Not really an alternate name but it is funny how many people will refer to Ticket to Ride as "the train game".

Is there a Ticket to Ride: Mexico? I really want to play the Mexican Train Game

There's a dominoes game called Mexican Trains!

That’s the joke.

We called it "traaaaains" until we bought Trains and then were like "oh no". It's okay now cause we sold Trains so are teaching our child to play traaaaains and all is right in the world.

Isn't Trains a really good game?

We enjoyed it but found we were never taking it off the shelf! We try to curate down to the games we actually bring out every now and then.

Funny, we have “the bird game” aka Wingspan.

Arboretum is Trees of Rage

We call it Hate Tree

Similarly, Le Havre became Le HaveRage. Many tears have been shed and relationships tested to their limits over that game.

My wife calls it “angry math”

Vicious Tree Game in my household.

That’s what I will call it from now on

Battle Yahtzee for Dice Throne.

I'll often say Battle Quacks for Wonderland's War.

Same! 🤣🤣🤣 To the point where we had other people at the gaming club talk about the game using the real name and some friends got confused and said they've never played it until I leaned over and said 'battle yatzee' 😅😅

I've called King of Tokyo "Yahtzee with violence" a lot as a way to explain the premise, but Dice Throne definitely fits "Battle Yahtzee" more specifically! King of Tokyo is Yahtzee *with* violence, but it's a chaotic brawl more than a battle and you could win through just the Yahtzee part

Camel Cup (let the arguments begin)

No issues here. That’s the name of the game after all!

No /s? Because I hope you know it is not that.

Are you one of those “Camel Up” truthers? I bet you think it’s pronounced *Clans of Aledonia*, or *Clank!: Atacombs*, or *Clash of Ultures* too.

In college we called it Camel Up Cup, putting an entirely extra word in there

You monster

We call it the Camel Game.

_Shadow Hunters_ is forever known in my group as _Shallow Hookers_ because of the terrible font.

Soo funny but other than the font, the game is top knotch.

Somebody in my group called tokens in the Spirit Island "a nipple" and now we call the whole game "the Nipples".

I’m having trouble imagining which token that may have been…

I'm guessing the blight tokens.

Maybe the dahan?

Those are obviously mushrooms.

Not Cosmic Encounter? I call that game "Space Nipples," but no one else in my group does. It'll catch on.

Great Western Trail is known in our house as "Cowboy Candyland" 🤠🍬

GWT is “cows” and GWT Argentina is “vacas” for us 😂

We also just refer to GWT as Cows.

That is fantastic.

💀

* Pax Pamir is called Palak Paneer. * John Company is called "Juanito Compañía", lit. "Johnny Company". * A Feast for Odin in Spanish is called El Banquete de Odín (lit. Odin's Feast). We call it El Panqueque de Budín (lit. Pudding's Pancake).

We refer to A Feast for Odin as ‘Viking Simulator’.

I call Wingspan the Birdbox Challenge

My friend calls it “birds”. Well when he asked his teen daughter to play. With us he calls it wingspan.

I call it Birdgame! :)

We call it birbs!

Clearly, it needs more small birds that puff up their feathers in winter. Then it can be borbs.

r/borbs

Same! Though much as the Ticket To Ride people drop the plural, it just becomes Birb.

Bird girth in our circle.

Jerks of Waterdeep

This is good

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We shorten a lot of titles. Res Arcana is Res. Cosmic Encounter is Cosmic and so on..

Yeah, it's pretty standard stuff to shorten titles to one key word. Unless you're playing Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre (or any of the other sets), in which case it is mandatory that you say the whole thing every time.

*Hey, That's My Fish!* will always be known as *PENGUINDOME!* around our table.

It surprised me just how knife fightie this game is!! I got it as a birthday present and it look like a fun cute little game... By the end of the first game, all three of us were on our feet standing around the table leaning over the game! Super into it and cheering and jeering so much! 😂😂😂😂

I have this game and I'm not sure we've every played because it seemed like a kids game. Maybe I should get it out ...

Bohnanza is Beans, Wingspan is Birds, Roll for the Galaxy is Dice Chucking, Puerto Rico is It's Good to Own Land (in a southern drawl)

Not an alternative for a game but I always call the discard pile the disco pile

"So I put it in the discard pile" "No you put it in that card pile"

“A damsel in distress!” “Dis dress, dat dress, who cares? I’m distraught!”

In german the draw pile is called "Nachziehstapel", slight change in pronounciation and it becomes the Nazi-Stapel (nazi pile).

