Everybody in our gaming group has trouble remembering the name ‘Betrayal at House on the Hill’ right! Not sure why, but is does make me wonder if we are the only ones. My brains always want to include the words the and haunted, probably because the ‘haunt’ is a part of the actual game… and simply because the game is about a creepy house on a hill.
We were reminded of our incapability of saying the title of the game right when we heard that there is going to be a Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate! Interesting concept, but not one that’s on our list to be very honest. We should play Betrayal at the.. Betrayal at House on the Haunted Hi… Betrayal at House on the Hill more often first. 😉 I wouldn’t say it’s an amazing game, but it is hilarious and always interesting what bizarre scenario you end up in with a group.
Good news for our Italian readers! Semi Co-op is now being translated by Gabriele Berzoni and will be published twice a week on http://www.ilgioco.news/semi-co-op/ and on their Facebook page. Thank you, Gabriele! 🙂
You and your group, a remarkable set of characters that could have walked straight out a horror movie cast, explore a creepy house on a hill. After the exploring phase, the game changes. It is time for the Haunt! One of the players turns out to be a traitor and gets a different objective than the rest of the group. The betrayal is on! Who will get out of the house alive?
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Rob
It’s a common problem! Myself and all three groups I game with do the same thing. I think a lot of people get the film title “House on Haunted Hill” tangled up in their thinking.
Serge.EXE
I constantly screw up when I try to type out Millennium Blades. Stupid double letters. I actually had to look at the game box while typing this comment to make sure I did it correctly.
Valtharr
I personally have no problems with the name, but when I brought the game to a week lon get together with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while, one of them called it “The Secret House of Betrayal”, to everyone’s amusement. So you’re not the only one who just adds words to the title out of
nowhere ^^
The only game I maybe sometimes (but not very often, I think) slip up is Forbidden Desert, but only because they decided that the German title should be changed from “Forbidden Desert” (which would be “(Die) Verbotene Wüste”) to “Die Vergessene Stadt”, which means “The Forgotten City.” So I sometimes call it “Die Verbotene Stadt” (“The Forbidden Desert”) because of that.
Valtharr
of course the translation in that last sentence should say “The Forbidden City.” Derp.
Rachel
Oh yes, good one! In Dutch, it is called the ‘De Vergeten Stad’ – The Forgotten City as well. 😀 I keep messing up the names of Forbidden Island and Forbidden City… eh Desert, Forbidden Desert for the same reason.
Weezoh
You are so not alone in this!
Rachel
Phew – good to know!
Jake Alexios
More often than not for me, Tokaido can’t be referenced without afterwards clarifying that – wait, is that the Panda one? … no that’s Takenoko!
Oh, and is it Camel Up … or Camel Cup?? The “C” on the box is big enough and placed so that it could be part of both words.
(Everywhere I look it’s Camel Up, but wouldn’t Camel Cup make more sense?)
Also, for some reason I always want to call Codenames “Crosswords.” … I’ve received so many blank stares.
(I suppose it kind of makes sense, though, right? You are trying to point out words, arranged in a criss-cross pattern … right? *sigh*)
And how is Cyclades pronounced?
Heinze Havinga
O man! I always thought that Cyclades is pronounced the way SUSD did it, but now i realise they also butcher the name of Feif, Arboretum and Archipelago. Now i don’t know what to think!
In all seriousness Board Game Replay seems to have another pronunciation than SUSD and Dicetower, help native speakers, help!
Rhubarb
Camel Cup is both “Camel Up and Camel Cup” – it’s a brilliant marketing scheme really.
Cyclades is pronounced Sick-lad-ees, like hades at the end and a very pronounced Sick at the beginning!
Heidi
“I made a diagram” … lol, clear. In my head things are usually linear graphs or concept maps 🙂
Kat
We just call it Betrayal House! xD
Jasper
This might also be compounded by movies like “House on Haunted Hill” and tv-series like “The Haunting of Hill House” 🙂
Mike Kries
My daughter calls it “Betrayal at the House” and loves playing it with us. She will be 5 this month.
Chris
“Quacks of Quedlinburg”.
Ulrich
Ever played Dwellings of Everdell?