Stara Godina
New Year’s Eve, with open-air city concerts, fireworks and midnight toasts.
Stara Godina, or New Year's Eve, is a vibrant celebration in Croatia, marked by public concerts, fireworks, and family gatherings. The day begins with preparations for the evening's festivities, including decorating homes and streets with colorful lights and ornaments. In major cities like Zagreb, Split, and Dubrovnik, open-air concerts featuring local and international artists are held in central squares, drawing large crowds.
Most Croatians spend the night at a doček, a New Year's welcome, either at home with a table of francuska salata, cold cuts, sarma and fritule, or on a square: Trg bana Jelačića in Zagreb and the Riva in Split host free concerts, with pop and folk stars playing until the odbrojavanje, the countdown to midnight. At twelve the fireworks go up, corks pop and everyone shouts 'Sretna Nova!', with kisses all round, and the first of January is a quiet public holiday for sleeping it off.
The pack has 36 words spread across these domains.
Same words in both. Beginner gets more help: matching and completing. Advanced listens and spells it out unaided. Pick it in practice; it locks when you take the scored run.
Practise as often as you like, all year. The scored run happens once, while the competition is open, and cannot be retaken.