Mornington Crescent

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ALEXW

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Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the game Mornington Cresent, as made famous at Hidden Earth has been stolen by The BBC.
Perhaps Mrs Trellis can help shed light on how this happened.
 
RobinGriffiths

RobinGriffiths

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Worth bearing in mind that even after you've mastered the rules of the original version, there are plenty of variations for the hardcore player to get their teeth into, including but not limited to:
  • Argyle Street Parabola
  • Hooper’s Mainline Variation
  • North Circular Open & General Rules
  • Stovold’s 2nd Amendment to the Standard Convention (1972)
  • Shropshire Hold’em
  • Spooner's Cronington Mescent
 
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ALEXW

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Ah, Stovoid's 2nd Amendment. It was introduced in an failed attempt to prevent the ritualized blood letting after the !st Amendment on Walpurgis Night in 1874. In Yorkshire, however, Stovoid's 1st is sometimes played on All Hallows' Eve by certain underground societies.
 
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ALEXW

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I have spent a huge part of my life writing a computer playable version, not easy because the rules can be rather complicated.
My algorithm was thrown into disarray by the new line recently opened.
Damn you Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms.
I give up.
 
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mrodoc

mrodoc

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the version played at Hidden Earth was called Rolling Thunder as there were copyright issues!
 
RobinGriffiths

RobinGriffiths

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It's a fast moving
ALEXW said:
I have spent a huge part of my life writing a computer playable version, not easy because the rules can be rather complicated.
My algorithm was thrown into disarray by the new line recently opened.
Damn you Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms.
I give up.
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This is of course why companies such as Google are pumping so much money into AI. That will future-proof their Morno-bots™ from any rail infrastructure changes in the future.

Above - A Google Morno-bot™ limbering up by doing a spot of parkour before a tricky game of Mornington Crescent against an IBM Crescent-o-matic™ (the historic Lord Grosvenor’s Original Metropolitan Rules variation)
 
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