{"id":574,"date":"2026-05-10T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/is-it-possible-to-exclude-a-participant-after-the-game-has-started\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:10:11","slug":"is-it-possible-to-exclude-a-participant-after-the-game-has-started","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/knowledge-base\/is-it-possible-to-exclude-a-participant-after-the-game-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible to exclude a participant after the game has started?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, it is not possible to exclude a participant after the game has started, as this will disrupt the entire chain of pairs in the game. One of the participants may have already purchased a gift by this point, so changing the pairs after the game has started would be unfair to all participants. <\/p>\n<p>The only possible option if the pairs need to be redistributed without a participant is to cancel the created game and create a new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, it is not possible to exclude a participant after the game has started, as this will disrupt the entire chain of pairs in the game. One of the participants may have already purchased a gift by this point, so changing the pairs after the game has started would be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[167],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-574","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-secret-santa-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/574\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}