Put a limit on swaps: Every White Elephant game has one desirable gift that makes its way to almost ... Extra swapping: Change up the swapping rules. Try forcing players who have been stolen ...

Put a limit on swaps: Every White Elephant game has one desirable gift that makes its way to almost every player. Raise the stakes a little by making a rule that a gift can be swapped only a finite ...

"Perhaps you can go into future white-elephant gift exchanges with lower expectations," an expert suggested after reading the dilemma.

A woman says one of her friends brought a cheap gift to a white elephant exchange — knowing she'd leave with something much better. In a Reddit post, the woman shares that her friend group ...

Melcher explains that at her holiday party, the office held a white elephant gift exchange with strict rules: a thirty-dollar spending limit on gifts, and a three-steal limit. Surprising the whole ...

The first person picks a white elephant gift from the pile, unwraps it and their turn ends. The following players can either decide to unwrap another gift and claim it as their own, or steal a gift ...

Quality presents are key at a white elephant gift exchange. Sure, you could always show up with something random from your junk drawer and call it a gift, but these fun (and functional) white elephant ...