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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”

What's the idea?

Click here to find out how we’ve turned gift giving into a hilarious social experience

Discover the fun!

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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?

Opinions on Opinions: Phase 1

Surveys have always been a good way to attract media attention, or thats the way the theory goes.

Have you ever tried to create a survey? Our Gift Giving poll was my first ever poll and I found it much harder than I’d expected. Clearly the author of every poll has an agenda and a message they want to air through the poll. Creating a collection of interesting and controversial questions is hard questions that people will answer and that the media may pick up on.

I brainstormed a few question ideas and searched existing surveys for ideas, but it wasnҒt easy. The good news about running a poll from your website is that its super easy to edit or drop a question or a response, but it was still really hard to create an interesting poll. I found us quickly dropping questions that didnt generate a variety of opinion.

While working on the poll I came up with the idea of sharing the results with other companies that share an interest in the subject of your poll, albeit a different slant. This approach proved to be highly effective. Its a simple win-win proposition - you host the survey and share the results and your partner companies can;

1. Drive traffic to your poll and/or host questions on their site
2. Contribute questions with a unique perspective
3. Share the results citing your company as the co-author of the survey.

Its a good deal for lots of reasons, but my favorite one is that your poll gets to have multiple perspectives and to garner many more votes and much more credibility. With so many polls out there, today you need something a more credible to stand out and really grab attention.

Our poll wasnҒt perfect. I wish it was asynchronous and didnt refresh the page every time you vote (I used a module called EE Poll which is integrated into Expression Engine, which is the platform used to build this website). Overall were very happy to have created, managed and run a poll with over 8.500 responses over a matter of weeks.

Ive got to make special thanks to Used Canada and Deep Fun for their help in contributing both traffic and content for our poll. 

We’re beginning the second phase of the project and trying to use the content to connect with the media and bloggers, but figured it was a good idea to share progress on phase 1.

PS If you’d like to join in a future poll or you’d like us to share in one of yours let us know. We’d be happy to help.