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Thank you. Congratulations to other winners too.

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thank you all

congratulations to

@MountainMom thank you for the nice contest and then GBs

Congratulations

Congratulations to all the winners in this fun contest!!

Werner_Cichy

Gratulation an alle anderen Gewinner

sabledo85

Félicitations aux gagnants 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳

Congretualtions to 6 Winners!!!!! 😁👍️👏👏👏👏👏

@Andynjvdr — please reply with your User ID

The above players will each have 💰30 gold bars💰 sent to their Candy Crush Friends Saga games. Congratulations to each of you!

And special thanks to the other players ⤵️ who shared images of and fun facts about Nutcrackers:

@BQN537 , @Diamond_Lim , @DieOmimi , @EnergizerBunny , @Gumyupawpaw , @Haechan_17 , @Ibnana , @KCullen127 , @MollyS , @nekocat , @Racoon7 , @sabledo85 , @sudejo ,

🎉 Get ready for another Friendtastic contest hosted by @DieOmimi 🎉

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/comment/3381688#Comment_3381688

I have those Christmas ornament nutcrackers that you have pictured. In fact they were the first nutcrackers and the reason for my collection

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Same for mine ⤴️, and impossible to edit at the moment 🙄

1️⃣ Even though the soldier is the iconic nutcracker image, there are several classic nutcracker figurines for different parts of the world. Have a look at these ones:

The crocodile 🐊😱

The squirrel 🐿️

The dog 🐕

I am wondering... Why not offer this dog nutcracker to our unique CCFS Nutcracker as a testimony of our love to him, and make it one of the Nutcracker family members? 😉💕

2️⃣ Over the years, the Nutcraker dolls were also highly sought after for their complicated engineering. Such engineering consists of a lever that enables to open the doll's mouth and use it for nut cracking. In fact, one doll could encompass as many as 130 separate parts!!

One week left — join this fun contest for a chance to win gold bars!

🎉 Let's have some Friendtastic fun! 🎉

Reminder: gold bars can only be awarded in CCFS game and are not transferable to another player.

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Thank you so much 💓

Contest update: I am truly enjoying the images and fun facts you are all sharing. So far, the following 16 players are qualified for the drawing for gold bars to be held on August 27.

@MollyS , @Werner_Cichy , @maf34100 , @Racoon7 , @sabledo85 , @sudejo , @teeweiping , @Ibnana , @BQN537 , @EnergizerBunny , @KCullen127 , @SApple2 , @Gumyupawpaw , @rebelchild , @Haechan_17 , @Andynjvdr and just for fun @DieOmimi and @Diamond_Lim

There are still several days for more players to join.

Found this gorgeously Swarovski nutcracker on internet and it has a nutcracking price 🤑

Haechan_17

Thank you for preparing the fun contest, @MountainMom. 😊

Today, I'm going to tell you a fun story about the Nutcracker and related ballet suite music.

Originally, walnuts were made in various regions and cultures because their shells belonged to a very hard axis among nut types. In particular, in Central Europe, nutcracker dolls, which were made into wooden dolls, which could be used as decorative items other than the practical purpose of peeling walnuts, began to be made around the 15th century. 🧐

Since then, the nutcracker was commonly used as a gift for believers in connection with Christmas, a common holiday in Christian culture. 🎁 It is known that there are many homemade craftsmen who specialize in Christmas decorations, including the doll, in Saxony and Thuringia, Germany, which are still popular in Protestantism. There are usually many wooden dolls, but they are also made with different materials such as metal or pottery depending on the region and the craftsman, isn't it amazing? 😮

All nutcrackers are commercially available to lay walnuts, but they are sold mostly as decorative or souvenir in modern times. This is why there is often a warning sign "DO NOT USE THEM AS WALNUTS" on the packaging. In this case, there is a high risk that the nutcracker's jaw will fall out without peeling the nut. Of course, people say it's safe to use a real-life nutcracker for that purpose. What do you think about that? ☺️

Also, The traditional Nutcracker is made in the form of a soldier with a Kaiser beard and a conquest, and the mouth opens when the lever on the back side is raised, and the walnut is broken when the walnut is put in the open mouth and the lever is lowered. Many of these traditional nutcrackers are still being made, and even when Germany was separated into East and West Germany after the defeat of World War II, one of the valuable foreign currency-earning products of the East German government is called the Nutcracker. At one point, nutcracker dolls dressed as occupiers, such as U.S. and Soviet troops, were made at the request of soldiers, but after a flash of fashion, dolls with traditional designs continued to be produced and sold to these days.

As a side note, I would like to introduce the classical genre of ballet music related to that. If you've seen figure skating at the Winter Olympics, I think you know this song.

It's called "The Nutcracker (Op. 71)", a ballet suite composed by Tchaikovsky. It was released in 1892 based on Hoffman's fairy tale. It's one of the three major ballet pieces that he composed. In fact, there's a behind-the-scenes story to this music.

Tchaikovsky would be commissioned a new ballet in 1890 when he was 50 years old. The commissioner, Uvalokowski, was a person who made great achievements in reforming Russian ballet culture while serving as director of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. He had a long relationship with Tchaikovsky, and in 1888, he was commissioned to compose "The Sleeping Beauty." When it comes to script creation, the story was a bit complicated. Based on the adaptation by France's Little Dumas based on the German writer and composer Hofmann's fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," the principal choreographer of the Mariinsky Theater has composed the ballet by Mariusz Petipa and revised it by Ivanov, the deputy choreographer, so far.

