White Elephant Wheel

The White Elephant wheel draws the turn order for a White Elephant gift swap, where going last is the best seat, so the order is the one thing everyone wants drawn fairly.

Replace the placeholders with everyone's names, turn on "Remove after spin", and spin once per person. The order the names come off the wheel is the order people take their turns.

The order matters more in White Elephant than in almost any other party game. The first person opens a gift with nothing to steal. The last person sees every opened gift on the table and can take whichever one they want. Drawing numbers from a hat works, but someone always ends up holding the hat and someone always suspects them. On a screen everyone can see, the draw is over in a minute.

The usual rules, in case your group has not agreed any: on your turn, either open a wrapped gift from the pile or steal an opened gift from someone else. Someone whose gift is stolen takes a turn straight away, opening a new gift or stealing a different one, but not stealing back the gift just taken from them. A gift is frozen after its third steal and stays with whoever holds it. Many groups give the first player one last turn at the end, since they never had the chance to steal.

Say the steal limit and the price limit out loud before the first gift is opened. For a version where wrapped gifts move around the circle, try the gift exchange wheel.