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**Please be aware that you are not required to participate in the white elephant gift exchange, but the more the merrier!  A PVO sponsored meal will be served, so please plan to attend even if you don't participate in the gift exchange!**A White Elephant Gift Exchange is a popular holiday event where people "compete" to walk away with the best present. It also goes by Yankee Swap, Dirty Santa, and a plethora of other names. Here are the basic rules:1. Each player brings one wrapped gift to contribute to a common pool. Your gift should be no more than $20 in value. It can be a "gag" gift, a re-gift that someone gave you at one point which you did not like, or a serious one. It is up to you!2. Players draw numbers to determine what order they will go in.3. Players sit in a circle or line where they can see the gift pile.4. The first player selects a gift from the pool and opens it. Make sure everyone can see the gift!5. The following players can choose to either pick an unwrapped gift from the pool or steal a previous player’s gift. Anyone who gets their gift stolen in this way can do the same – choose a new gift or steal from someone else. To keep things moving along, there are a couple of limits on gift swapping: A present can only be stolen once per turn, which means players who have a gift stolen from them have to wait to get it back. After three swaps, the turn automatically comes to an end (otherwise things could drag on for a long time).6. After all players have had a turn, the first player gets a chance to swap the gift he or she is holding for any other opened gift. Anyone whose gift is stolen may steal from someone else (as long as that person hasn’t been stolen from yet). When someone declines to steal a gift, the game comes to an end.