Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Christmas Party Game

Whether it's for work or for a church group or with friends Christmas parties happen. At most Christmas parties there is some type of gift exchange.

Here is a new game (at least it's new to me) that is a lot of fun to play. It can change up your Christmas party gift exchange.

I don't think there is a name for it so I call it Stealing Christmas.

How to play:
  • Everyone needs to bring 5 wrapped gifts that cost no more than a $1 each. They can also bring junk from home if they don't want to spend the $5 bucks.
  • Once you are ready to play put the gifts in the middle of the room and circle up around the gifts.
  • You will need 4 dice and a two containers to roll the dice in. Small plastic containers work fine. The container helps the dice not roll all over the room.
  • When you say go the two people that have the dice roll them into their container. If they roll a 7 or 11 they get to pick out a present from the pile. If they roll a double they get to roll again.
  • After they roll they pass the container with the dice to the person next to them. The next person rolls and continues the process.
  • The game moves quick because of the two sets of dice.
  • Once all of the presents have been collected everyone gets to open their gifts.
  • Now this is where the fun begins. Set a timer for 5 minutes and start the game over. This time if someone rolls a 7 or 11 they can steal one gift from someone else. If they roll a double they get to roll again.
  • At the end of the five minutes if anyone doesn't have a single gift then they get to steal one gift from someone else.
  • It's a fast paced game and a lot of fun!

Do you have a favorite Christmas party game?

2 comments:

  1. HEy Rob, Yea I have had...Statcounter since I started the blog! I do have that going, but you are right...read more write less and comment more!

    Thanks

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  2. Stealing Christmas is fine if that's what you want to call it, but we've always called it the dice game.

    As a side note, if you have more people, ad more dice. We played this year with 3 sets and I think I liked it better. I've also thought about having each person bring less gifts, but maybe 4 $5 gifts or maybe 3 $5 gifts and one $10 gifts to get the quality of gifts to go up... These are just thoughts I've been having on improving "stealing Christmas" or the dice game.

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