White Elephant is surprisingly effective

Re:White Elephant is surprisingly effective by bobbiechen on Sunday December 31, 2023 @02:32PM (#38826800)

Happy new year HN! My post here analyzes 80,000 simulated games of White Elephant for 2 to 9 players, and finds that it's pretty good at distributing gifts to people who value them. Source code available here: https://github.com/bobbiec/white-elephant

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Re:White Elephant is surprisingly effective by flappyeagle on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:39PM (#38829571)

The core inefficiency of white elephant is the gifts themselves are often not very appealing in the first place — a perfectly distributed set of shit gifts are still shit

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Re:White Elephant is surprisingly effective by throwup238 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:49PM (#38829611)

Yeah look what happened when Michael Scott forced everyone to play (though he called it Yankee Swap). Everybody hated it! Except Pam and Dwight, but they got Jim's in-joke gift and the brand new iPod respectively.

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Re:White Elephant is surprisingly effective by realitysballs on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:55PM (#38829637)

Such a classic episode

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