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The Night Painters
A Election Day Latin escape room for Latin II
Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 2, Stages 13–20
The night before the vote in Pompeii: two sign-painters up their ladders, painting a slogan in tall red letters by lantern light. Solve seven puzzles to read what the whole town will see in the morning.
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 1–2 (to Stage 20)
- Grammar: imperfect, perfect and pluperfect of facit and parat
- Macrons never needed
- Takes about one lesson
For teachers
Each of the seven locks practises something different:
- Crossword — the town at night and the election, in Latin from Book 2.
- Anagrams — unscramble seven things that happen in the street at night.
- Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
- Matching — two verbs, legit ("reads") and videt ("sees"), in the imperfect, perfect and pluperfect.
- Picture Count — reassemble the street at night, 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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Latin I · Election DayVote for Holconius!Free taster
Latin III · Election DayThe Day of the VoteFree taster
Latin IV · Election DayThe Speech in the ForumFree taster
