The worst app name. Ever.

Sometimes app developers will send me PR releases hoping I review their apps (thus increasing their sales). If I think it's a good app, or that my readers would like it, I do. Many times I don't, however. But I couldn't resist sharing this app with the rest of the world. Why? Not because it's a good app (I haven't even tried it), but because it is the worst-named app in the history of apps: Touch Teen Patti.

When I first read the name images of an app that featured photos the young and innocent teen Patti popped into my head. I imagined the Pedobears on the Chan sites going crazy over this app as they used their fingers to pinch and squeeze young teen Patti's various body parts. It wasn't just the name that caused me to shamelessly snicker like a thirteen year-old either. The PR release went on to contain a number of inadvertent, though sexually ambiguous, double entendres:

"Teen Patti recently featured in a movie of the same name."
"Teen Patti can be played with a minimum of 2 players but it's more fun with 4 or more players."
"The AI will challenge the players to an extreme and test not only your luck but your skills on the table."

If you don't know (or haven't guessed) by now, Teen Patti is actually an innocent Indian card game that's similar to poker. When the devs made it into an iPhone game they decided to (appropriately enough) throw "touch" into the title -- probably much to the alarm of Chris Hanson and to the hopes of Pedobears everywhere. To the dev who wanted me to do a review of this app -- sorry, but I'm not into card games. However, with a name like "Touch Teen Patti," if you want to increase your sales, all you have to do is post a link to your app on 4Chan and your numbers will go through the roof.

Commenters note that "Teen Patti" in Hindi translates as "three cards."

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MichaelEdits.com

Please tell me you're joking.

I've lived in Asia for over 10 years, so I know weird things happen with English here, but still...

July 30 2010 at 11:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

raviram

Hey Aakaash!!

Lighten up!! It DOES sound funny and even @AbhishekB who presumably authored the games sees it!!

Yes I am Indian and yes I think it's funny, and NO I don't think "lovely gadget weblogs are out to get Indians" ... next thing you'll be saying is "we invented the zero" so all the (well the non '1' ones anyway) bits belong to us!

Suggest you put the 'racist' card back in the cupboard and let's all smile and celebrate the foibles of our languages/cultures/sweat pants, etc etc!

Cheers

R

July 29 2010 at 7:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

aakaash

And while you are being all racist and making fun of our card games. Let's talk about some of yours.
Texas hold em poker. Hold what ? Can some one please tell me how this name isn't funny and actually makes sense.

July 29 2010 at 5:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Anup

Lighten up dude!

You're barking up the wrong tree. I'm followed TUAW for years, and never read anything remotely racist! They make fun of Steve Jobs and our (Touch) Teen Patti in equal measure. Let's just call it... eh... a sense of humour.

Cheers.

July 29 2010 at 11:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

aakaash

Wow hate the iPad spell check. I mean Texas holdem poker.and the second
Iine sixth word is practically.

July 29 2010 at 5:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

aakaash

Wow, another lovely gadget weblog out to get Indians. Why the hell do you have to even comment about our games. If you are not interested in reviewing then by all means don't.
Just some facts. Without us(Indians) practical all your blogs would be useless. The brains behind some of the biggest products in intel, apple, Microsoft, sun, etc are Indians then why the he'll are you always out to get indians ? Perhaps, it's jealousy.

Also, please note Texas was actually made centuries later. Teen patti or flash is one of indias oldest card games.

TUAW and Engadget are nothing disgusting racist blogs.

July 29 2010 at 5:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AbhishekB

Yes, language can be fun. What surprised me though was how the app description could be taken out of context:

* "Teen Patti recently featured in a movie of the same name."

There indeed was a movie with the same name featuring Amitabh Bachchan and Sir Ben Kingsley back in February this year :-).

July 29 2010 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

willyu34

i... uhh... never thought I would one day see pedobear on this blog...

lol.

July 29 2010 at 1:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rever

Just love the image and love the translation. :')

July 29 2010 at 1:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

robogobo

um, ok sicko.

July 29 2010 at 12:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ned

Sorry to be a pedant, but I believe the plural of Pedobear has no apostrophe.

:)