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Beware the Ides

A Ides of March Latin escape room for Latin I

Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 1, Stages 1–12

The morning of the Ides of March: Julius Caesar walks through a crowded street to the Senate, and an old soothsayer seizes his arm to warn him. Solve seven puzzles to follow Caesar on his last walk.

Play the free taster (2 of 7 locks)Members: full room

The taster runs in the browser, with nothing to install. Members share a private class link that opens all seven locks. Sound adds to the atmosphere.

What's inside

  • 7 self-grading locks, all in Latin
  • Vocabulary from Cambridge Latin Course Book 1 (Stages 1–12)
  • Grammar: present, imperfect and perfect of timet and clāmat
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of Beware the Ides

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — the street, the crowd and the city, in Latin from Book 1.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven things the crowd does.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two verbs, timet ("fears") and clāmat ("shouts"), in the present, imperfect and perfect.
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the street, then count what you see.
  6. Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
  7. Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.

Most classes take about 50 minutes. Students can work alone, in pairs or in small teams on any device with a browser, or you can project the room and solve it together as a class. Every answer checks itself, so you are free to circulate, and progress is saved in the browser, so a room can be split across two lessons.

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