ROME FunBook

Description

Rome is your playground. Curiosity is your secret weapon.

Can you spot enough Bernini masterpieces to score a Bingo? Find your way through a maze inspired by Bramante’s staircase? Crack a Caesar cryptogram before your travel companion does?

Welcome to the ROME FunBook, where your Roman holiday comes with a playful challenge—and the occasional perfectly respectable excuse to order another cappuccino.

Created primarily for grown-up travelers, this companion to ROME: Keys to the Ancient City adds puzzles, games, and quests to your explorations. Take it sightseeing, open it over lunch, or settle into a piazza with a pencil and a glass of wine. There’s more than one way to soak up Rome.

Hand-created by a traveler who loves to play

Author Patty Civalleri hand-created every game and puzzle in this book, combining her love of Rome’s history, art, and archaeology with her lifelong enthusiasm for a good brain teaser. Her curiosity and mischievous humor run throughout—right down to the historical personalities who are quite happy to tell you how important they were.

What will you play today?

• Bernini Bingo: Seek out the artist’s works around Rome and see whether your discoveries earn you a winning line.
• Vatican Tac-Toe: Turn your museum visit into an art-spotting quest.
• ROME-Doku: Give your brain a workout with challenges ranging from easy to extra hard.
• What’s the Difference?: Look closely at paired photographs of Roman places and hunt for ten changes.
• Mazes with a sense of place: Navigate puzzles inspired by Bramante’s staircase and the Pyramid of Cestius.
• Cryptograms and Crypto–Caesar–Grams: Break the codes to reveal the words waiting within.
• Crosswords, matching games, and word searches: Explore Rome’s artists, emperors, popes, churches, museums, and ancient sites.
• Sightseeing quests and visual clues: Put your powers of observation to work as you discover the city.

Look closer. Laugh together. Remember more.

A sculpture you recognize, a clue you unravel, a detail you finally spot—these little victories give you another reason to pay attention to the places around you. Play solo, compare answers with your partner, or invite your travel companions into a little friendly rivalry.

Several activities lead you back to ROME: Keys to the Ancient City for answers, making the two books natural companions: explore a story in the guide, then put your new knowledge into play. An answer section is included for those moments when curiosity could use a helping hand.

Bring your pencil, your curiosity, and your sense of humor. Rome has a few games up its sleeve.