The Right Christmas Office Gift Exchanges Games of All Times

Is it difficult to think of just a few of the exciting gift exchange games for the office during any seasons at all? Popular games that are often played by office people include the secret Santa and white elephant gift exchanges. The reason behind its popularity is due to the fun and excitement attached to the games and therefore, the essence of playing these gift exchange games would be to set forth the clear rules of games.

As far as office games are concerned, the Secret Santa games have been so popular that many varieties and variations have been added to them. For a fun twist, one of the most interesting variations of it involves all participants making a wish list for the Santa known as the Santa list. The way of going about it would be to specify a dollar limit on the present to be exchanged and the items that are written down in the respective participants Santa lists must contain of items that are available at that dollar limit or less.

All the Santa lists will be stored in a hat or box so that each participant will have to draw out a list and get ready to do shopping for that person. While the recipients of the gifts will not know who will be shopping for their lists, the participant (shopper) will know the person (recipient) whom they will be shopping for. The Secret Santa must make sure that they remain secretive when delivering the gift to the recipients in the office on that very day. The decision maker of the games can either decide to allow the participant to sign or initial on the gift or not to leave any traces at all. While the former will create a sense of anonymity among one another, the person choosing the latter may sign off the gift if they like to get and send thank-you messages to one another for their gifts.

White elephant gift exchange has been one of the most popular office games ever when it comes to gift exchanges for all festive celebrations. Every game varies depends on the size of the office and the numbers of participants involved. The general rule provides that each participant to purchase a gift of certain value which may be decided beforehand by the departmental head. The theme of the gift should be fun and of entertaining value. Therefore, an item which is particularly predictable and too practical is not an ideal.

In this gift exchange game, every participant will receive a number which is equivalent to the number of one of the gifts brought by all participants for that game. This number will be drawn out among all others from a box, hat or something else used to contain these numbers. The game, therefore, starts with person who draws out the lucky number 1 who initiates by picking a present for him or herself. After opening the present, he or she can retain it but every opened gift in the rules of this game will be subject to stealing by other participants. When it comes to the person who draws number 2, there are two options lying in front for this second person. He or she can either steal away the first present from the first person or choose to open a different gift. Bear in mind that all opened gifts even though can be potentially stolen by anyone; these gifts can only be stolen up to maximum of three times. The participants should therefore be advised to think twice before opening the gift unless they are very sure that they do not wish to steal other gifts and make the decision to retain their choices of gift. As every participant proceeds to their turns in the game, each of them will receive a gift after all their turns.

The first person to open the gift will be the last person who has the chance to steal a gift they wish for at the end of the game as he or she is not accorded with such a chance earlier in the gift exchange.

In this game there's always one gift that everyone wants and will steal over and over again. What makes it fun is trying to figure out who is going to get the most coveted gift. In some cases, people can end up with the gift they brought.

The purpose for the white elephant game is to give opportunity for people to regift something which they receive from other people but which they do not want or like to keep. Therefore, there can be options opening for the participants whether to bring something that they wish to regift or to purchase a new gift with a predetermined value.