" Thanks Kiki for the post. Hopefully this post helps clarify my thoughts. Following what others have posted before, to read the “This Way” sign correctly you can (1) turn the book upside down and then (2) turn the page over to look at the room... "

" (Life already has an oxygen, it’s oxygen!) I do actually love seeing this interpretation! I can tell you’ve thought about it a lot and I’m glad that Maze connected with you this well. Did you originally come here from Blue Prince? I think you would... "

" I disagree. It's not pessimistic at all. It's life affirming. I just now got done digesting the book and the wiki as a whole. What a masterpiece. Humor me for a minute, i'll try to be brief although this could take me hours if am... "

" To answer the questions: 1– the release of Blue Prince earlier this year sicced a pack of puzzle game nerds onto the Manson market. Previously, his books were uncommon but not too hard to find, and generally went for less than $20. I feel safe... "

" You say "your" as in referring to Christopher Manson, who is different than the site owner and does not use this website, just a heads up. "

" Note that the book reads 81 when right-side-up and 18 when upside down. Also, why would we want to follow Icarus anywhere? 29 already instructs the reader to flip the book over, and that message gets across much clearer than this. A U-Turn sign for... "

" Perhaps the hidden sign behind the stop sign is a U(You)-Turn sign as a reply to the question “what is your sign?” and reinforced by their feeling “all turned around”. That could also make sense as an instruction to flip the book over backward to... "

" I´ve been thinking about the relation between the leters "H + OO" and the leter "P". I think the two O's form the number 8 and the leter "H" is the eighth leter of the English abecedary . (8+8 = 16) The leter "P" is... "

" no "

" Does anyone else see that devil emerging from the stage as the launch of a trident ballistic missile from a submarine? If that other devil is a Voyager probe helping us learn about the solar system as suggested in the posts, then perhaps we’re being... "

" It was someone posting as "Stone Mountain Gang" over on the Identity of the Guide page, back in 2017. "

" When I was actively thinking about this last (2018, when I found this site) I felt strongly like clues pointed to Loki being the Guide. As a trickster and shapeshifter a lot of the other clues that seem contradictory could still point to him. But... "

" and that bottle has a quark in it "

" This room makes me think of atoms. I see classical shapes that atoms were thought to take when the idea was first proposed by Greek philosophers, and I think of the double slit experiment where the wave nature of matter was observed. The ladder reminds... "

" I see lots of signs of the zodiac here — but they’re a bit amiss! Libra is unbalanced, the lion’s tail (Leo) is a “tall tale”, Pisces is a red herring (see posts for explanation), Aquarius is an incorrect formula (HO2 and not H2O), and... "

" It's 17 and 29 that are connected, not 39. "

" The rhyming of umbrella with Pulcinella mentioned in the posts made me think that perhaps the stethoscope and the text is telling us to find rhyming items in the room: Umbrella & Pulcinella Empty bowl & Barber pole Bowling pin & Toothy grin CandlestickS &... "

" The guide tells us that there are 190 doors in this part of the house, counting the gate. Room by room, you can count the doors and if you include the four doors that you cant see in room 24 plus the gate you get... "

" Oh, good correction. I do still think that 32 is the most out-of-the-way room. "

" and room 26 "

" I'm torn about whether it's interesting, but I think that it's true. "

" Sea bag o.k. Isn't it interesting that this room has only one entrance, a distinction shared by I believe only room 14, making this arguably the most out-of-the-way room of them all? "

" Im not japanese, and i barelly know any japanese. but dont some of the symbols in room one look like japanese characters? I think i can se 山 米元爪回 (not at that order) in some places. the 山 means mountain, im not sure if it... "

" Ritz, join the MazeCast discord! "

" How about Apple records, and the spinning drums from Karate Kid Part II? That movie came out in 1986, but those drums are probably some ancient Japanese thing, so it's valid. "

" It always seems weird how many more solutions there are from 45-1 versus 1-45. I have to remind myself that of course that makes sense given the structure of the Loop. "

" I am intrigued by this idea, but also obligated to point out Spin the Bottle. "

" A possible solution for this room comes from looking at what all doors' words have in common: they are things that are spun. The only door that has a picture of something else that is spun in 26, with the teacup (as in the spinning... "

" Forgot to mention the shortest paths: 1, 26, 30, 42, 4, 29, 17, 45 45, 23, 8, 12, 39, 4, 15, 37, 20, 1 "

" I wrote a JavaScript crawler. After adding 17 as a valid option to room 29 the script found 4 solutions from 1 to 45 and 184 solutions from 45 to 1. "

" 10 is the best door, you're right! "

" Mine is, thanks for thumbshaming me. "

" It's the foot of a chair/table, yet it's a hand. This is clearly and inarguably an allusion to the Ten Monkeymen of Moldova who are extremely well known for wearing long sleeve shirts which is what this looks like. Because they are celebrated and well... "

" The thumb is actually what I’m concerned about. Nobody’s thumb is attached that closely to their fingers like that. "

" The fingernails too seem distinctively human--or simian, at least? You're not the first person to remark that it isn't human, though I don't know what else to read it as. I'm not aware of a version of griffins or harpies or other popular bird monsters... "

" Those are certainly human-looking knuckles, but because of the scale/feather looking designs above the “hand,” I always interpreted it as some gryphon-like creature. "

" (Moving it here) The World is healing, Vincent is getting to craft fun theories! But… are we sure that is a human hand? I never interpreted it that way. Are the other fingers wrapped around the ball out of view? "

" Whoops, wrong room. Well, you know what I mean. "

" This is speculative, unconfirmable and meaningless, but-- Ball-and-claw furniture feet typically depict a dragon's claw holding the ball. Could it be that here we have a human's hand, and the room is gigantic, because this is a dragon's den? That as human furniture has dragon... "

" What we see is low to the ground, but we're seeing the underside of the furniture only. If this were, say, an armchair, it would be normal for the underside to be this low to the ground, with a wooden structure extending up a little... "

" Because it's a footstool. "

" Honestly, I think it looked bizarrely low for any kind of furniture. Look at it next to that outlet, or the paperclip. Maybe not the point, though "

" I think it's a table and the tassel could be part of a tablecloth, or the upholstery on a Victorian chair. The visitors are being likened to mice with the mouse holes. If you were a mouse, you would get more protection under the table... "

" "O" and X on the totem could spell ox. And with the horns in the doorway to room 10 could Manson be pointing to the word oxhorns ... a reference to the Minotaur? "

" "Good job on just now figuring out whether it was a chair or table though. I can only dream that if I were to do this for 10+ years like you then I would have your level of talent[.]" I've been thinking about this. (Not... "