The Dirty Santa gift exchange, or Yankee Swap, is a popular party game played during the Christmas season in the United States. The objective of the game is for guests of a party to each contribute one gift to the game, and ultimately each guest walks away with one gift from the game. Along the way is a random drawing to determine the order in which players get to unwrap gifts or “steal” previously opened gifts.

(from Wikipedia)

I remember back when I was young and we used to go to my Aunt and Uncles for New Years. We would play many games for prizes or presents through the day and the one game that was somewhat fun but somewhat mean was our version of yankee swap called grabby game if I remember correctly. It got way to intesnse and competative over the years so it was finally taken out of the loop. My memories of it was the sad look on the younger kids faces when  a grown up took one of their presents. Suck it up kiddies, there is no crying in baseball and certainly not in yankee swap. Of course I am kidding and I do not really recommend this game for the holidays. If you don’t believe me check out how it went down on The Office.

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