I'd like that moderately-heavy-looking brown square, please!

... Okay, so it's more of a rectangle, but still.

It's a zip file. My gift is a piece of software. I really hope it's another game development tool.

-Twistey

I want the one with the cute red snowman wrapping paper, please. :)

Dibs on the dark red rectangular box here in the bottom. The one which seems medium-sized. I've got a good feeling about this one.

Can I have that box with the night-sky-pattern wrapping paper, the one that's big enough for me to sit in?

The small blue box, about 10 cm cubed.

The blue is peppered with small grey stars.

Just about palm-sized and not very tall. And it doesn't rattle when shaken!

The blue and green one, please. Looks like a cylinder.

I choose the package wrapped in blue and gold, with ornate patterns on the wrapping paper.

The long, narrow box.

I'll take the cubic one about a foot across, please. The forest green one with a silver ribbon. It smells nice, like an old book. But I've never seen a perfectly cubic book.

It's about the size of a softball, with gold Gallifreyan writing across the deep blues, and if I'm honest I just want to know how they managed to wrap a dodecahedron when I have trouble with a shoebox. (And where they got that paper, because that's gorgeous)

My box is one cubit long, and three hands wide. It is wrapped in green, with a white silk ribbon wrapped around it. Occasionally, the paper shimmers.

I think it's the one that rattles and emits growling noises every so often, wrapped in golden wrapping and a blue silk ribbon, with holes on its lid that emit puffs of smoke.

the cubical white box which feels extremely light.

How about the medium-sized box with the green wrapping paper covered in pineapples and Santas with Hawaiian shirts? I’m hoping for something summery (as I’m not really a winter person)!

Is it a refrigerator box? It might be a refrigerator box. It's so big that one roll of wrapping paper wasn't enough, and the natural-tone Christmas tree paper and cartoon snowmen on bright blue paper don't really go together. I suspect it contains an exasperating series of ever-smaller boxes.

~Neshomeh

...it's clearly very old, and whatever's inside it might have archeological value.

It's a knackered plastic carrier bag of the kind that costs fivepence and in so doing has saved Earth from the threat of climate change literally forever. One of the handles has torn in half and the other has disappeared. There's a worrying smell coming from inside the bag. I can't see what's in it, but I know that it's there.

Waiting.

A completely flat, red envelope with my name hastily scrawled upon it. It's not even sealed properly.

It's about the size of a shelled coconut, and wrapped in silver paper with a blue ribbon.