CONTEST BASED ON HIDDEN NUTS >>>

Tacoma City Ballet is in the midst of a yearlong scavenger hunt for Golden Krakatuk Nuts. You heard right. Nuts. The nuts tie into the company's highly anticipated Dec. 7, 2013 performance, Prequel to The Nutcracker.

The contest in a nutshell: TCB hides hand-painted Golden Krakatuk Nuts inside jewel boxes around Tacoma; inside the boxes is a scroll with prize details, such as gift certificates, merchandise or tickets to Tacoma City Ballet's World Premier of said Nutcracker in December. Each month through the year, Golden Krakatuk Nuts will be hidden at businesses throughout Tacoma. To find the nuts, decipher the poetic clues, which will be posted at Tacoma City Ballet's website, Facebook page, as well as this blog. You find the Golden Krakatuk Nuts and great riches will be heaped upon you! For complete on the contest and Nutcracker performance, click here.

Somehow, through all this nutty scavenher hunting, Tacoma City Ballet will host another free preview performance - this time for its upcoming event Mid-Winter Masquerade Ball Soirée - tonight at 7:30 p.m. inside the Tacoma City Ballet studio at the Merlino Building at Sixth and Fawcett.

The second Golden Krakatuk Nut clue dropped this morning. This clue will guide you to a restaurant, shop or other business at which the nuts may be in plain sight or may be behind the counter.

Here you go you nuts:

Searching for the Krakatuk Nut, you are?

Then like Drosselmeyer you must travel far.

Look for beautiful boxes containing the Golden Nut

and other delightful prizes - Who can imagine what?

Only one box is hidden this month in our fair city

And to figure out February's clue, you must be quite witty.

February's Krakatuk Clue

For some royal reading with two cats both friendly and furry

Come shop downtown where you won't have to hurry.

Do you know what that means? Are you off to find the golden nut? A limited number of prizes will be available at each location, so speed counts.