QUESTION DPF White Elephant Gift Exchange 2024?
I should be able to facilitate a zoom session, if that might make things easier/quicker?I was washing the dishes and thinking about the logistics of this exchange.
We could do it like a traditional White Elephant exchange.
1. Each player provides one wrapped gift to contribute to a common pool. You'll take a photo of your wrapped gift and mail me the jpeg. I will then post a picture of all the gifts which will give us our 'common pool'.
2. I will have a MOD do a random assignment of numbers to determine what order we play in.
3. The first player selects a gift from the pool and I will open it for them and post a picture of the contents.
4. The following players can choose to either pick an unwrapped gift from the pool or steal a previous player’s gift. Anyone who gets their gift stolen in this way can do the same – choose a new gift or steal from someone else.
To keep things moving along, there are a couple of limits on gift swapping:
5. After all players have had a turn, the first player gets a chance to swap the gift they are holding for any other opened gift. Anyone whose gift is stolen may steal from someone else (as long as that person hasn’t been stolen from yet). When someone declines to steal a gift, the game comes to an end.
- A present can only be stolen once per turn, which means players who have a gift stolen from them have to wait to get it back.
- After three swaps, the turn automatically comes to an end (otherwise things could drag on for a long time).
Note that for this last “extra” turn, the three-swap rule doesn’t apply. Players can keep swapping until someone decides to stand pat, or there are no other eligible people to steal from.
Once all the swapping is done, I'll email a list of who is sending their gift to who. I'll private message each of you with the address of your recipient.
OR
We can simply know who is getting our gift by doing a secret Santa type exchange where random partners are put together.
SameI would try it, but I would have to have someone tell me my options, because I would forget.
I would try it, but I would have to have someone tell me my options, because I would forget.
Hmmm, yeah, I can see how that might get confusing.Same
That might be fun actually!I should be able to facilitate a zoom session, if that might make things easier/quicker?
This is also what I was initially thinking. The "White Elephant" pin could even be tailored to the recipients wants - like the "one mans trash is another's treasure" concept. So maybe we make it a straight exchange and have it be a two pin package - "White Elephant and Golden Egg" type of thing.I'm interested; though I think it might be nice to have it in two parts: we do the initial exchange virtually, and once you know who you're sending your White Elephant pin to, you send an additional pin in the package that is tailored to their wants/collections, or at least something that you've put some thought into. Then we're not just all exchanging and receiving unwanted pins, lol!
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