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* Item #101 of the 2005 [[University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt]] was for one player on each team to "participate in an email adaptation of the classic game Mornington Crescent," using the [[Chicago 'L'|CTA rail system]]. Participants were warned, "We shall follow the standard Thurgood-Hamilton conversion algorithm, but banning semi-lateral shunts."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scavhunt1.uchicago.edu/lists/2005.pdf| format=PDF|title=[[University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt]] 2005 list}}</ref>
* After the death of [[Willie Rushton]], one of ''ISIHAC'''s long-time participants, in 1996, his life was commemorated by a [[blue plaque]] in the ticket office of Mornington Crescent Tube Station in 2002. ("Willie Rushton: Satirist")
* In the [[alternate reality game]] [[Perplex City]], [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/1/140/ card #140] in the blue hex set is titled "Mornington Crescent." The puzzle is to determine the proper play based on stations in Perplex City. The card does not explain the rules, claiming that it would insult the player's intelligence. In fact, naming ''any'' station on the Perplex City tube map was acceptable.
* ''[[The Steep Approach to Garbadale]]'' by [[Iain Banks]] mentions Mornington Crescent as a game created by the fictional company Wopuld Ltd., described as being "based on the map of the [[London underground]] with a complicated double-level board".
* In the novel ''[[Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction]]'' by [[Sue Townsend]], the protagonist writes to Radio 4 demanding a copy of the rules in the mistaken belief that it is a real game.
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