Play your favorite gift swap game virtually
Delight your colleagues, friends and family with an affordable, fun and easy way to celebrate the holidays when you can’t be together.
Planning your virtual holiday party is simple.
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Set your date and time, select any custom rules for how you like to play White Elephant, and send out your invitations.
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Before the exchange starts, participants can easily submit a gift by linking to a product online from any major retailer; we’ll grab the name and photo automatically.
If you’d rather manage the gifts for all players yourself, we have an option for that too!
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Our platform works with any video conferencing tool, such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet!
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We keep things simple with an end-of-game summary and multiple options for gift distribution, including a few that don’t require players to share their addresses.
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Easy to setup
With just a few clicks you can have your gift exchange up and running. Have a more complicated exchange to run? Our platform can handle that, too.
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Affordable
If budget is an issue we’ve got you covered with straight-forward pricing that comes in at a fraction of the cost of other virtual events. And we’re always free for small groups of family & friends.
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Fun + Memorable
You can guarantee that everyone will be talking about this event long after the last gift has been exchanged. It’s engaging, entertaining and the perfect way to bring your group together.
Join the thousands of companies that bring their teams together using White Elephant Online
White Elephant, Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa?
Whatever you call it, we’ve got you covered.
Frequently Asked Questions
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White Elephant is a simple gift-swapping game played by millions of people each year. Each participant brings a gift, is assigned a random number, and then one at a time each person either unwraps a new gift, or steals a gift from someone else. The game is finished when everyone has a gift. The simple formula results in a truly fun and memorable experience.
Learn more about how to play white elephant.
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We’ve built a platform to play online! Instead of buying a gift, wrapping it, and bringing it to the party, you can now join a virtual event with all of your co-workers, friends or family. In the virtual event you submit a gift online before the big day, and then on the day of the event you all jump on a video call to unwrap gifts virtually. The system controls the order of play and allows players to swap and steal to their hearts content! At the end of the event we let everyone know who won their gift so you can coordinate delivery.
For companies, we also offer options to manage your participants and their gifts yourself as the Game Admin.
For a complete rundown of how to play check out our White Elephant Rules.
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Yes! Our platform will work globally. The main consideration would be the shipping of the gifts. The actual purchasing and shipping of gifts happens outside our platform, on the original retailer website. As long as everyone submits from a retailer that ships internationally, then it will work fine. Amazon is usually a safe bet, but it does depend on your specific circumstances. For more thoughts and recommendations on this topic, check out our blog post about hosting an international exchange.
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You won’t actually purchase gifts on our website. When you join a game you will need to submit a gift in order to play. This just means that you need a link from any item on any website. If you have a gift at home with you already that's fine too - you will just upload a photo of it.
When the gifts are "unwrapped" during the game, we will display the name and photo of the gift for everyone to see. After the game is over and you know who won your awesome gift, you can go ahead and purchase from the retailer and have it shipped directly to the winner.
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Yes! We’ve built tools in our ‘Standard’ package to do just this. Players don’t even have to signup. You can create ‘Dummy Players’ that show in the game, and manage all the gifts. Your team can just join the video call when it’s time and have a blast!
Read more about the solution on our support site here.
