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In light of recent events (mainly weather tomorrow) and at the request of our favorite Kilt Wearing, Ragnastock Wild Card, we will be "Santa-ing" this game up!
Bring your Santa Hats, Grinch Faces, Holiday Armadillos, Walz Brass and come ready to jingle your bells!
For those of you who were doing the "yankee swap" (whatever the hell that is), feel free to do so on the 10th.
Jonnydread can have the honor to post up the rules
For those of you who were doing the "yankee swap" (whatever the hell that is), feel free to do so on the 10th.
The Yankee Swap, also going by Yankee Doodle or Dirty Santa, adds an element of excitement and humor to traditional gift giving.
In Yankee Swap, each participant brings a wrapped, unmarked gift and places it in a designated area. Guests are given numbers as they arrive, or their names are randomly drawn, and they select and unwrap gifts from the pile in that order β with a twist.
The person who receives the number 1 will pick a gift (that is not their own) from the pile and open it for all to see (or models it, reads it, or demos it). During the selection of a wrapped gift, the participant may visually inspect the gifts, pick them up and/or gently shake them.
The person who receives number 2 then chooses a gift and opens it, and then must decide whether to keep it or swap it for the first playerβs gift. Each person in order then gets to select a present, open it and decide whether to keep it or swap it for any other gift someone has already opened.
Opening of gifts and swapping takes place until all the presents have been chosen. Finally, the person who picked first gets to choose from all the gifts or keep what he/she has already received. In the end, the gift you are holding is the gift you take home.
I'm bummed that the Santa shootout is canceled but I'm happy that we have this day at extreme as a consolation prize. We may end up having more people for the Yankee Swap this way as well!
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