Mornington Crescent, anyone?

[Xantia-nut]

I'll kick off with:

Baker Street

[JPB]

[MidgetSaab]

Green Park (I take it we're playing forsythe's standard rules)

[JPB]

It would be polite to explain what you're blethering on about.

[MidgetSaab]

See below, taken from Wikipedia with thanks.

"Mornington Crescent is an improvisational game, featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which satirises complicated panel games[1].

The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The apparent[1] aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern Line. Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using. Despite appearances, however, there are no rules to the game,[2] and both the naming of stations and the specification of "rules" are based on stream-of-consciousness association and improvisation.[3] Thus the game is intentionally incomprehensible."

However there is also a school of thought that it did have some rules and was invented in the early 1950's based upon an A-Z and flicking between page numbers with the objective of reaching Mornington Crescent before anyone else did.

It's all very silly really just like the whole radio programme.

[EricTheRed]

Hendon Central

[EricTheRed]

The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The apparent[1] aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern Line. Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using. Despite appearances, however, there are no rules to the game,[2] and both the naming of stations and the specification of "rules" are based on stream-of-consciousness association and improvisation.[3] Thus the game is intentionally incomprehensible.".

Another Wikipedia article written by someone who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about!

Anyway as I said - Hendon Central

[rich.]

i still have no idea how it works & i listen to the show...

[MidgetSaab]

the trouble is I'm not sure what's bluff, double bluff and plain cobblers. If it makes me laugh it doesn't really matter

[MidgetSaab]

thinking about it my comment above works for both Mornington Crescent and Wikipedia