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Games Magazine Best Party Game of the year 2007/2008

GiftTRAP wins GAMES Magazine’s “Best Party Game of the year 2007/2008”

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Puts your gifts to the test!

GiftTRAP is the hilarious new game that’s taking the gaming world by storm and putting the social back into board games.

The goal is to really get to know your friends and family.

You win by knowing your friends and choosing the right gifts, but most of all it’s just fun to play and gets you talking about things that matter.

• 3-8 Players, 5+
• Playtime 45-75 mins
• Learn in 10 mins

• 1 full size game board
• 640 Gift Ideas
• Rules
• 8 Organza Gift Bags containing; scoring markers, gift & choice tokens plus advanced strategy cards

Love to play Trivial Pursuit, Cranium or Apples to Apples - You will love this family party game.

GiftTRAP is all the fun of Secret Santa without needing to shop or wrap.

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What kind of Gift Giver are you?

Indie Party Game that takes the gifts out of Christmas* unwraps yet another "Game of the Year" Award

* For Christmas read the denominational event your choice

KELOWNA (Wednesday 8th July 2009 ) GiftTRAP the first party game to capture the spirit of Christmas* today won the globally recognized Spiel Des Jahres (JDY) prize for “Best Party Game 2009”. Prior winners of the main prize include hits like “Settlers of Catan” , “Carcasonne” & Ticket to Ride”.

GiftTRAP is the first party game to have been awarded such a special prize by the SDJ judges. GiftTRAP sales exceed 50,000 units since launching in 2006 . GiftTRAP has won many international awards including “Best Party Game” from Games Magazine, “Game of the Year” in France / Faidutti.com, “Best Party Game” by Creative Child Magazine, “TV2 Hjelper Deg” in Norway & “Best New Game” in Sweden.

Individuals arriving for their family Christmas* ritual expect everyone to bring them a carefully wrapped gift - a ritual that both unites & divides. Today social pressures & commercialism overshadow an event layered in meaning, religion & tradition.

North American Retailers & Media coined the broader term “The Holiday Season making it feel that it’s the money and not the thought that counts.” says Nick Kellet GiftTRAP’s inventor & publisher. We live in a ‘want it buy it world’. Exchanging gifts is not the fun it once was. Believing we know people proves to be a myth.”

GiftTRAP stands against the rising tide of materialism, adding the feedback loop gift givers so badly need. Research shows we don’t give feedback on the 1/3rd of gifts we
don’t like - we all lie to Grandma. Now you can enjoy the exchange without the gifts!

The broad appeal of the game is one of its most unique features kids, teens, twenty somethings, young parents, grandparents & teachers extol the virtues of GiftTRAP’s
unique experience, high replay value & the fact that it resonates in current times.

Gifts aren’t just for Christmas, now you can give anytime. Play focuses on social exchanges - not the gifts - 640 diverse gift ideas are included and are guaranteed to start
conversation in households around the globe. Heidelberger launched the German edition of the game in 2008.

GiftTRAP is a tech-savvy indie board game company based in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, focused on engineering great conversation & fun social experiences.

GiftTRAP is spreading the globe on the back of word of mouth, awards & an ever expanding network of distributors & languages (8 so far). The company mission is to rid the world of unwanted gifts.Thinks of GiftTRAP as Board Game 2.0; a social, collaborative experience crowd sourced from user-created content; enabling friends to exchange virtual gifts either on line or in the physical game. Uniquely GiftTRAP is not about winning per se, but it is about you. No teams to hide behind. Winning doesn’t require any specific knowledge, but rather, people skills & strong intuition. The good news is that anyone who plays

GiftTRAP can improve gift-giving skills with practice. In fact once you play the game, you really never stop. It has an effect of making people more attentive to the needs of others & to explore different preferences. The company supports charity donations directly as well as through the content of the game. GiftTRAP is a strong supporter of Creative Commons & sources appropriately licensed images from Flickr.com to continually refine & refresh its gift ideas to reflect the current choices.

Players secretly choose & give everyone a unique gift. Next players each rate the gifts on offer as they feel best to worst. Next gifts are unwrapped & scored. No real gifts, no lies, no dice, no turns - just insight, laughter, honesty, great conversation & high-level engagement.

Aside from its unique theme & packaging GiftTRAP is one of few games that can be played/enjoyed from grandchild to grandparent often with interesting results.

As an indie game GiftTRAP is available from specialist game stores globally. Chains like Walmart & Toys R Us only stock games that are TV Advertised or based on TV Shows. SDY style games are slowly finding their way into mainstream culture in North America.

Media & bloggers are welcome to apply for a review copy. To arrange an interview with the inventor call +1 250 864 3821 or email

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