Strathconon · Scottish Highlands

The Great Gift Heist
at Scatwell House

23–27 December

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What's the Great Gift Heist?

Rather than everyone buying gifts for everyone, you're invited to take part in our own twist on Secret Santa: the Great Gift Heist.

🎁Bring one gift

About £50, wrapped, with your name on it. Buy something you'd love to get.

🎲Draw one

On Christmas Day everyone picks a wrapped gift from under the tree.

Then steal

Gifts are opened one by one. Everyone has one steal card. Fastest draw wins.

😈Keep it if you can

Nobody's gift is safe until the last one's open. Choose your moment.

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The Farr House Getaway

Win an extra Steal Card

Grab a sack of stolen presents and leg it through the manor. Leap the fires, dodge Wendy and her firewood, run the length of the dining table and grab the drams on your way.

Top score when the gift game starts on Christmas Day wins a second steal card.

Best on your phone. Tap to jump, hold to jump higher.

Painting of the sitting room at Christmas: a stove glowing under a gilt painting, oak panelling, a lit tree by the snowy window, armchairs and a sofa with presents

Before you set off

Get ready in 3 steps

Three things to sort before you head up to Scatwell. That's it!

Painted pile of presents with tartan bows under a Christmas tree
1 💷

Pick a gift, about £50

Something you'd love to unwrap yourself, or be proud to be known as the giver of. A bit over or under is fine. Just not a £5 peach candle.

2 🏷️

Tag it with your name

It's not a mystery draw. Everyone will know who bought what, so put your name on it loud and proud.

3 🎀

Wrap it and pack it

Properly & cleverly. Paper, ribbon, the lot (gift bags will be judged). Pop it under the tree when we arrive on the 23rd.

Christmas Day · round the tree

How the gift game works

  1. 🃏
    Everyone gets one steal card

    Use it once, or not at all. Nobody has to steal.

  2. 🎁
    Round 1: draw a gift

    Take turns picking a wrapped gift from under the tree. No opening, no stealing. Read the name tags and start plotting.

  3. 🎀
    Round 2: unwrap one at a time

    Go round the tree. Each person opens their gift in front of everyone. Make a fuss.

  4. ⚡
    Then the steal window opens

    Want what was just opened? Slap your steal card down. Fastest draw wins. Only unwrapped gifts can be stolen.

  5. 🔄
    A steal is a swap

    You take the opened gift, and they get yours. If yours is still wrapped, they open it on the spot, and that opens another steal window.

  6. 👀
    Watch your back

    Gifts can be stolen more than once. It's over when every gift is open.

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