Official White Elephant Explaination

Roxy2974
on 12/1/08 12:28 pm - Austell, GA

WHITE ELEPHANT GIFT EXCHANGE

Objective:	Open, exchange and steal inexpensive, fun gifts and hope your get something good!
Categories:	Christmas
Game type:	Passive. Little or no movement is required.
Players:	3 or more players.
Needed:	Everyone attending the party needs to bring a wrapped gift.
Rules:	Everyone brings a gift already wrapped. No one should know which gift you brought. Make up slips of paper with numbers on them and have each person draws a number. People choose gifts according the numbers that are drawn. To start, the person with #1 picks out a gift, opens it so all can see what it is. Then the person with #2 get to "steal" any unwrapped gift or chose from those not yet chosen and opened. Then person #3 gets to "steal" any already opened gift or chose one of the ones still unopened. This continues around the circle.
Rules:	The game continues with the following rules: A) If someone steals your gift, you can steal someone else's gift (see rules below) B) Continue until everyone has had a turn for a gift. A turn is ended when an unopened gift has been opened. C) A gift can only be "stolen" once during a turn. D) Once a gift has had 3 "owners" the 3rd owner of a gift gets to keep it, it can't be stolen again.
Ending the game:	After the last turn, the person who started (since he didn't get a chance at the beginning) can put back the gift and "steal" and gift according to the rules. This starts the gift exchange again (following the above rules) and ends when someone chooses or is forced to take the gift given up by the person with #1. For additional fun, you can go all the way around the circle again having people put back and "steal" gifts they want. Of course, you have to continue to follow the rules above. Make sure the rules are clear to everyone before starting the exchange.

Keek77
on 12/1/08 10:27 pm - Rome, GA

Lap Band on 06/29/09

This is also called Dirty Santa. We play this at my husband's family on Christmas Eve. It's lots of fun.

cake
on 12/1/08 10:53 pm - GA

Me likey.

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Keek77
on 12/1/08 11:23 pm - Rome, GA

Lap Band on 06/29/09

The only drawback to this game is that it gets very drawn out if there are a lot of people playing. I also like this one too though.. I wish I could come to the party, but I can't.

RIGHT/LEFT GAME

We have done a "right/left" game with all participants standing in a circle. Use the following story or make one up that is pertinent to your group using the words right and left often, each time the word is said the gift is passed that direction. Eg: "Mr. and Mrs. Right left for the country right as it began to snow. They left in a hurry and forgot the right directions etc." We adapted it to a hospital setting--possibilities are endless. At the end of the story, you keep the gift in your possession.

Christmas was almost here, and Mother RIGHT was finishing the Christmas baking.

Father RIGHT, Sue RIGHT, and Billy RIGHT returned from their last-minute Christmas errands.

"There's not much LEFT to be done," said Father RIGHT as he came into the kitchen.

"Did you leave the basket of food at church?" asked Mother RIGHT.

"I LEFT it RIGHT where you told me to," said Father RIGHT.

"I'm glad my shopping is done," said Billy RIGHT. "I don't have any money LEFT."

The hall telephone rang, and Susan RIGHT LEFT to answer it.

She rushed back and told the family "Aunt Tillie RIGHT LEFT a package for us RIGHT on Grandma RIGHT's porch.

I'll go over there RIGHT now and get it." she said as she LEFT in a rush.

Father RIGHT LEFT the kitchen and brought in the Christmas tree.

By the time Susan RIGHT returned, Mother RIGHT, Father RIGHT, and Billy RIGHT had begun trimming the tree.

The entire RIGHT family sang carols as they finished the decorating.

Then they LEFT all the presents arranged under the tree and went to bed, hoping they had selected the RIGHT gifts for their family.

Now I hope you have the RIGHT present for yourself, because that's all that's LEFT of our story.....

Except to wish you a Merry Christmas....Isn't that RIGHT?

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