Secret Santa
Draw names for a gift exchange
Everyone draws somebody, nobody draws themselves, and no one needs an account or an email address. Sealed links, printable cards, and an event that deletes itself.
Who's taking part
Participants
4 peopleNo duplicatesThree people minimum. Nobody needs an account, and nobody needs an email address.
Repeated names get a number so you can tell them apart.
Your setup stays in this browser until you choose Draw names.
Gift hints (optional)
Everyone further down the list can write their own hints from their own link.
Optional, and one line each. Whatever you write is shown only to the person who draws them.
Rules
Who shouldn't draw whom
Add a pair and the first won't draw the second. The couples switch is on to begin with, so both directions are excluded until you turn it off.
Couples
Adds the rule in both directions in one step.
No rules yet.
Import last year's event
Upload the event file you downloaded last time, and nobody draws the same person two years running.
The exchange
How people find out
Sealed links
RecommendedOne private link per person. Send them however you like — a message, a chat group, a printed card — and only the person who opens a link sees the name inside it.
Worth it when links get forwarded by mistake.
The first open reveals the name; later opens are turned away, and you can see it happened.
We email each person their own link, and send nothing else, ever.
No email needed — share sealed reveal links instead
Addresses are used to send these links and nothing else. They are deleted with the event.
This event deletes itself 60 days after the exchange date. The names, the hints and the links go with it.
Draw names sends the organiser’s name, participants’ names and gift hints, rules, date, budget, message and link settings to our server to create private assignments. Email addresses are sent only when email delivery is on.
This draw isn't possible