I wrote these rules down because a few years ago, my office began to play Yankee Swap instead of Secret Santa. (Sometimes called White Elephant, or Dirty Santa). Growing up in Boyscouts, we used to play Yankee Swap for our annual Christmas party. It always went well with a bunch of 12 year olds, so Imagine my surprise when it went horrible wrong for my office party. The reason was immediately apparent, the people running the game were using some harebrained rules. (If someone takes your gift, you can take someone else's, and then they can take someone else's, etc, etc, etc.) The game would take forever, everyone was quite bored, since every turn consisted of everyone stealing the same present over and over. It got so bad they started making spot rules up. (Time limits, gifts can only be stolen once (This was the rule they were missing at the beginning, but by this point everyone was bored)) So I set out to find the rule set we used in Boyscouts. It works great for large g...