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paddington stan account@adriyoung · Dec 25, 2018

So my family plays White Elephant with a twist: you have to challenge someone to a mini game if you want to steal…

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A family's White Elephant gift exchange tradition features creative mini-game challenges to steal gifts, including hilarious games like straw skittles transfers, pie face competitions, Oreo forehead wiggling, noodle threading, and various dexterity challenges that often go hilariously wrong.

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  1. #1

    So my family plays White Elephant with a twist: you have to challenge someone to a mini game if you want to steal their gift... With a huge family it gets out of hand pretty quick. A thread of our games:

  2. #2

    Transferring skittles from one bowl to another using a straw

  3. #3

    Whatever this unicorn ring toss game is lol

  4. #4

    Me refusing to lose at the pie face game to steal Batman Legos bc I spent a lot of time on my makeup

  5. #5

    Lmao who remembers these things from childhood

  6. #6

    One ball per cup using a tape measure lol

  7. #7

    My stepdad losing a fruit by the foot eating challenge

  8. #8

    This pasta threading more pasta thing??

  9. #9

    This one from last year threading candy canes

  10. #10

    Also from last year: knocking over a row of cups with a stocking on ur head (I think there’s a tennis ball at the end of the stocking too)

  11. #11

    We had hanging toilet paper stuffed into a soda can and whoever knocked it down with a rubber band won

  12. #12

    Start with an Oreo on your forehead and then wiggle it down to your mouth without using your hands (I’ve lost his one SEVERAL YEARS and it makes me soooo salty and I always get crumbs in my eyes lol)

  13. #13

    Fanning a ping pong ball into a bucket across the room

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    Thread a spaghetti noodle through a soda can too and carry it across the room with no hands

  15. #15

    And this moment was clutch AF

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    Digging two years ago now: removing the notecards to perfectly stack all four cups (I didn’t win 😭)

  17. #17

    Thread a bunch of mini donuts on a string for a donut eating contest (no hands) lol it’s better if they’re powdered cuz then it gets messy AF

  18. #18

    Chugging half this bottle of water then flipping it onto the table upright (this one took forever cuz no one was getting it and we had to move the tables closer lol)

  19. #19

    Anyways if y’all liked this you should see our annual dance and lip sync competition too (this one is a father daughter dance lmao) Also go follow @fentybeauty and @adrienney on IG.. and thats all the promos I GOT

  20. #20

    Anyways @warriors @Legos @starwars pls send us gifts next year because your gifts are the ones we’re always fighting each other for 😂