Secret Santa

[Erika<3]

My clan does a secret santa event every year. We used to have everyone send their gifts to our generic secret Santa account then on Christmas they would be given to the appropriate recipients.

In the last year or two, we haven't been able to do it this way since things changed. Is there a way to do this still with anonymity? Last year we had to have everyone send it to their people directly.

Doing so just kind of sucked the fun and mystery out of the event.

Just trying to find a solution to this problem?

Thanks.

[Cathulhu]

No, there isn't.

[Drab]

Just have everyone buy something for themselves. They get exactly what they want that way instead of...

[Teksura]

Strictly speaking, yes. You just have to go outside of Steam to do it.

If you are buying a game key from a non-steam authorized retailer, like the Humble Store, then what you can do is give the gift link provided by Humble to whoever is in charge of the secret santa distribution. It might be better to use emails for this.

Whoever is running the distribution of the gifts can then turn around and distribute the gift links or the game keys to everyone.

You can not do what you want to do through Steam itself.


I'd also include a warning about doing this sort of thing and potentially getting nothing in return, but it sounds like you're doing this with close friends who you have known for years. Strictly speaking, nothing prevents whoever holds all the gifts from running off with all of them.

[Mikasa Ackerman]

if you have to do a secret santa thing , maybe all change your names so its not clear who gifted who ( just make sure you know who you need to gift things too ( maybe you have to put the person you need to gift into an extra category so you know who they are but thats it

i dont know if trade or gift history shows who sent you a gift after they changed their names again , if it does , just dont check it

edit for names just have santa 1- 100 , everyone puts that person they got into a unique category before changing the names , then change them in a way someone organizes it

that way you dont know who gifts you , you only know the person you gift something

[Erika<3]

Thank you for the replies. :D

[Teksura]

Another good option is have everyone just make a throwaway account and send the gift from that.