I'm the Boss! Fan Site

To make deals and earn a fortune, you need good connections with influential investors. By bringing the right people to the bargaining table, negotiating wisely, and offering them a piece of the action, you can amass millions and stand atop the business community. But watch out for competitors who will botch your handiwork with underhanded tricks in order to turn your potential deal into their personal profits!

Components

• 98 Influence cards
• 15 Deal cards
• 1 Game board
• 6 Investor placards
• 1 Marker
• 1 Rulebook

The Board

The gameboard shows 16 potential business deals. Each of these deals shows a number of dividends …

A game of creating and manipulating a deal so you can get the biggest piece of the action. If the cards don't go your way, spoil a deal and frustrate your opponents by turning the deal from a big profit into a big loss.

Through cunning deal-making, and favoring your "Cousins" (and by throwing in some guile and backstabbing too), acquire the most money to prove once and for all that you are "The Boss".

Components

• 96 Deal Cards in 3 colors
• 3 "X" Cards
• 6 multi-colored "Wild" POTA Cards
• 1 "Boss" and 2 "Cousin" Tokens
• 12 double sided "I'm In/Pass" Disks
• 1 "2X" Disk
• 90 Money Cards
• 1 Rulebook

Setup

Give each player two I'm In/Pass disks and $50 in money. Randomly determine the starting player and give that player the Boss token and the two Cousin tokens. The player with the Boss token is the Boss and the dealer in this round. …

You can use any or all of the following variants to customize I'm the Boss to your tastes. The first two variants are the ones most commonly adopted:

• The turn order does not change following the playing of a Boss card.

• A player who starts his turn with 10 or more Influence cards must try to make a deal on his turn, whether before or after the die roll.

• A player must be the Boss or have played a card in order to receive money from a deal. …