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The Mothers' Gold

A Mother's Day Latin escape room for Latin IV

Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 4, Stages 35–40

The Gauls have burnt Rome and will only leave for a thousand pounds of gold. The treasury is empty, so the women of Rome bring out their own. Solve seven puzzles to see the city ransomed.

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 1–4 (to Stage 40)
  • Grammar: future and future perfect of dō and servō
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of The Mothers' Gold

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — the city, the temple and the ransom, in Latin from Book 4.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven words from the ransom.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two verbs, dō ("give") and servō ("save"), in the future and future perfect.
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the Capitol, 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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