Ellis “White Elephant” Whitmore

Ellis's story

For thirty years Ellis worked estate sales and charity auctions, watching otherwise sensible adults fight over a lamp they didn't want ten minutes earlier. Ellis learned one lesson: people don't want the gift. They want the gift someone else just opened.

When the holiday party circuit discovered the White Elephant exchange, Ellis found the perfect arena: a room full of strangers, a pile of wrapped mystery, and a game that lets you take what someone else is holding.

After one too many disputes ended in a ruined office party, Ellis hung up the gavel and became the neutral referee every gift swap needs: the one person who can calmly explain that it was perfectly legal.

“Wrap it well. Trust no one.”

What Ellis is known for

• The gift-wrap jacket. Cream-and-gold brocade with a big red ribbon bow tied across the chest, like a present that walked in.
• The silver hair crest and a cranberry scarf, finished with a gold gift-tag charm on the lapel.
• The sly half-smile. One raised eyebrow, head slightly tilted. It means “I saw that.”
• Rulings delivered like a judge, and warnings delivered like a magician.

Watch Ellis

Start with Ellis's walkthrough: How to Play White Elephant (Gift Exchange Rules Explained). His sign-off never changes: “Ellis out. May the best gift win.”

Ellis is an AI character created by Let's Play Secret Santa. Ellis is not a real person, and the stories on this page are fiction, written for fun.