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White Elephant Gift Exchange

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White Elephant Gift Exchange

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Hey All, with the holiday season coming up I was talking with a few others about doing either gift exchange or a white elephant, white elephant was the popular choice. I am looking at places to hold the event and open to ideas about where we could gather. A little information about what the event is and the rules are below.

Info: A white elephant gift exchange, or Dirty Santa is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to give or acquire a genuinely valuable or highly sought item

Rules: Each participant supplies one wrapped gift, usually of similar value or any value. The gifts are placed in a central location and participants determine in which order (often by numbers randomly drawn prior to the start of the game) they will take turns selecting a gift. The first person opens a wrapped gift and the turn ends. On subsequent turns, each person has the choice to either unwrap a new present or to steal another's. When a person's gift is stolen, that person can either choose another wrapped gift to open or can steal from another player.

Each gift can only be stolen a specified number of times per game (two is common, which means the third holder of the gift keeps it). The game is over when everyone has a present

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