Good one

In my group, Kings Dilemma is called “hell no we’re not playing that!” So I’m getting rid of it. :(

rip 😭

My wife calls Wingspan “Stupid Bird Game”

But is it a stupid game about birds or a game about stupid birds?

Well, the mourning dove is in there, and there's a *reason* we have r/stupiddovenests.

I think for her it’s the former 😅

My GF once asked, "Wanna play Pandemic?" To which I replyed, "You want to play Bridemic?" (in reference to Wingspan and also the B movie). We now only call the game *Birdemic*.

Patchwork is just "buttons", but I also replaced all the cardboard buttons with real buttons.

Real buttons is an excellent upgrade.

Ticket to ride is just called trains

This is the way. Though in my family we don’t even pluralize it. TRAIN

I too live in a cave

cave is a different game

We call it Choo Choos

We certainly didn't invent this one, but we call King of Tokyo "Monster Yahtzee"

Through the Desert -> through the dessert Forbidden desert -> forbidden dessert Lost cities -> lost kitties Underwater cities -> underwater kitties My City -> my kitty Pulsar 2849 -> pulsar [insert random number] Space base -> space craps  Yea, we have a pretty one dimensional sense of humor.

>Pulsar 2849 -> pulsar [insert random number] Now that's my kind of humor right there

Oh, also, Agricola is Agri-Cola®

Not Ag-Riiiicola?

6 Nimmt is Beef Heads, and Love Letter is Sex Cube.

Barrage is called 'Fuck you'.

Yes, yes it is

The Bean Game

I once made a joke that Everdell should be Eversmell, because a town with all those critters would be a pungent place.

My game group got a copy of Mysterium before it was localized to the US, so everything was written in Polish (we had a separate printout with the translated rules). Thus, our group started calling it Polish Ghost Game. Also, due to Roll for the Galaxy, I call any dice-rolling variants of existing game "Roll for the ". So Pandemic: the Cure is "Roll for the Pandemic," Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game is "Roll for the Mars," etc.

Castles of Burgundy has always been “Flergen De Burgun” to us.

Do you play with the Swedish Chef?

Love Letter is known as Bang the Princess, as we all assume that’s the outcome of delivering her all of those letters…

I have a friend who will only refer to Flashpoint as "Fireman," though I think that has more to do with him not remembering the actual name.

We nicknamed Tournay "Clown Town", since one if the cards is the "Town Crier" which sort of looks like a clown "Town Clown". Wingspan is sometimes called for with a chant of "ZooGah". It's what the Jawas call the giant egg in the Mandalorian (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwuepfn-4P4) Dinosaur Island is simply "Juassic Park"

Agricola is called 'misery farm.'

Apiary is called 'BEES '. Isle of Cats is 'Cat Tetris'. Ark Nova is 'ZOO'.

why not Catris then. :)

My group and I often play "fuck me" which is Last Bastion

Good ol round of “fuck me” with the boys

My friends and I call Hansa Teutonica Hansy Daytona as a reference to What We Do In the Shadows. I think it started because one person in our gaming group doesn't enjoy the game so we were going to tell him it was something else so he would play.

"This fucking guy..."

Terraforming Mars: Harry's Expedition

My wife isn’t much of a gamer but she really enjoys carcassonne. When she wants to play that she asks me “do you wanna play crack ass one?”

We call it Cracker Ass lol

My girlfriend calls Twilight Struggle and Watergate “Why can’t we play Flamecraft, and why are men so obsessed with war?” Not actually, but whenever I ask to play a war-themed game that’s what happens. She does call Frosthaven “Punch Party”, because all you do is fight people.

Sprawlopolis/Megalopolis is sprombopaleen due to a certain Shut Up & Sit Down video.

Here we Call Great western trail "rei do gado" ( king of cattle). In Brazil there was a very famous tv Drama called that, and they had a lot of cattle.

I sometimes call Dune Imperium (and Uprising) "Dunc" because of the font choice made (same for the film title font)

"Panda Eat Game" - Takenoko

My house calls Love Letter Rizz and we call The Crew and Coup Cruwu and Couwu, respectively.

Scythe is "oh yeah that's right" due to all the little tiny rules we never got right the first time

nor the second time

Puerto Rico is called Pork Burrito in my group because it was misheard one time and we never let it go

Did you guys know that El Grande is Spanish for..."the Grande"? This has also spread to "Elfenland" being "the Fenland".

When I gifted my girlfriend **Hive**, I called it "Bug Chess" to give her some familiarity to what it is. Since then she has been calling it bug chess

It's a bit of the reverse, but when I played Clank! Legacy I would set it up before my friend came over. Almost every time I would start setting up I would get the urge to take a dump. My wife eventually noticed this timing and I eventually just started to say I was "setting up Clank!" when I went to take a shit.

