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You can play this game in it's simplest form with children, to teach them about anticipation and social cues and hidden rules. The base game is super simple. Y
by henrikschroder 3y ago
You can play this game in it's simplest form with children, to teach them about anticipation and social cues and hidden rules.
The base game is super simple. You go around taking turns, each player saying a London underground station - or pick a similar, familiar, enumerable set - and the first one who says Mornington Crescent wins the game. When someone does, you quickly announce the winner and immediately start a new round.
If you play it with children, see how long it takes them to realize that the fun lies in not saying the winning station. And how much fun you can have by anticipating what the others are going to say.
- afandian 3y agoMy wife and I are convinced that Pokemon is a giant secret extended game of Mornington Crescent played by the younger generation. Which is a comfort.
- bitwize 3y agoI'm convinced that corporate Agile is a Mornington Crescent-like game in which a team pretends to be an effective team that responds to vague, changing requirements with adaptable solutions... but they're really engaged in appeasing upper management, who have already set a budget and a deadline, with burndown charts and good JIRA velocity numbers.
- vundercind 3y agoAnyone got other good social-games for kids? I’ll contribute: Questions, in which one attempts to carry on a “conversation” consisting entirely of questions that may not be nonsensical or non-sequiturs. First person to ask a garbage/illegal question or to make a statement, loses. Traditionally initiated with “would you like to play questions?” And: some of the imagination games from Impro can be good. Collaborative automatic writing (though the adult will need to self-censor a bit); tricking a kid who “can’t think of stories” into writing a story by asking you questions about a “secret story” you wrote (you did no such thing—of course you eventually clue them in that they’re far more imaginative than they believed), that kind of stuff.
- crooked-v 3y agoDid you know that Whose Line Is It Anyway has some great examples of that first game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cX8KLOb0w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cX8KLOb0w8
- stavros 3y agoI don't understand this. Why wouldn't I just immediately say Mornington Crescent? And why would I anticipate what the next person says? Why don't they just say Mornington Crescent? This is baffling.
- martynr 3y agoIt’s not the winning, it’s the taking part
- 4ndrewl 3y agoNorthfields
- stavros 3y agoMornington Crescent.
- PaulRobinson 3y agoNo, I'm sorry we've already stated in this thread we're playing the Atlantic variant for our American cousins - you therefore can't do the Piccadilly Stretch from Northfields, and you therefore lose the game.
- stavros 3y agoI'm Greek, which means I can capture High Barnet under the Her Majesty variant and win the game.
- afandian 3y agoToo soon.
- PaulRobinson 3y agoOh I am sorry, you might not be aware that Greeks explicitly lost the ability to play Monarchial Variants when Prince Philip passed away. It's stipulated in Volume XIIV of the Windsor Appendix. To be fair to you, it is in itself in Appendix IV, Section 41, so it's easily missed by casual players.