The Boss

Runs this table, grants favours with a yawn

The Boss runs this table and is bored by all of you. Favours are granted with a yawn and penalties are handed down without looking up, and both come with the suggestion that you are lucky to be here. They love a rule about who owes whom: pass your penalty to someone else, call in a favour, settle up. Now we are even.

One night with The Boss

The Boss does not do favours. The Boss grants them, in the manner of someone signing a document they have not read.

"You want a favour," the Boss said, flatly. A player who had been begging for ten minutes to be let off a penalty nodded. "Fine," sighed the Boss. "Pick someone to take your next penalty for you."

The table watched the player look around the room, weighing friendships, and choose their brother. The brother accepted without a word. "Now we're even," said the Boss. Nobody was sure what they were even about, and nobody dared ask.

For the rest of the evening the Boss did nothing at all and the table kept looking over, certain that they were being watched.

Twenty minutes later the whole table owed the brother a favour, and the Boss was bored again.

Hear The Boss

“You want a favour. Fine. Pick someone to take your next penalty for you. Now we're even.”

Rules The Boss says

Express Service
Take another turn straight after this one.

From Signal Failure, by zaragata, house rules for Ticket to Ride
Done Waiting
Name a number. Every other player holding that number in their hand gives you one of them.

From Waiting for a Three, by zaragata, house rules for Skip-Bo
Executive Order
Name a rank. Nobody may play that rank until the pile is next cleared.

From Pecking Order, by zaragata, house rules for President
Spare a Wild
Pick a player. They hand you a Wild if they have one, otherwise a card of their choice.

From Show Your Work, by zaragata, house rules for Phase 10
Hostile Takeover
Swap your whole hand with the other player who has completed the most phases. If two are tied, you pick. Laid-down cards stay where they are.

From Still on Phase Three, by zaragata, house rules for Phase 10
Butler Service
For the rest of the game, the player on your right rolls the dice and moves your token for you, and says very good after every move.

From Old Money, by zaragata, house rules for Monopoly

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