Alexandrīa
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A merchant ship has just sailed into the harbor at Alexandria, its hold full of goods from further east still — silk, ivory, glittering stones. But one small bag holds something set apart from the rest of the cargo: a single gift, meant for a king, carried the whole way under a single star.
Seven puzzles stand between you and the gift itself. Solve one, and the voyage comes into focus — until, at the end, one final word reveals what the sailor found waiting at the end of it.
Crossword — the vocabulary of a harbor at Alexandria.
Anagrams — unscramble seven words for the goods and dangers of the port.
Cipher — decode a message, then answer the riddle it asks.
Matching — two verbs, nāvigō and portō ("to sail," "to carry"), in every tense you know.
Picture Count — reassemble a scattered scene, then count what you see.
Odd One Out — find the mismatched word in each row to reveal what the sailor did, then answer questions about it.
Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters, rearranged, spell the final word.
Every answer box checks itself instantly. Spelling and capitalization are forgiving — macrons are never required.
Fifteen words from a harbor at Alexandria. Every clue gives the English meaning; you supply the Latin. Fill the grid — every crossing letter must agree both ways. Six cells are marked in red: once the grid is solved, their letters unscramble into one more word.
The grid is correct. Unscramble the six red letters:
Seven words for the goods and dangers of a busy port. Unscramble each one.
A message has been shifted 3 letters forward through the alphabet. Shift each letter back 3 to decode it — the message speaks for itself. Answer the question it asks, in Latin.
Decode the message — it already asks its own question at the end.
Two verbs, nāvigō, nāvigāre ("to sail") and portō, portāre ("to carry") — everything a voyage from the East requires — in every tense you know. Drag each English meaning onto its matching Latin form.
The picture below has been scattered into 24 pieces — click two to swap them. Each piece locks in place once it's correct. When the whole picture is assembled, five counting questions will appear — in Latin, they ask quot ("how many") of each thing you can find.
Click two pieces to swap them. Correct pieces lock in place — keep going until the whole picture is assembled.
In each row, three tiles belong together and one doesn't. Drag out the odd tile. Find all 15 to learn what the sailor did.
Now that the story is whole, answer these in Latin:
One clue from every lock you solved. Answer each in Latin — the first letter of each answer will reveal itself, in the order the locks appeared.
You're almost there! Arrange these letters to make a word.
The password was:
noctis — "of the night." Under that same star, the ship reaches port and the gift is finally delivered.