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Secret Santa

Everybody gives to exactly one person and receives from exactly one person, and nobody draws their own name. Reveal the pairs one at a time so each person can look away while the others see theirs.

The pairs

Press Draw

The group

Three people or more. Two people can only give to each other, which is not a secret.
One pair per line, separated by a comma — for couples who already buy each other presents.
The occasion
How to show it
Pass it round shows one person at a time: whoever you draw is the next to look, and round it goes until it comes back to the first.

Nobody draws themselves

The draw is a single loop through everybody: Anna gives to Bao, Bao gives to Chi, and the last person gives back to Anna. That guarantees one giver and one receiver each, with no self-draws and no pair quietly left out.

Keeping two people apart re-draws until the loop satisfies it, and says so if what you asked for is impossible.

Passing one screen around

With names hidden, each row shows only the giver until it is tapped, so the laptop can go round the table without anybody seeing more than their own.

Nothing is emailed and nothing is stored on a server: if you close the tab before writing the pairs down, they are gone.

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