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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 ...
A white elephant at the Amarapura Palace in 1855. A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage, it is a metaphor used to describe an object, construction project, scheme, business venture ...
White Elephant is a holiday 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 ...
When party time arrived, less than an hour into the evening, the group of friends began the white elephant game. Throughout the night, Vecchio tells PEOPLE she kept a close eye on the clock to ...
Is this correct? I read a different story in the idioms section of the answers.com white elephant article. It seems a bit more likely. Cableray 17:34, 27 December 2005 (UTC)CRW . Three different articles give different origins to the phrase: White Elephant, White elephant (pachyderm) and White elephant gift exchange. It would be good to get a ...
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 ...
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 ...