There are many ways to do a Yankee Swap. This is the version we played today. A Yankee swap is a fun event when everyone brings a gift. The gifts are put into a pile and everyone gets a number. #1 picks first, this is the best position because after everyone has picked #1 can pick any gift. #2 is the worst position because #2 picks and then can only chose from #1. So you kind of want to be near the end or #1. So each person picks a gift and unwraps it and then decides if they want to take someone else’s gift (There are variations where a person must take someone else’s gift or pick and unwrapped gift but they cannot pick a gift unwrap it and then decide on the gift that they want.) So we had 10 people in all. The gifts are set at a price point of $15.00. Many popular gifts are gift cards and scratch tickets. I don’t know why scratch tickets are so popular, in my mind giving someone a scratch ticket is the same as giving them nothing, I want a gift I know is already something not the possibility of something. Anyway, the great fun is the gag gifts that people buy and how they get passed from one person to another and then there are the hot gifts that exchange hands a lot as well. A good mix of good gifts and gag gifts makes for a very fun time. We are having a family party on the 30th and we will do a Yankee Swap, my dad is supplying all the gifts from stuff around the house. It should prove to be a very fun time.