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A white elephant gift exchange, [1] Yankee swap [2] or Dirty Santa [3] [nb 1] is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during Christmas festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to give or acquire a genuinely valuable or highly sought-after item. [3]
White Elephant organizers could play the "dice game" variation, which incorporates a pair of die and a rules sheet created by the gift organizer. In this variation, players can select their ...
The white elephant gift exchange is also known as a "Yankee swap" or "dirty Santa," depending on where the host lives. In these games, everyone brings a wrapped gift to contribute to a shared pool ...
The gift-giving season is upon us, which means the return of a controversial holiday game: the White Elephant gift exchange. Whether you call it White Elephant, Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa, the ...
Deriving from a tradition, the ritual is known as Secret Santa in the United States and the United Kingdom; as Kris Kringel or Kris Kindle in Ireland; as Wichteln, Secret Santa, Kris Kringle, Chris Kindle or Engerl-Bengerl in parts of Austria; as Secret Santa or Kris Kringle in Canada and Australia; as Secret Santa, Kris Kringle, or Monito-Monita in the Philippines; as Angelito in the ...
White Elephant , an animal in the Persian epic poem the Shahnameh; White Elephant Butte, a mountain in Nevada, U.S. White elephant gift exchange, a holiday party game; White elephant sale, a sale of used items; Order of the White Elephant, a Thai honour; White Elephant Saloon, in the San Antonio Sporting District, Texas
White Elephant is a party game in which players bring wrapped gifts at a set price, such as $20. From there, they draw numbers and pick the gifts out one by one from the pile. They also have the ...
The phrase was attached to "white elephant swaps" and "white elephant sales" in the early twentieth century. [7] Many church bazaars held "white elephant sales" where donors could unload unwanted bric-à-brac, generating profit from the phenomenon that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" and the term has continued to be used in this ...