I posted this in another thread but didn't get any answers!
I'm doing pass the parcel for approx 30 kids. About 10 are toddlers. I don't want it to take half an hour so considered doing two parcels going in different directions. (Otherwise I will have to be militant about mums helping little ones open layers!)
My question - If I was doing one layer per child, how do I engineer it so only the children who haven't opened it both end up with it when the music stops? As two people will have a turn each time. Child A and B might be the only ones left but when one parcel is on child A it might be far away from B. And this won't necessarily only affect the last two kids. Presumably I do a few extra layers so that it doesn't matter if a couple of kids get extra goes while the others get their turns, but how many extra layers? If there are too many then it defeats the point of splitting them into two parcels!
I am not v imaginative when it comes to these things. I'm making it sound like one of those Guardian Monday puzzles but that's how I tend to approach things 
Presumably I also need a pen and paper to write down who's had a turn, as we do it...
(I have already spent more on wrapping paper than the prizes)