 One claim is that it was invented by Geoffrey Perkins, who stated in an interview that Mornington Crescent was created as a non-game.Barry Cryer, a panellist on the programme since 1972, has said that Geoffrey Perkins did not invent the game, and that it had been around since the sixties.According to Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton, the game was invented to vex a series producer who was unpopular with the panellists.