What is the best low-tech protocol to simulate drawing names out of a hat and ensure secrecy?

Question

Each year at Thanksgiving, my family has drawn names out of a hat to determine who they\'ll be a \"Secret Santa\" for the Christmas gift exchange. It\'s important to our fam

Answer 1

Use your neighbor:

Prepare N envelopes with names on them.

Prepare N name sheets, that include the spouse names on them e.g

"Bob (spouse of Molva)"

Than leave the room and ask your neighbor to do the random matching. Presto. Give the envelopes to the persons either personally or via US mail

Marry Christmas