What do you call this game?

mrsterry · October 2008

I'm typing up the invitations for our Christmas party and I'm trying to come up with the name for the game that we always play. I just don't know what to call it (it's called so many different things).

I call it the White Elephant Gift Exchange...

Where everyone brings a gift and then one by one a person opens a gift and then they have the chance to keep what they got or exchange it with a gift that another person already got, etc.

What do you call it?

MrsSledge · October 2008

white elephant gift exchange. I didn't know there was any other name.

HisBetterHalf · October 2008

We call it Yankee Swap

kjlrs · October 2008

white elephant implies a sort of gag gift i'm pretty sure - is it cheesy, silly gifts or actual nice things?

we do the same type of gift exchange at our annual office xmas party (with "nice" gifts) and i think the invite is written something like "Gift exchange. $20 limit. Guys bring a guy gift, gals bring a gal gift" because we do them separate gender for some reason.