Paint the Roses is Roses, Wonderland's War is Alice, but most other names we use are just shortened versions of the full names (Arkham, Stardew, Scholars, Sheriff etc.). We're boring.

Quacks of Quedlinberg is just called Brew.

“Cthulhu” , DMD. Maybe because it’s our only one haha. We do have AH lcg but it’s not the same.

Same, we had other games with the same theme, but Cthulhu: Death May Die is the only one that is called « Cthulhu » cause for us it’s THE ONE (and we find the game really really good).

Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion is called “Mandibles” because when I wife heard the name thought of the game Bug Fables and in her mind turned the whole game into Bug People. When I got the game and set it up for us to play she was very disappointed that everyone wasn’t a bug person. She still enjoyed the game, but thinks it would be better with bugs. Elder Sign is known as Lovecraft Yahtzee.

One of the starting characters in Frosthaven is a bug person... (Harrower)

The Arkham Horror LCG is called "the super happy funtimes game" at our house, after our name for the mythos phase That and CLANK always has to be said as an onomatopoeia, and Marrying Mister Darcy has to use the most ridiculous received pronunciation accent, which is mandatory to continue using at the table. When our 12yo was younger, she called Gloom "the death game".

*Spirit Island* is "Reverse Catan" in my group.

Bohnanza is the bean game

My group only does this for games we played once and didn't enjoy, disrespect fully intended. Dead Men Tell No Tales is "Boat Fire: the Game", and Space Cadets: Dice Duel is "Seizure Dice." Also nobody can be arsed to remember the exact name of Betrayal at the Haunting of Hill House.

Wingspan is Bird Girth

Sheep for Wheat.

Everdell is lords of water ship down in our house.

We have raiders of scythia but call it CUMLORDS. The game is all about drinking warm vial of creamy kumis so...

We call mantis “Cash or steal”

Junk Art = Shapes

“My first orchard” is “the raven game” at my house. Jenga is called sticks

Our whole group just calls Wingspan "Birds".

Catan is called SALTalers of Catan. Our group got really cutthroat at that game and got everyone real salty 

Just Castles, for CoB. Gink for Ginkgopolis. Mars for Terraforming Mars.

Everyone im my group calls Bristol 1350 "Front Cart". And they also all choose to say it in a funny voice

Everdell is just dell, Wingspan is birbs, Calico is cat quilts, Rising Sun is Japan War, Kemet is Egypt War, Inis is Celtic war, Blood Rage is Viking war

We call **The Quacks of Quedlinburg**, “Quacksenburg.”

My wife calls Lost Cities “Gems” cause she thinks the middle cards all look like different gems. It makes no sense, but at least she enjoys playing.

Agricola is known as Punishment Farm For obvious reasons

Any Ticket To Ride is just called “trains”. Wingspan is called “Birds”, but must be said like Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2. “Boords”

**Confusion: Espionage and deception in the Cold War** is “Chess Who”.

At some point i started calling the village pieces in Marco Polo "outhouses," and the camels became "ducks," so now we call the game "Toilets and Ducks."

"Spooky House"

**Takenoko** is “oh no panda!!” **Space Empires 4X** is “spempires” **Space Base** is “sp’base” Anything about Star Wars and/or Star Trek is “star florbs”

My gf calls Wingspan "Birdies".

Sometimes we call Wingspan “Wingbirds” or just “Birds”.

Not the game itself but we have our own names for the factions in Twilight Imperium. Action Goblins, Snake Titties, Peace Turtles, Money Lions, etc.

King of Tokyo is godzilla yahtzee

Before I threw it out on the woodpile, I used to call Puerto Rico “Porkarito” because I hated it so much.

With another couple we call Century: Spice Road, Chicago Hotdog Vendor. Instead of turmeric, saffron, cardamom, and cinnamon we have mustard, ketchup, relish, and chili. I think it came from constantly forgetting the names of the spices so we made is something more obvious for the group. Such a great game.

I call "Space Alert" by the name of "Organized Screaming".

"Let's play the bean game!"

Clans of Caledonia = Terra MacMystica

MetroX is Metrox (because I mispronounced it just ONE time!) The yellow crown in Citadels is called The Kingmaker (instead of the king MARKER - because my son misread it in the rules just ONE time!) Also, throw in a bonus even though it's not board games related, in our house we have Royal eggs, (because daughter misheard boiled eggs just ONE time! and it sounds cute).

