Comments on: Tips for throwing a White Elephant holiday party

By: Dot

Dot — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:48:34 +0000

Dave:
It’s been a while since I’ve done a big one using those rules, but I think the way we used to do it was:

You get #11:
You can either take #11 gift or steal from someone. That person has the choice of now either taking gift #11 (rather than a random table gift), or stealing from someone else.
So if they choose to open new, they get gift 11, if not, THEY steal, and the person they stole from takes either gift 11, or they steal. And so on until someone opens gift 11.

Then you move on to 12.

Make sense?
Sorry for the delay, hope this reaches you in time, as you didn’t leave an email addy!

Dot

By: Dave-O

Dave-O — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:50:50 +0000

i am planning a WEGE for a very large group (60+ people). your other WEGE article here on Dabbled said:

“…Alternate rules for big groups: … reducing the steals to 2 and labeling each gift with a number. Each person must receive the gift with their number (if they chose to not steal), rather than picking a gift. This saves time on the initial gift choosing. Everything else continues as normal….”

OK if my number is say 11, when my turn comes I can either choose gift #11 or steal (that’s pretty clear). What happens to gift #11 if i steal?Is gift #11 swapped with the person I’ve stolen from? Does it sit on the table to the side where those that have had gifts stolen can choose from if they choose not to steal?

Thanks in advance.
Dave-O

By: Dave-O

Dave-O — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:48:45 +0000

BTW, my WEGE is on 1/28/11 in the evening so I hoping for a rapid response on this.
Many thanks in advance…
Dave-O