Mornington Crescent/How to Play MC
From Mornington Crescent
[edit] The Game
You will require:
2 or more players
A map of the London underground (this may be printed, in your head or viewed here)
Younger players may also find it useful to use a token such as a small coin to keep track of the current position of play.
[edit] The Aim
To move from the starting station (the first station called) to Mornington Crescent. The player that gets to Mornington Crescent wins the game.
[edit] The Rules
Starting move.
The first player may choose any station within zones 3 to 6 which is neither a main-line station or an underground intersection.
Eg. Leyton is a legal first move; Stratford is not as it is both a main line station and an underground intersection. Likewise no station between Bromley-by-Bow and Braking is a legal starting move as all are on both the District and the Hammersmith and City lines
After the first move the following rules apply:
1. Play continues from the last station to be played.
Eg. If Leyton is called as first move, the next player must make a legal move beginning from Leyton.
2. A player may move from any main-line station within the map to any other main-line station within the map that is within the same zone as the original main-line station.
Eg. Paddington to Old Street is fine as they are both zone 1 (see main-line jumps to different lines rule) Queens Park to Old Street is not as Queens park is zone 2.
3. Each turn a player may move between zones once OR change lines at an intersection once OR travel across a main-line station once.
So legal moves from our example of Leyton include:
Bethnal Green but not Liverpool street - (Bethnal green is a move from zone 3 to zone 2 via the central line. Liverpool street is also central line but would be a change of 2 zones, zone 3 to zone 1)
West Acton but not Acton Town - (reached via Stratford main-line to Ealing Broadway main-line the whole move to West Acton is in Zone 3 AND on the Central Line. Acton Town is also Zone 3 and reachable from Ealing Broadway, but also requires a change from Central Line to District Line)
Canning town but not Prince Regent - (Canning town is a straight change at Stratford onto the Jubilee Line, Prince Regent would be a straight change at Stratford onto the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) but requires going through zone 2 and back out to zone 3)
4. When a player ends his turn on an intersection the next player may choose which of the available lines he or she is on.
5. When a player ends his turn on a main-line station the next player may choose to jump to a new main-line station from his starting position (Zone rules still apply) before choosing which line he or she is on.
6. Main-line jumps to different lines: When jumping to a legal station which is not on the same underground line as you original (as in the example Paddington to Old street), your move ends at the new main-line station ie. in the example it would be Old Street
7. First player to Mornington Crescent wins
