Qui pige qui?
Organize an office gift exchange
December is coming, and this year you inherited the office gift exchange. Between colleagues working from home, the ones on vacation the week of the draw, and the classic "I drew my own name", the paper-slips-in-a-bowl method quickly shows its limits.
The good news: organizing the office draw can literally take two minutes, without making anyone create an account — and without you, the organizer, knowing the results.
What goes wrong with the traditional method
The in-person draw needs everyone in the same room at the same time — mission impossible with hybrid schedules. Then someone always draws their own name, and you start over while the coffee gets cold. And if you're the one preparing the slips, you inevitably know some results: half the surprise is gone.
An online draw fixes all three problems at once, as long as you pick a tool that doesn't require accounts: asking fifteen colleagues to sign up to a platform for a fifteen-minute activity is the surest way for half of them never to do it.
The office draw in three steps
Create the draw and enter the names
Add the list of participating colleagues. Need exclusions? You can prevent two people from the same pair from drawing each other.
Launch the draw
The app runs the draw automatically: nobody draws themselves, nobody draws their exclusion.
Hand out the secret links
Each colleague gets their link and privately discovers who they're spoiling. You see nothing — you enjoy the surprise like everyone else.
Frequently asked questions
Do my colleagues need to create an account?
No. Everyone gets a secret link and opens it in their browser. No signup, no app to install.
What if a colleague is on vacation during the draw?
No problem: the draw happens online, and everyone opens their link whenever it suits them. Nobody needs to be present at the same time.
Does the organizer see who drew whom?
No — by design: assignments are only visible to each participant. So you can take part in the exchange too.
Qui pige qui? does exactly this: the office draw, in two minutes, with no accounts.