The contents are briefly introduced as follows.

One day on White Christmas Eve in Germany, Clara and Fritz will receive a gift from Clara's godfather and wizard, Drosselmeyer, at a Christmas party at Silverhouse's mansion. However, what Clara received was an ugly nutcracker.

Moreover, Fritz ends up breaking the nutcracker while playing a joke. Drosselmeyer, a wizard, fixes that and people go back to their homes by midnight. (Story until Act 1 and Act 2)

In Clara's dream while sleeping with a nutcracker in her arms, the Christmas tree becomes huge enough to fill the living room and a group of rats begins an attack. However, with the sound of trumpet, soldiers with the Nutcracker as the leader appear and the battle begins. In a crisis, Clara succeeds in suppressing the seven-headed King of Rat (King of Rats) with a broom. Thanks to this, the magic of the curse is lifted, turning the Nutcracker into a wonderful prince and Clara into a beautiful lady. (Act 1 chapter 3 - Clara's Bedroom)

Clara's bedroom turns into a midwinter forest (Act 1 Chapter 4), and they travel to the land of fantasy (Woderful Land, Act 2 Chapter 1). The returned mouse king attacks them again, but they defeats those easily, and they continue their journey with the butterflies. When the wizard Drosselmeyer appears and waves a cane, a beautiful palace appears, and the doll in Clara's room comes to life and begins to dance as fairies. It is the climax part of the second act, "The Palace of the Mystery" (Act 2). It follows the Spanish dance (Chocolate fairy), the Arabian dance (Coffee fairy), the Chinese dance (Tea fairy), the Russian dance (Trepak), the French dance (Danse des Mirlites), the ginger mother and clown, the flower waltz, and the grand pas de deux of Clara and the prince. The story ends with a happy ending as Clara, who wakes up from her dream, greets a happy Christmas morning. 😊

Hi @MountainMom . Thank you for an informative contest.

1.There are over 100 nutcrackers at my house. Some are several feet tall, others only an inch high. Here is my newest nutcracker which came from North Carolina

2. nutcrackers have pagan origins. They are associated with the winter solstice .

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you are welcome

teeweiping

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Thank you. Congratulations to other winners too.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/comment/3389618#Comment_3389618

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/comment/3389622#Comment_3389622

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/comment/3389649#Comment_3389649

thank you all

congratulations to

@MountainMom thank you for the nice contest and then GBs

Congratulations

Congratulations to all the winners in this fun contest!!

Werner_Cichy

Gratulation an alle anderen Gewinner

sabledo85

Félicitations aux gagnants 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳

Congretualtions to 6 Winners!!!!! 😁👍️👏👏👏👏👏

@Andynjvdr — please reply with your User ID

The above players will each have 💰30 gold bars💰 sent to their Candy Crush Friends Saga games. Congratulations to each of you!

And special thanks to the other players ⤵️ who shared images of and fun facts about Nutcrackers:

@BQN537 , @Diamond_Lim , @DieOmimi , @EnergizerBunny , @Gumyupawpaw , @Haechan_17 , @Ibnana , @KCullen127 , @MollyS , @nekocat , @Racoon7 , @sabledo85 , @sudejo ,

🎉 Get ready for another Friendtastic contest hosted by @DieOmimi 🎉

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/comment/3381688#Comment_3381688

I have those Christmas ornament nutcrackers that you have pictured. In fact they were the first nutcrackers and the reason for my collection

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/comment/3381339#Comment_3381339

Same for mine ⤴️, and impossible to edit at the moment 🙄

1️⃣ Even though the soldier is the iconic nutcracker image, there are several classic nutcracker figurines for different parts of the world. Have a look at these ones:

The crocodile 🐊😱

The squirrel 🐿️

The dog 🐕

I am wondering... Why not offer this dog nutcracker to our unique CCFS Nutcracker as a testimony of our love to him, and make it one of the Nutcracker family members? 😉💕

One week left — join this fun contest for a chance to win gold bars!

🎉 Let's have some Friendtastic fun! 🎉

Reminder: gold bars can only be awarded in CCFS game and are not transferable to another player.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/comment/3383606#Comment_3383606

Thank you so much 💓

Contest update: I am truly enjoying the images and fun facts you are all sharing. So far, the following 16 players are qualified for the drawing for gold bars to be held on August 27.

There are still several days for more players to join.

Found this gorgeously Swarovski nutcracker on internet and it has a nutcracking price 🤑

Haechan_17

Thank you for preparing the fun contest, @MountainMom. 😊

Today, I'm going to tell you a fun story about the Nutcracker and related ballet suite music.

As a side note, I would like to introduce the classical genre of ballet music related to that. If you've seen figure skating at the Winter Olympics, I think you know this song.

The contents are briefly introduced as follows.

Moreover, Fritz ends up breaking the nutcracker while playing a joke. Drosselmeyer, a wizard, fixes that and people go back to their homes by midnight. (Story until Act 1 and Act 2)