Nytårsaften
New Year’s Eve, with the Monarch’s speech at six, kransekage, jumping off chairs at midnight and fireworks.
Nytårsaften, 31 December, follows a script every Dane knows. At six o'clock the country sits down for kongens nytårstale, the King's New Year speech, broadcast live from Amalienborg and ending with 'Gud bevare Danmark'; since 2024 it is King Frederik who gives it, after 52 years of Queen Margrethe. Then comes the nytårsmenu, once boiled cod with mustard sauce, today more often a fillet steak or lobster, with champagne, party hats, streamers and bordbomber, small cardboard bombs that shower the table with confetti.
Just before midnight everyone climbs onto a chair to watch rådhusuret, the Copenhagen town hall clock, strike twelve on television, and jumps down into the new year on the last chime. Then 'Godt nytår!', kisses, kransekage, the tower of marzipan rings, and the fireworks: Denmark is one of the few countries where private rockets are sold freely for these days, so the sky over every town explodes for an hour. New Year's Day is a holiday for a late brunch and for writing down nytårsforsæt, resolutions.
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.