Draw the order, pick the rules and run the game on a phone or a TV: whose turn it is, which gifts are frozen and who can steal from whom.
White elephant, also called Yankee swap or Dirty Santa (and amigo ladrão in Brazil), is a gift exchange where everyone brings one wrapped present and, on their turn, either opens a new gift or steals one that is already open. Typical generators only hand out a number. This tool runs the game: it draws the order with the browser secure random generator, shows whose turn it is, disables illegal moves and says why, counts the steals on each gift and freezes the ones that hit the limit. There are three presets (classic with 3 steals, Yankee swap with 2, and Brazilian house rules) and you can adjust the steal limit, the maximum steals per turn and the final swap. With 10 players there are 3,628,800 possible orders, all equally likely. The game picks up where it left off if the page reloads, and big-screen mode makes the type huge for casting to a TV.
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Everyone brings one wrapped gift, players draw numbers for turn order, and on your turn you either open a new gift or steal one that is already open. A player whose gift was stolen then opens a new gift or steals from someone else. The game ends when all gifts are open and no steals remain, and the first player gets a final chance to swap.
Add at least 2 people to draw the order.