To prevent certain people from drawing each other in your Elfster Gift Exchange (like spouses, siblings, or teammates) you can set up Draw Restrictions.
Creating a Gift Exchange with the same people? Never fear! Our ✨Draw Magic✨ will make sure they don't draw the same person they drew last year as long as you start with a previous Gift Exchange.
How to set Draw Restrictions
- Invite everyone to the Elfster Gift Exchange.
- Select the Gift Exchange that you need to set up Draw Restrictions
- Click Gear Icon
/Exchange Settings in upper right corner - Select Draw Restrictions.
- On the website, select the pencil icon to the right of the person's name. In the iOS app, select the + button. In the Android app, click the person's name
- Check off each person that the participant shouldn't draw.
- Select the back arrow < or X to close the draw restrictions for that person.
- Repeat for each person.
✨ Restrictions are unique to each person, so if you don't want Rudolph to draw Blitzen, or Blitzen to draw Rudolph, both will need a restriction.
✨ Only the organizer and assistants are able to see Draw Restrictions.
✨ Elf Tip! ✨ If the Gift Exchange was created by selecting Let the good time roll (again!) and clicking on a Previous Gift Exchange, the Elfster system will take into account the previous draw names and not assign the same names again until all of the options have been used. You will not see these listed in the Draw Restrictions, but no worries, the elves are on it!
🛑 Draw Restrictions set by the Organizer limit the number of options that each Participant can draw, which may result in someone drawing the same name two Exchanges in a row
⚠️ Once you have set up restrictions for your exchange, they will be in place for any future exchanges with this same group.