Mikulás
St Nicholas Day, when children polish their boots for the windowsill to receive sweets and tangerines from Mikulás.
Mikulás, or St. Nicholas Day, is a beloved tradition in Hungary celebrated on December 6th. This event honors St. Nicholas, who is known for his generosity and kindness. Children eagerly anticipate this day, as it is when they receive small gifts and treats. The tradition involves children polishing their boots and placing them on the windowsill or by the door the night before, hoping that Mikulás will fill them with sweets, tangerines, and sometimes small toys.
On the morning of 6 December children run to the window to see what Mikulás left: a chocolate Mikulás, mandarins, peanuts and szaloncukor, the wrapped fondant sweets that later hang on the Christmas tree, and for those who were naughty a virgács, a gilded birch twig, usually alongside the sweets rather than instead of them. Mikulás, dressed as a bishop in red, visits kindergartens, schools and workplaces with his sack, often with Krampusz, the horned companion who rattles chains and teases the children. Boys and girls sing 'Hull a pelyhes fehér hó', the Mikulás song every Hungarian knows.
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.