" A few further correspondences that point toward door 23: Earth’s axial tilt is currently about 23.44°. If the answer to the Riddle of the Maze is World (the planet Earth/globe), then door 23 may correspond to this Earth-related value: the obliquity of the ecliptic, which... "

" Love this interpretation, especially how it connects the clues across the room. The word “taxidermy” (the bear in this situation)—defined as “the art of mounting the skins of animals”—almost directly suggests de-skinning (removing the S). It makes sense to me as an explanation for why... "

" The sign in the statue resembles a bullseye. A bullseye on an anthropomorfhic statue evokes the idea of ​​a man with bull's eyes, wich is a clue about the guide's real identity "

" Another clue suggesting that door 7 is the right choice is the room's theme: music, represented by the two musicians playing western instruments. in western music, there are 7 natural notes: A, B, C, D, E, F and G. The other notes are flat or... "

" in the text, the guide says "choose then!", a phrase that sounds identical to "choose ten", the correct door. The paperclip with the string resembles an improvised fishhook, suggesting the danger of choose door 24. The bullseye suggest bull's eye, wich is a clue for... "

" The text strongly suggest that visitors feel unconfortable in this room due to its theme: "time". The paragraph mentions the visitor's fear that it might be a different day from what they originally thought, and the guide reinforces this idea by stating that time pass... "

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" One thing I noticed: in the monk's picture, you can see a black and white square patern on the floor, or, in other words, a chess pattern. The presence of a religious figure on a chess board evokes the bishop piece, the only one in... "

" I don't think anyone has mentioned the trap doors explicitly in this room, I think it's a good observation. And there is no trap door below the correct door. "

" If you tilt the page at an angle, those vertical lines which seem to be simply shading the brickwork appears to contain numbers. Not just the front face where we can see them, but also the 'inside' of the columns too. Left pillar at the... "

" Thank you. I felt crazy scrolling past whole essays to find this solution. It’s so simple, alphanumeric notation of the only 3 notable letters, added together. No clue if the author indented this to be a solution but I personally admire the straightforward answer :) "

" This almost feels too simple, but aren’t the trap doors in front of 36 and 38 indications that they are… trap doors? As in, the wrong doors. Door 38 is literally a trap door since it leads to a trap room, which could be indicated... "

" 'the silhouette/shadow shows a house over the shoe' Interesting observation, I don't think this has ever been noted before. "

" If you go all around the clock with an alphabet, each letter represents a time. C = 3 (o’clock), E = 6 (o’clock), for instance. Keep going, and O = 9, U = 6. If we multiply, 9 x 6 = 54. Now, the “Y”... "

" I don't know if this is far-fetched because there's technically two correct doors to this room, but on the table there's matchsticks, and if you match the sticks in nearest pairs it leaves one log out pointing towards room 29. "

" 1. W+hat 2. shoe+u = house, the silhouette/shadow shows a house over the shoe 3. will ... woodrow ( ) sun and ( )iam shakespeare 4. awl or nun (all none) 5. unknown---> live evil veil vile, live fits 6. eye+N in "

" The E L L I think is 37 and 17 (if you include the long line at the top of the maze as a 1) which are the next two rooms after taking rooms 29 and 15 "

" Actually remember this book, but just getting around to working on it. I noticed that there are three children in the story, determined from page #1 and the 3 door choices. In page #26 the narrator says: despite the intentions of my visitors, or perhaps... "

" The dancers next to door 14 imply moving around or shuffling? Shuffling the digits of 14, or making them dance around, gives 41, the correct door??? This might be a stretch, but that's something I figured out. "

" It is interesting to me that, genuinely, there is no actual way back out of the maze. You’re encouraged to find door 45 and then back to door 1, but once you get back to door 1, there’s no way in the text or the... "

" What a Foolish Face has 16 letters though "

" I think the answer is no but Alex is working on it. Bill M (youtuber with a series of Maze videos) always uses the color versions in his videos, so he might have them all saved in a folder. "

" My version is simpler: We ducked behind the curtain and room 13 has a curtain! "

" Does anyone know if colourized versions of each page from the CD-ROM game are available on a google drive or something else like that? "

" Guys I think I figured it out. There's actually a 4th letter, U. Which spells SUNY. Which is where the author got his master of fine arts. It's kinda hard to see the U in the picture on this website. It's much clearer if you're... "

" Simple solution: from the perspective of door 14, the hat-box with the X, the suitcase (luggage) and the bed post writes 41 in Roman numerals. XLI X=top of the hat box, a clear X L= The suitcase is part of the luggage, L I= The... "

" This will also explain the order of the notes. The notation says C, A. (Over the door) The room says A, C. From the perspective of the furnace, singing these notes. Giving us 13. A=1, C=3 "

" I suspect the whole room is just indicating "red herring." The pictures give you herring, and the thrater curtains, pitchfork, and "stop sign" are red things. Problematically, we have an octagon, but hardly a stop sign; theater curtains are traditionally red, but for aome reason... "

" One common characteristic all greek heroes have, besides being Heroes, is hubris, or hybris, or even υβρις, the courage and bravery to defy odds. That's another letter H word, even though in greek it has a mark that indicates it as the H was not... "

" A thought: what are we even trying to solve here? This room leads us nowhere no matter what we do, and as confusing as the paths to these solutions are, I consider "herring" to be virtually certain to be part of the solution in this... "

" So, let me try to articulate my problems with "H + OO" being an "H2O" rebus in the context of this room. One, there's nothing indicating that there should be a rebus in this room. Rebuses are not used much in Maze, and the other... "

" The text makes reference to “the room and all that it contained”, “how many times”, and the capital letters O and U. The letters O and U appear in the room flanking the doorway which the text says is ornately decorated and “meant to influence... "

" Actual solution: The room itself is staged as the imagery over door 13. The pillars between the doors are the lines of the sheet music, and the two chairs are the notes being played. The strange shadow on the floor infront of the fourth pillar... "

" Just found this book this week and it's been a lot of fun. I'm wondering if anyone else thinks that its possible that the drum door in room 33 leads to room 20 just like the drum door in room 1. "

" Good point. Also: leap, roar, rend, tusk, and claw are all four letter words. "

" Also, pages are "leaves." "

" I also noticed "use your head" which is in the Directions page for the book. The tumbler is "using" his head to see a different perspective. The blind man is holding a sign labeled "directions," and the group asks: "How will he find his way... "

" I am just getting into this maze book and this room is one of the ones I figured out, since I love the Edgar Allen Poe story. It's not just the "For" syllable in "Fortunato" that is an indicator. At the end of the story,... "

" For what it's worth, I'm playing bar trivia tonight, and we had a round of rebus puzzles. One puzzle was strange strange b b gotten gotten gotten gotten The answer is "too strange to be forgotten." "

" Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the squares along the barrier of the stage add up to 17, perhaps a nod to the hidden 17 door later on. "

" I don't recall it ever being referred to as a rebus. I think when the substitutions you're making are purely semantic, it wouldn't typically be considered a rebus, but I can't speak with a lot of confidence about that. The obfuscated presentation certainly doesn't play... "

" Is WOMANSJEWELRY ("Her ring") considered a rebus? "

" its entirely possible that the poster of the ape can have two meanings, one being the one everyone knows about which is the "NO ESCAPE" thing, but the other is the fact that in carnivals, animals are typically cruelly left in cages with no way... "

" (I actually don't think it's a good rebus, but that's because of standards of rebus construction that have just become generally accepted. For instance, you can find countless rebus puzzles of the sort: GET IT GET IT GET IT GET IT = four GET IT... "

" What's your issue with it as a rebus? "