Semana Santa y Pascua
Holy Week and Easter, with solemn street processions in Seville, Guatemala and Ayacucho, elaborate pasos and traditional foods.
Semana Santa runs from Domingo de Ramos to Domingo de Resurrección, on dates that move each year between late March and April; Pascua refers to Easter Sunday and the Easter season. In Seville, the week is marked by long penitential processions organized by hermandades, or lay brotherhoods. Their pasos—large floats carrying images of Christ, the Virgin, or scenes of the Passion—leave parish churches and make their way toward the cathedral, often over many hours. Nazarenos in pointed hoods walk with candles, bands play cornets and drums, and from balconies some spectators sing saetas, intense unaccompanied flamenco-style laments. Crowds line the route late into the night, especially from Jueves Santo into Madrugá.
In Antigua Guatemala, processions pass over alfombras made that morning from colored sawdust, flowers, pine needles, and fruit; residents work before dawn to finish them before the first float arrives. In Ayacucho, Peru, Holy Week brings masses, candlelit vigils, and daily processions, ending before dawn on Easter Sunday with the image of the risen Christ carried through the Plaza Mayor. Traditional food also changes with the season: in Spain many families eat torrijas and bacalao during Lent, while in Guatemala Holy Week sweets such as molletes, torrejas, and garbanzos en miel are sold and shared. On Easter people commonly say “¡Feliz Pascua!” or “¡Felices Pascuas!”.
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.