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The Wolf and the Twins

A Rome's Birthday Latin escape room for Latin I

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

Long before there was a Rome, a she-wolf finds two baby boys crying on the bank of the Tiber, and feeds them instead of eating them. Solve seven puzzles to follow the story of Romulus and Remus.

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 videt and currit
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of The Wolf and the Twins

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — family, animals and the countryside, in Latin from Book 1.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven things the twins and the wolf do.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two verbs, lacrimat ("cries") and servat ("saves"), in the present, imperfect and perfect.
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the riverbank, 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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