From Grand Illusions.

Tim loves a good cracker, and so he was very intrigued to discover that a local shop was selling a completely redesigned style of cracker!

You could just stand it on the table and pull the red ribbon yourself. However Tim found that he could tuck one under his elbow and offer the ribbon to the person next to him, then you could still have a circle of people all pulling crackers together. Another advantage with these crackers is that you can be sure everyone gets a hat and motto etc. With traditional crackers, some people end up getting the contents of two crackers and other people get nothing.

I guess that’s just the way the cracker crumbles!!