Sullivan giving the introduction in Balderdash, But With REAL COMMENTS.
Episodes of House Rules are usually introduced with a tagline describing what they do to the game, usually injuring or insulting it in the process. Over time, it has started to link to the house rule in a similar fashion to the first rule of Board Game Club.
The table below documents every one of these introductions, including any references or additional notes.
| Episode | Where we take a classic board game and... | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Guess Who, But With VIBES Only | N/A | This was not part of the House Rules series yet and so we don't have a House Rules introduction. |
| Jenga, But With Increasingly Bigger Gloves | ... play them in a stupid way. | |
| Connect 4 With BLINDFOLDS (And Thumbtacks) | ... mess with it. | |
| Battleship, But Drink a Shot EVERY TURN | ... break its legs. | This was the first episode with the animated icon. |
| Twister, But WEARING HANDCUFFS | ... break them. We kick them to death. | |
| Trivial Pursuit, But WRONG ANSWERS ONLY | ... punch its dad! | Adam literally punches the box for the game, revealing equipment hidden behind it. |
| Scrabble, But RUDE WORDS ONLY | ... give it a wedgie in front of its friends. | |
| Candy Land, BUT SOMEHOW WORSE | ... we deck it! | This is a Christmas episode - the 'deck' may have been intentional. |
| Operation, But With REAL ELECTRIC SHOCKS! | ... pants it in front of its mum. | |
| Chess, But HORSES ONLY | ... look at its shoes and shout 'What are those?'. | A lovely cinematic opening for this video. |
| Pictionary, But IMPOSSIBLE MODE | ... sneeze in its soup. | |
| Game Of Life, But WORST. LIFE. EVER | ... instill crippling debt in it from birth. | The first introduction linking to the house rule of the game. |
| Snakes & Ladders, BUT ONLY SNAKES | ... pull the ladder out from underneath it. | The game Snakes & Ladders, you will be surprised to hear, has ladders as a core part of game mechanics. |
| Monopoly, But COMMUNIST | N/A | No tagline due to Dom Stalin's entrance being the main event. |
| Yahtzee, But With LYING | ... we break into its house while it's sleeping and ever so slightly rearrange the furniture so it thinks it's going mad. | |
| Monopoly, But COMMUNIST 2 | N/A | A part of the Communopoly series and so does not have a House Rules tagline. |
| Buckaroo, But Upside Down | ... sell them on to be made into glue. | Historically, glue was made from horse hooves and bones. |
| Balderdash, But With REAL COMMENTS | ... we leave it mean comments so the creators lose their self-esteem. | |
| Articulate, But TAKE SOME DIRECTION!! | ... we tell them to 'yes - and...' until they cry. |