| Stripe Latin is a game in which you lay out pieces of card so that their shapes and colors fit together. They then form rather pretty patterns, somewhat like multicolored railway tracks. They happen also to form Latin sentences, because the rules of fitting the cards together correspond to grammatical rules; so that by playing the game you can find yourself learning (or teaching) the rudiments of Latin. The little book contains instructions for cutting and coloring the cards, with full-size pictures of each type of card, and examples of phrases and sentences. In the second edition, the backs of pages are blank, so that you could cut the shapes of the cards out. You can’t form all Latin sentences with this limited game, but you are compelled to form only correct Latin sentences. Nor do you have to worry that green means “masculine”, red-with-a-stripelet means “plural”, blue with two stripelets means “ablative”; it can be a lesson, or it can be just a game. You don’t even have to be old enough to read “aquila eagle” or “sumus we are” written on the cards. 8½ x 11 in., 29 pages, colored illustrations. 1994; 2nd edition 2021. ISBN 978-0-934546-83-6.
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