In Britannia
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On a Roman estate in Britannia, the wheat has turned gold and the barley is heavy in the ear. The farm slaves have been in the fields since dawn, the ox-cart waits by the granary, and the whole household is holding its breath: will the harvest be gathered in before the weather turns?
Seven puzzles stand between you and the harvest itself. Solve one, and the fields empty a little more — until, at the end, one final word reveals just how good this year's harvest really is.
Crossword — the vocabulary of a Roman farm at harvest time.
Anagrams — unscramble seven words for the harvest and the work behind it.
Cipher — decode a message, then answer the riddle it asks.
Matching — two verbs, aedificō and īnferō ("to build," "to bring in"), in every tense you know.
Picture Count — reassemble a scattered scene, then count what you see.
Odd One Out — find the mismatched word in each row to reveal how the harvest went, then answer questions about it.
Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters, rearranged, spell the final word.
Every answer box checks itself instantly. Spelling and capitalization are forgiving — macrons are never required.
Fifteen words from a Roman farm. Every clue gives the English meaning; you supply the Latin. Fill the grid — every crossing letter must agree both ways. Eight cells are marked in red: once the grid is solved, their letters unscramble into one more word.
The grid is correct. Unscramble the eight red letters:
Seven words for the estate and the people who run it. Unscramble each one.
A message has been shifted 3 letters forward through the alphabet. Shift each letter back 3 to decode it — the message speaks for itself. Answer the question it asks, in Latin.
Decode the message — it already asks its own question at the end.
Two verbs, aedificō, aedificāre ("to build") and īnferō, īnferre ("to bring in") — building the granary and filling it — in every tense you know. Drag each English meaning onto its matching Latin form.
The picture below has been scattered into 24 pieces — click two to swap them. Each piece locks in place once it's correct. When the whole picture is assembled, five counting questions will appear — in Latin, they ask quot ("how many") of each thing you can find.
Click two pieces to swap them. Correct pieces lock in place — keep going until the whole picture is assembled.
In each row, three tiles belong together and one doesn't. Drag out the odd tile. Find all 15 to learn how the harvest went.
Now that the story is whole, answer these in Latin:
One clue from every lock you solved. Answer each in Latin — the first letter of each answer will reveal itself, in the order the locks appeared.
You're almost there! Arrange these letters to make a word.
The password was:
capite — "on the head." Basket by basket, on the heads of the household, the whole harvest comes home.