The holiday themed 12 days takes the familiar quottwelve days of christmasquot song and twists it into a quick playing card game over twelve rounds players try to re gift unpopular cards while keeping cards that are strong enough to win the day while also keeping a careful eye for bonus scoring at the end of the game the gift deck consists of eighty cards one partridge in a pear tree two turtle doves and so on up to twelve drummers drumming as well as one card each for mr and mrs claus