This Wednesday December 18, 2019 we will celebrate our 9th annual Dirty Santa Gift Exchange. Each player will bring a wrapped gift ($15-$25 value). If you can afford it, bring a second wrapped gift in case someone shows up that doesn’t know about topic.
Dirty Santa Rules
In its most basic form, the game play is as follows.
Each participant supplies one wrapped gift. Suggested value $15-$25.
Participants determine in what order they will take turns choosing gifts.
The first person opens a wrapped gift and the turn ends.
On subsequent turns, each person gets the choice of “stealing” any unwrapped item or choosing a wrapped one from the gift pile.
When a player’s gift is stolen, they can choose to steal an opened gift or select a replacement gift from the pile of wrapped presents.
Each turn ends when a gift is unwrapped.
The game is over when the last person has taken their turn (but see variations below).
Since the process of stealing can prolong the game and can give distinct disadvantages to certain places in the order of play, different variations have arisen.
- A certain gift may be particularly sought after, prolonging the game (almost indefinitely). To address this, two related variations have been widely adopted:
- First, no gift may be stolen more than once per turn. However, this gives a distinct advantage to the final participant.
- Because of this, a second common variation states that after a gift has been stolen a certain number of times it is “frozen” (or “dead” or “safe”) and cannot be stolen again.
- a person can not steal back the gift that was just taken from them.
- Since the first player is the only one without the option of seeing any unwrapped gifts, some variations allow this player to take one final turn after all gifts have been opened and swap with any “unfrozen” gift.
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