Woman 'steals' top-prize lottery ticket at white elephant party

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WFLA) – Lori Janes was pretty bummed when a coworker "stole" a $25 TJ Maxx gift card she got at her company's white elephant party. But her luck was about to change.

Janes works at Harmon Dental Center in Louisville, Kentucky, as the office manager and treatment coordinator. For the holidays, Janes and her colleagues decided to hold a white elephant gift exchange.

During a white elephant gift swap — sometimes called "Yankee swap" — each participant brings a wrapped gift to exchange with other partygoers. Rules vary from region to region (and family to family), but participants generally take turns choosing and unwrapping one of the gifts. Players on subsequent turns, however, can choose not to pick a gift from the pile, and instead "steal" one of the gifts that had already been unwrapped during an earlier turn.