In article <g9hgkf$v7n$1@registered.motzarella.org>, 
kip@rochester.rr.com (Kip Williams) wrote:
> mike weber wrote:
> >  wrote:
> >> Abney Park, respectfully.
> > Putney Vale.  With a handful of roses.
> Necropolis Station, Waterloo.

Ah, the Anubis Variant.

Finchley Central.

Footnote: Finchley Central is a game identical to Mornington Crescent, 
except for the winning move, and less historical elaboration, published 
IIRC in Dave Langford and Kevin Smith's fanzine _Drlkjs_ at around the 
time that _I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue_ first aired. I heard Barry Cryer 
interviewed on the subject of Geoffrey Perkins on Sunday, and he pointed 
out that the game had circulated under several titles, and Perkins 
didn't actually invent it, although he probably did put it into ISIHAC. 

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John Dallman, jgd@cix.co.uk, HTML mail is treated as probable spam.

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:26 +0100 (BST), jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) wrote:

>Finchley Central is a game identical to Mornington Crescent, 
>except for the winning move, and less historical elaboration, published 
>IIRC in Dave Langford and Kevin Smith's fanzine _Drlkjs_ at around the 
>time that _I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue_ first aired. I heard Barry Cryer 
>interviewed on the subject of Geoffrey Perkins on Sunday, and he pointed 
>out that the game had circulated under several titles, and Perkins 
>didn't actually invent it, although he probably did put it into ISIHAC. 

Finchley Central was described in Kevin's solo fanzine =Dot= (1977), not
=Drilkjis=. I'm pretty sure that the outline of Finchley Central in Ian
Stewart's maths fanzine =Manifold= appeared earlier, but the =Seven Years
of Manifold= anthology (a jolly splendid book) doesn't date its articles.

Dave
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