Schrottwichteln or Scrap Gnomes

Today, was a Spa day, a present from work for our team after completing a massive project. 

I was all warm and relaxed from my massage, snuggled in my complimentary robe, knitting and doing my other favourite activity, in these situations; listening to snatches of conversations. 

The two ladies, opposite we’re talking about Christmas and work secret Santas.  One of them asked if the other if they knew of this German tradition where you take a nice, unwanted gift, wrap it and then you play a game to see who will get which gift. 

Rules
I found these rules on a German language blog

​When all players are sitting at the table and all the gifts are in the middle in front of you, you set a time for how long you want to play. Then the dice are rolled in turn. Each number rolled then has its own rule. First, everyone has to roll a six - because whoever rolls the six gets to choose a present from the middle (don't unwrap it yet!)

• ​6 : You choose a present from the middle and place it in front of you (do not unwrap it!). If you already have a gift in front of you and you roll another 6, you can unwrap your gift.
• 5 : You can exchange your gift with another player (whether he wants to or not and regardless of whether you have already unpacked or not)
• 4 : Everyone passes their gifts clockwise.
• 3 : You must exchange your gift with the player to your left.
• 2 : You must exchange your gift with the player to your right.
• 1 : You get to decide which players have to exchange their gifts.​

Of course, there is nothing stopping you from creating your own rules to fit who you are playing with.