The last few years I’ve played a really fun Christmas gift game. It’s called the Dice Game. If you like White Elephant, Yankee Swap, or Dirty Santa (why does this game have so many names?!) then you should like the Dice Game. Here’s how you play…

• Everyone needs to bring 5 wrapped gifts that cost no more than a $1 each. They can also bring junk from home if they don’t want to spend the $5 bucks.
• Once you are ready to play put the gifts in the middle of the room and circle up around the gifts.
• You will need 4 dice and two containers to roll the dice in. Small plastic containers work fine. The container helps the dice not roll all over the room.
• When you say go, the two people that have the dice roll them into their container. Start the two containers at opposite sides of the circle.
• If they roll a 7 or 11 they get to pick out a present from the pile. If they roll doubles they get to roll again.
• After they roll they pass the container with the dice to the person next to them. The next person rolls and continues the process.
• The game moves quick because of the two sets of dice.
• Once all of the presents have been collected everyone gets to open their gifts. I like to have each person open one gift at a time. This way everone gets to see the gifts.
• Now this is where the fun begins. Set a timer for 5 minutes and start the game over. This time if someone rolls a 7 or 11 they can steal one gift from someone else. If they roll a double they get to roll again.
• At the end of the five minutes if anyone doesn’t have a single gift then they get to steal one gift from someone else.
• It’s a fast paced game and a lot of fun!

Here are a couple of pics from my Student Community Group. We played it on Wednesday night for group. I also played it with my Adult Community Group on Monday. I say that just let you know it’s not just a Student game.