It was a good year for the Nakatomi Corporation, so to celebrate, we are hosting a large holiday party for all the employees. To kick off this party in style, everyone will receive a mystery gift. The only thing that sets your gift apart from all the others is a large number written in marker on the side of the box. Now, if you choose to keep and open your gift you can, otherwise you can take your luck and swap with another player. At the end of the phase, all gifts will be opened and your prize will be revealed.

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Player Gift List
1. Curtis
2. Nav Zersch
3. Ahoda TT
4. Sami
5. Stargate Farlig Nofo
6. Brian Zersch Nav
7. im317 Rodney
8. Zersch Brian
9. Gmaj
10. Jamie
11. Nofo Farlig
12. TT Ahoda
13. Kat
14. drrr
15. TIB
16. Farlig Stargate
17. Rodney im317
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In the style of a mystery White Elephant or Yankee Swap game, each player will have a chance to either open their gift (## Open Gift #X) or swap their gift one time with someone else who hasn't already opened their gift (## Swap Gift #X with #Y). If you choose to swap, you can only swap once, then you are locked into that gift. If someone steals your original gift, you can choose to either open the one they gave you, or swap with one of the other remaining gifts. The gifts will not be revealed until all have been locked in, or we've reached the 24 hour time limit (~7 pm ET on Tuesday).

Note: I'm going to be pretty busy during the day tomorrow, but I will do my best to track this as things happen. Feel free to help out if you want/are able.

I considered having people go in order, like the traditional game does, but wasn't sure everyone would be active enough to get though all 16 players in a 24-hour period.

Updated Gift List

Gifts Claimed:
1. Curtis
3. TT
6. Nav
8. Brian
10. Jamie
13. Kat
16. Stargate

Gifts Unclaimed:
2. Zersch
4. Sami
5. Farlig
7. im317
9. Gmaj
11. Nofo
12. Ahoda
14. drrr
15. TIB

**Rodney has joined the party fashionably late.

Updated Gift List

Gifts Claimed:
1. Curtis
3. TT
6. Nav
8. Brian
10. Jamie
11. Farlig
13. Kat
16. Stargate

Gifts Unclaimed:
2. Zersch
4. Sami
5. Nofo
7. im317
9. Gmaj
12. Ahoda
14. drrr
15. TIB
17. Rodney

im317 @ 12/12/2023 14:16

##swap gift 7 with gift 17

No more than shows up, and immediately gets his gift stolen.

I love to see it.

Updated Gift List

Gifts Claimed:
1. Curtis
3. TT
4. Sami
6. Nav
8. Brian
10. Jamie
11. Farlig
13. Kat
16. Stargate
17. im317

Gifts Unclaimed:
2. Zersch
5. Nofo
7. Rodney
9. Gmaj
12. Ahoda
14. drrr
15. TIB

I had originally planned on opening this game tonight, but I had too many things come up that I couldn't put off today, plus starting tomorrow night actually works better for me projecting out for at least the first couple of day phases.

I will keep the gift exchange open through the rest of the evening, and expect D1 to start tomorrow (Wednesday) night around 8 PM ET.

Updated Gift List

Gifts Claimed:
1. Curtis
3. TT
4. Sami
6. Nav
7. Rodney
8. Brian
10. Jamie
11. Farlig
13. Kat
15. TIB
16. Stargate
17. im317

Gifts Unclaimed:
2. Zersch
5. Nofo
9. Gmaj
12. Ahoda
14. drrr

drrr @ 13/12/2023 0:54

Oops, been busy and didn't see the game started ##open gift

And with that, I'll just go ahead and lock in the remaining unclaimed gifts to their current holders. Feel free to continue to BS each other until the game opens up later on Wednesday night. You'll all receive your gifts then.

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Gifts Claimed:
1. Curtis
2. Zersch
3. TT
4. Sami
5. Nofo
6. Nav
7. Rodney
8. Brian
9. Gmaj
10. Jamie
11. Farlig
12. Ahoda
13. Kat
14. drrr
15. TIB
16. Stargate
17. im317

I'm going to go ahead and lock this up for now. Day 1 will start in a couple of hours (around 8:00-8:30 ET).