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The Gates of Janus
A New Year Latin escape room for Latin III
Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 3, Stages 21–34
The great bronze doors of the Temple of Janus stood open in war and were shut only when Rome was at peace. Now, under Augustus, the soldiers are home and the doors are closing. Solve seven puzzles to see them shut.
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 Books 1–3 (to Stage 34)
- Grammar: the passive of claudō and aperiō
- Macrons never needed
- Takes about one lesson
For teachers
Each of the seven locks practises something different:
- Crossword — war, peace and the Forum, in Latin from Book 3.
- Anagrams — unscramble seven things the crowd does.
- Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
- Matching — two verbs, claudō ("shut") and aperiō ("open"), in the passive: present, imperfect and perfect.
- Picture Count — reassemble the temple and its doors, then count what you see.
- Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
- 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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