Omnia Oriuntur
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The sun is barely up, and already the household is awake: a tree stands green in the garden, a lamb waits in the field, and inside the house, a newborn has just opened its eyes for the first time.
Seven puzzles stand between you and the morning's full meaning. Solve one, and a little more of the day comes to light — until, at the end, one final word names what is happening to everything at once.
Crossword — the vocabulary of a household's morning in the countryside.
Anagrams — unscramble seven words for the wider world of Roman public life.
Cipher — decode a message, then answer the riddle it asks.
Matching — one verb, unguō ("to anoint"), active and passive, 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 learn what happens, 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 household's morning in the countryside. 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 wider world of Roman public life. 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.
One verb, unguō, unguere ("to anoint") — the oils of the morning rite — active and passive, 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 happens.
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:
nātūra — "nature." The sun has risen, the tree stands green, the lamb is in the field, and the newest member of the family has just opened its eyes.