Re: Secret Santa

John wrote:
) The problem is that my friends and I are all in different cities, so
) can't meet face to face. Is it possible for us to do our "Secret
) Santa" without anyone knowing who someone else has got, using only
) e-mail (and telephones, although, so far as I can tell, that is
) identical to e-mail for the purposes of this puzzle)?

What, no old-fashioned snail mail ?

Assuming you don't want to know, you can simply make a stack of envelopes,
each containing a slip of paper with a name, and the same name written on
the front.  Shuffle the envelopes, and place them in a circle (so you can't
see the names of course).  Take out all slips and place them in te envelope
one stepü clockwise.  This way nobody can get themselves and you don't know
who got whom.

Of course, if they don't trust you to not look it gets a bit more
difficult.


SaSW, Willem (at stack dot nl)
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