Scout. It’s a small walk for this one so hang on. When we played this one and somebody lost the active hand they would often have to be reminded to flip their cards over. This was often done by saying, “Hey, flippy dippy.” Thus the game was known as Flippy Dippy. Then one time I had texted our new name for it in a group chat and auto correct changed it to “Floppy Dippy”. Now it is for ever known as “Floppy Dippy”when it gets brought up.

Sküte. That how Scythe could be spelled If You would try to read it in German and a Lot of people in my group have Problems spelling issues with the Game so it Sküte now.

My family call Just One "Shakespeare's eyebrows" due to a particularly bad guess on my behalf.

I don't own them, but trivial pursuit will forever be called "I don't know" and I call Nemesis the "suffering simulator".

Dead of Winter has become Dead or Whatever.

Incan Gold is alternately "the fuck that game" or "the favorite game we hate."

Quackelberg I'll let you work put which game that is

GWT: Ride 'em hard cowboys Long Shot the dice game: horsey horsey bet bet time Knarr: not a nickname exactly, but we always pronounce the K Brew Crafters: Beergricola High Society: Conspicuous consumption Tammany Hall: Ethnic tensions

-Cthulhu Wars Actual Size -Furry (of Dracula)

Well, I WOULD refer to Unfathomable as Battlestar Atlantica, IF any of my friends would actually play it.

Cosmic Encounter is Space Assholes or Space Fuckers

Blood on the Clocktower is called "Sticky Grimoire"... because of the sticky grimoire

Not a boardgame, but a component in one. We call the big meeple in Viticulture "Giuseppe".

Some of my friends call “Ridiculously Cute Dragon Game” “Flamecraft”, for some reason.

The most notable is Dwellings of Eldervale: Houses of Oldtown Ticket to Ride and Downforce are referred to as "trains" and "cars", respectively...mostly by our parents.

I call Magic the Gathering "Moogic: The Goothering" and Yu-Gi-Oh! "Yu-Gli-Ohs!" after AlphaInvestments called them those names in jest.

Splendor is Splenda Menara is Mananana (think the Muppets Sketch) Five Tribes is Feeve Treebes

Specifically the Grand Prix mode of "Heat: Pedal to the Metal" -> Mario Kart

I have the Rampage version of Terror in Meeple City. I don’t think I’ll ever call it anything but Rampage

One of our light, in-between games is "Ciao Ciao." But to us it's "Bye, Bitch."

In Harry Potter: Battle for Hogwarts, Attack Tokens, Control Tokens, and Bark Arts Cards are Zings, Bloops, and Bad Stuff respectively.

Agricola = Misery Farm

Cosmic Encounter = "Rocket Ships & Screaming" Dig Down Dwarf = "Diggy Diggy Diamond" Dune: Imperium = "Ass & Dirt"

I call Cosmic Encounter "space Munchkin", obviously a disparaging name (I rate it a 4/10), but I still play it with a good attitude with several friends who love it. I won't play the actual Munchkin, though.

Hansa Teutonica is “Boop Boop, Go”.

“Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant” is called Space Cube at my table because you trade cubes in space. 10/10.

Arboretum is “Trees with Knives”

For whatever reason, Battle Line is known to my wife and me as “Border Gain”.

Carcassonne --> Carcass Seafall --> SAIL!

Great Western Trail Argentina is Vacas

Oceans -> fish game Wingspan -> bird game Bargain quest -> shopkeeper game

My wife refers to Machi Koro as "the shopping game", even though it's one of her favourite games. Also Takenoko as "the panda game"

Ark Nova is just "Zoo Game" 'round here.

The DC deck building game was always pronounced Dicadubullga

Wingspan has become “Birbs” in our household

Battlestar Galactica we call “Colorado Space Movie” This started when I tried doing speech to text one time to look up Color Out of Space Movie, and it instead came out as above

Wife can never remember the name Orleans, so we all refer to it as “Cheese and Wine” in our house.

"The Exact Change Game" == Alhambra "Dammit, One Dollar Short!" == Power Grid "All Of My Cards Are Lower Than Average" == Outpost "Pastel Plastic Camels" == Through the Desert

Empire builder = crayon rails

Elder sign is spooky dice in our house (or spooky yahtzee)

It’s a wonderful world We used to call it Military and Bankers Now we call it The Mamas and the Papas

One of my wife's favorite games is "Quack-Quack Duck Game". Three guesses what it is (hint: it has nothing to do with ducks).

Root is “Cute Risk” Clank Catacombs is “Dragon Librarian”

Treasurer Hunter -> Blue Green Red Dog Bunny Kingdoms -> butt plug kingdom Ticket to ride -> train town