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This is a fun and exciting way to exchange gifts. Each person brings a wrapped unmarked gift. (We usually have a $$ limit-ex. $5.00) Or you can bring white elephants gifts for added fun. Everyone sits in a cirlce and the gifts are placed in a pile in the middle of the circle. Write nimbers from 1-??, depending on the number of gifts, on small pieces of paper. Do not number the gifts. Fold papers and place them in a hat or some other container.
Each person randomly picks a paper (number) from the hat. Start with the
person holding number 1. He/she picks a gift and opens it. Number two can either pick a gift from the pile or take the gift from number one. Number one then chooses a wrapped gift from the pile and opens it. Number three can either take a gift from numbers 1 or 2 or pick one from the pile to open. . There is no limit on the number of gifts one person can open if others continue to take the gift they have opened. Each gift can only change hands three times through out the game. The person with the gift on the third exchange keeps it. Each person ends up with only one gift. You may end up with the same gift you brought.
You may also play this game without opening the gifts til the end when
everyone has a gift in hand and all the exchanging is over. It's not only funny to see people vie for a gift when they don't even know what is actually in the package but also when the gift is opened..
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