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Veturia at the Camp

A Mother's Day Latin escape room for Latin III

Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 3, Stages 21–34

An exiled Roman general is marching on his own city, and he has turned away every ambassador Rome has sent. Now his mother Veturia goes out to his camp. Solve seven puzzles to hear what she said to him.

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: imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive of ōrō and vincō
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of Veturia at the Camp

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — war, the camp and the family, in Latin from Book 3.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven words from the meeting at the camp.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two verbs, ōrō ("beg") and vincō ("conquer"), in the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive, as they appear after cum ("when").
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the camp, 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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