi) concerning Northern Line interchanges to other BR
stations during peak hours ). However, due to the well publicised nature of
this move, I shall break with convention, and make my next move to Finchley
Central {NG}

 Having looked back over some previous journals I have found a similar move by
Dr Redwind (1986 Toronto Conference on Limited Line Games.  Where moves are   
used to reduce the number of available lines for the entire game.) Dr
Redwind's move led to the elimination of the Jubilee and Bakerloo lines in one
fast and very foul move.  Fortunatly for our fellow players this has not been 
invoked this time, because the Minari Ruling (1st Hong Kong Conference 1989)  
Part XII (ix) states:

        c)      Where Westminster has been previously moved to not more than
15 moves previously, then the Albert Ruling (used by Dr Redwind) is voided by
the change in staffing levels at Stockwell.

        This ofcourse could have led to a stalemated game as happened
in the Hong Kong demonstration game.  {F}


Well, this is an interesting move, because I believe (correct me if I'm wrong,
I only have last month's rule set update) that I can make a slight parallel   
jump here, so long as no blatant verbal puns are involved:  A jump from
Farringdon (Avoiding, as his Lordship pointed out, Thames Link) to Farringdon,
Oxon.: the two begin within +/- 5degrees of parallel latitude.  This move can 
facilitate making the game more interesting by openning possibilities for
other transport servicies, eg.: if someone has the initiative to make the next
move a mere couple of miles down the road toward Swindon, Shrivenham is an
open door, via the Royal Military College of Science, to Cranfield, and thence
to the entire JANet backbone...  {GJE}


This last move is only allowed under The Next Generation Rules, in which Data
must hold your hand while you walk through the Anathema Wormhole Crossing from
the corner of Sol and Camelopardis and enter the MC station via the
coal-chute.  I thought it was understood we're all The Original Series
players, here, and making the Warp-10 speed from Falstaff's Butt to MC would
cause the engines to blow.   {b}



        The move to Tottenham Court Road is a standard no loss/ no
        gain move, its just so boring, and the use of the Circle Line
        Reentracy Gambit shows a very serious lacking in the knowlege of Game
        tactics.  I could quite easily finish the game in three moves,

                Finsbury Park
                Pimlico
                Mornington Cresent

        Using the 1990 Slave-Deren Loop which is played too often in
        the early rounds of many championships even today.  The number of
        players I saw lose to this was astounding especially considering the
        coverage it has recieved in recent years.  However I canunderstand if
        maybe a few players have forgotten this Loop, and in the interests of
        interesting play, I play a two move follow through (using the 1984   
        Brussels Conference on multi move turns ruling to play ) {NG}



Comment
~~~~~~


        The calls to correct the spelling of the newsgroup  mornington.cresent
are ill-advised.  One must appreciate the relative importance and authority of
game (world-model) spelling versus the bureacratic designations of local
authorities like cities or transport authorities.  This game, like Monopoly
(TM), is played by, perhaps, hundreds of thousands worldwide, whereas the  
actual Mornington Crescent Underground station is merely local in interest,
and not much at that since it is arguably the dullest stop in Greater London.
No, our guide should be the Parker Brothers Company, makers of Monopoly (TM);
the original (USA) version of the game, originally designed to teach and
promote the economics of Henry George (tax land, not improvements), was based
on Atlantic City, New Jersey.  The well known property "Marvin Gardens" is   
based on an area in Atlantic City area called Marven Gardens.  When the City 
of Atlantic City importuned the company to repair the misspelling, Parker    
Brothers, Inc.  instructed the city to change the spelling to conform to the 
game.

        We should adopt the same tone, and it might be a good idea right now
to commence a campaign to get whatever replaced the oppressive GLC, and London
Transport, to change the street and station to "cresent" accordingly.  We have
nothing to lose but our chains.
                        FWL
                           
                           
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Post-Comment.

I see that our site has ..

alt.games.mornington.cresent 0000000157 0000000001 y
alt.games.mornington.crescent 0000000000 0000000001 y

Which is probobly where i have been going wrong -- i wish someone had
told me though .. i wonder how many others got lost?? - the new
group seems only to have had post here for the last week. Nothing
for 2/3 months ... so clearly lotts of rules that have been missed

:-(          J.  ucjtrjf@ucl.ac.uk