white elephant gift exchange

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Have you ever played the popular holiday party game?

White elephant gift exchange is such a fun game!

I like the game.

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I love this game too!

We always set a rule that we don't spend any more that a certain amount of X dollars.
 
The white elephant game known as the Yankee swap.

THE GIFTS:

1. This party's gift theme is XYZ.
2. The gift should be valued as close to $xx.00 as is reasonable.
3. The gift should be something someone would actually want or use. It should be in new or good condition.
4. The gift should be wrapped or in an envelope before arriving to the party. Gift bags are OK only if a wrapped item is inside.
5. Gift certificates are OK only if it is accompanied by some other item as part of the gift. For instance, a $xx Starbucks gift certificate, by itself, is not OK, but a $yy Starbucks gift certificate together with a coffee mug is OK.
6. As guests arrive to the party, the gifts should be placed in an area where few people can see who brought which gift. All efforts should be made to hide who brought which gift.

THE GAME:

1. Each guest who wishes to participate must contribute a gift. Everyone sits or stands in roughly a circle around the pile of gifts.
2. Prepare slips of paper equal to the number of gifts with clearly written numbers. Be sure to distinguish 6 from 9, 1 from 7. Each participating guest draws a number and holds onto that slip of paper.
3. On the first turn, the guest with paper slip #1 chooses a gift, opens it, and all admire it.
4. On the second turn, the guest with paper slip #2 gets the choice of "stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's) or choosing a wrapped one. If #2 steals #1's gift, then #1 must open a wrapped gift.
5. On the third turn, the guest with paper slip #3 gets the choice of "stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's or #2's) or choosing a wrapped one.
The game continues based on the following:

1. If a gift is stolen from you, you can steal a gift (within limits, described below), or open a wrapped one.
2. The turn proceeds until a wrapped gift is chosen.
3. A gift cannot be immediately stolen back from the guest who just stole it.
4. The fourth "owner" of a gift gets to keep it. The gift is "dead" after it has been stolen three times.
5. "Owners" of "live" gifts must keep them visible and hold them up when requested.
6. The gift exchange ends when the last wrapped gift is opened. Usually, guests are encouraged to perpetuate the gift stealing as long as there are "live" gifts, but no one is obligated to do this.

Have a Happy Holiday season!

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Our Sunday school class plays this game every Christmas time at our annual social. We've never used gift cards though.

We limit the number of times the gifts can be swapped so the game won't go on forever.

Some years we have a theme for the gifts. A couple years ago, we did an "ugly necktie" theme for the men.
 
It's fun and sometimes I bring extras in to compensate for the lousy ones....
 
Thanks, mrs bucket. It will be my first time to host a small x mas party with that kind of game. I have an intruction already but your instruction is still good to add up in my instruction list. lol. my hubby has a sharp mind than I am. :o I loved the game.

I only ask for under 5 bucks that would be challenage to find a gift. LOL
 
Reba said:
Our Sunday school class plays this game every Christmas time at our annual social. We've never used gift cards though.

We limit the number of times the gifts can be swapped so the game won't go on forever.

Some years we have a theme for the gifts. A couple years ago, we did an "ugly necktie" theme for the men.
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Awesome. I have heard about ugly necktie but i m not sure what does it do. haha
 
Did play that game at my oldest brother's place for Ukrainian Xmas last year.. I bet we will do this game again this year unless otherwise somewhere...
 
At my old office in Missouri, we used to do this with the agency wide Christmas in-service meeting/Christmas party and luncheon. We always would have the rule that a gift could not be stolen more then twice. We were dealing with 200 people every year. It was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed it.
 
I love that game. Last time I did that was 2 years ago. My hubby got a fancy poker game out of it. I got a neat candle in which I can change the theme of it following the holidays all year round. :)
 
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deafbajagal said:
I am always tempted to bring a fruitcake to one of those parties. lol
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Give it to sharky LMAO
 
My family plays this game every Christmas Eve. I think I have given away the same ugly dish for 3 years now :giggle:
 
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