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↓ TranscriptPanel 1:
In a Yankee Swap, participants each buy a gift, wrap it, and place it in the pile.
We see a pile of gifts.
Panel 2:
Then the first player takes a gift, unwraps it, and decides if they want to keep it, or gamble and exchange it for a different wrapped present.
Chloe unwraps a present.
Chloe: Oh, how lovely. A bit of yarn.
Fitzgerald: That's from me!
Panel 3:
The next player can then choose to take the first player's gift, or take a new one from the pile.
Bink: Gimme that gryphon plushie!
Mike: Don't take George! We only just met! (he clutches his gryphon plushie)
Panel 4:
It's a good idea to set price limits on the gifts.
Lisa: A retina display Macbook Pro?
Bink: The rest of you are a bunch of cheapskates!
Chloe: They don't gold farm.
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We’ve always called it a White Elephant exchange, although I think in general that refers to something else. And with about 40 people generally participating it can get kind of interesting.
We just called it a gift swap
Yeah, I didn’t realize it has an actual name. We just call it the solstice gift exchange, since that’s when we do it.
We open stuff before deciding whether to swap, but this sounds like an interesting variant to try.
I’ve never heard of a Yankee Swap before, but your rules describe a White Elephant gift exchange perfectly. Hey, the wikipedia article does indeed list Yankee Swap as one of the many names. Look at that.
Our family calls it the Kutthroat Kris Kringle, except we unwrap the gift, -then- choose if we want to swap it for a previously opened gift.
We usually limit the number of times an item can be ‘stolen’ though.
Around here it’s called Dirty Santa.
I hear a lot of office parties do this. Great way to build working relationships.
Ha, my extended family would do this for Christmas. When we were really young, we’d draw names. Kids for kids, adults for adults. When the kids started getting older though, we just started doing the gift swap. Easier that way.
My extended family does this and we call it Dirty Santa. Except when we play, we limit the number of times a gift can be “stolen” to 3; after that, the gift is considered “dead”. And at the very end, the person that drew first gets the chance to “steal” from someone else. And yes, we do put a limit on gift cost. I have heard it called White Elephant only once before and had never heard the name Yankee Swap.
We call it “Dirty Santa” as well.
I’ve heard it as White Elephant and Dirty Santa.
I always heard this called a White Elephant Exchange.
Yeah, it’s called Yankee Swap only on the east coast of the US, as far as I can tell. We called it a White Elephant Exchange on the west coast where I grew up. And there’s various permutations of the rules, but always fun.