" I've been thinking about the "seeking for so long" bit. It's such a peculiar line. On its face, you think it's pointing a giant glowing arrow at room #45. Then when you know the winning path and the canonical "correct exit" for each room, you... "

" Bequest did not die! It became Blue Prince. And it hibernated for several years. But look, it's coming out: blueprincegame dot com "

" Well, it's being used intransitively however you read it, but I ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssort of know what you mean. But I think the original speaker does mean, "They appear strange," and the Guide means, "You should say they watch strangely," and this is just a play on... "

" Well, I guess not really, but you still might need to read it twice to process that “look” is being used intransitively. "

" I don't think it is! "

" Just for fun. “They look very strange(ly)” is something of a garden path sentence. Ha! "

" The crowned door does lead to Room 4, as confirmed by the door in Room 4 leading to 25. "

" I am going to be thinking about this for a while. Bravo for adding another entirely unique and rich reading to a book where so many have been posited. "

" the crown is door 4? Evidence: 4 nails on the board fallen, and the expression over the door is fear-> fear is similar to four? Not to mention that the moods are placed in descending order as were the first four planks on the door "

" My only meager bit of context I can apply to this is that my brain made an astrological/mythological leap at the mention of "children" the first time I read it. Not sure if it has any bearing but the my of Saturn and his connection... "

" To add to previous post: a way to look at the Maze is to as a work of modern literature, which can be interactive, interlinked, intertextual and hypertextual. The time works different there because of unlimited amount of times the Maze is being solved. The... "

" Hello to everyone! It's my first post, even though I have solved the path part of a maze something like 7 years ago. But it looks like that there are still unanswered questions, so I will try to join the team of deep divers here... "

" It's mysterious, alright, and maybe impossible to answer without understanding the role of the Maze itself. Repeated underworld references suggest this is some corner of Hades if not Hell, and for countless visitors to persist living in the void of 24, it does seem like... "

" For sure. I think it’s easy to forget just how disturbing it is to be a kid and unexpectedly encounter it for the first time. The text also implies that it’s a kind of purgatory. It lays bare the impossible geometry of the maze (no... "

" It's certainly merciful, in the manner you describe. 24 could have just had a door to, say, 35, and then you could go around in circles forever. I suspect 24 is included more for aesthetic reasons than puzzle design. Given Manson's desire to paint the... "

" This was never corrected… how could you, White Raven… "

" In the spirit of the year of room 24, I want to ask… what is the actual utility of this page? Why does Maze have a failstate? I mean, there’s the whole atmosphere of dread the book sets up about it being inescapable. The back... "

" This is quite neat! Doesn’t seem to rely on cheap scares in the same way a lot of other “backrooms” styled games do. Thank you for sharing it! "

" I don't really play video games but I do like to watch trailers and playthroughs of ones that catch my interest. I recently watched some videos on "The Exit 8" and it seems like one that Maze people might enjoy. "

" Happy new year, Ritz! "

" I was doing some room 33 cipher testing, and found that “pitcher signet” has lots of fun anagrams. Pitch integers is a coherent is specific musical phrase! When I found it, I was surprised, but all the other anagrams quickly showed how easy it was... "

" Happy new year! "

" No word here is boiled down to a single rebused object. Maybe that’s even why there’s a nun presented with the awl. Manson thought that “awl” was the easiest way to clue the word, but wanted to sprinkle in more difficulty. "

" It may well be that there is nothing to do but play around with different possible words and eventually find the solution, as impossible as that is. ELVI is *so* clearly an anagram of multiple common words, though, that it seems cruel even by Manson's... "

" I guess it simply must be process of elimination. Other symbols in this room can be anagrammed into multiple ways (shoe + n + u + i = heinous) but it’s hard to work them into logical sentences (“what will heinous evil all.”) "

" Yeah, the mere presence of "live" within "lived" seems implausible, for sure. The fact that "what" and "in" also appear in the text, but "house" and "will" don't, makes the incidental appearance of words in the text too scattershot to be meaningful. I still suspect... "

" wrong = evil careless = vile hidden = veil lived = live Sure, “live” is the only string that actually appears in the text, but if Manson wanted to use that to resolve the anagram, why didn’t he phrase it in present tense? “A careless... "

" "Live" does appear in the text, as part of "lived, but boy... That does mirror "all" also being in the text, given that both are clued in not just opaque but ambiguous ways. "

" Does anyone have an idea -- even a bad one -- what a priori justification might exist for taking "ELVI" to be "LIVE" instead any of the other possible anagrams? "

" We confabulate herein the foremost Trystero missive which we recounted into this Labyrinth, where Night is blind: “Reconnoiterer White Raven, I am a connoisseur of the atrocious. I wish to wax waywardly upon your zenethic achievement. Your exegesis of the odd is an obsequie of... "

" I enjoyed House of Leaves a lot when I read it, enough that I was very excited to read Only Revolutions, and then very disappointed in the little bit that I read, and then curious again to finish it, and then resigned to make it... "

" I finally read House of Leaves. I was aware of its daedalian-ness going into it, but I was surprised at its similarities with Maze. I think they’re pretty much trying to evoke the same things. Maze is accessible and often branded a children’s book. House... "

" Well, my opinion did shift slightly as I was explaining it, from ‘none shouldn’t be thrown out’ to ‘the fact that none is thrown out is relevant,’ so I don’t blame you. Maybe comparing the two riddles is relevant, or maybe the base choice itself... "

" Oh! I see what you're saying now. That's quite plausible and interesting. Sorry, I wasn't understanding what you meant. "

" No, I think that the fact that “all” is directly used in the text in relation to something being on a wall points to using it over “none.” A choice between “all” and “none” is implied, which would lead the reader to scan the page... "

" Do you the occurrence of "all" in the text to be irrelevant in this reading? (I don't intend that to sound skeptical, just curious.) (After all, "in" occurs in the text as well, and I don't think that is meaningful. I think there's good reason... "

" Good points. I generally agree with everything here, and that you’re supposed to insert “all” into the riddle’s INTENDED phrasing (‘all to see’ directly points to it, and your logic makes sense for taking that over a contrivance that might lead to none). However, I... "

" And, to belabor the point: The publisher solutions took the care to specify three different words that would be accepted as solutions to the Riddle of the Maze. If Manson intended alternate phrasings of the Riddle, it would only make sense to similarly list the... "

" Although, Manson's own contest clue says you have to choose between two pictures. If what Manson actually did was deliberately craft a riddle that implied the same answer even when phrased as its opposite, he pretty thoroughly pretended that he didn't do that. I think... "

" Hmmm. I still think that using the contest to filter out solutions may not be wise. “All” may be the official answer, but as we’ve recently learned there’s another intended riddle solution separate from “world.” "

" It's not clear to me from WR's recounting at what point in creation the various aspects of the contest were requested/demanded. Manson received an advance before the book was written/illustrated; the publisher seems to have been involved from an early stage. "[T]he publisher at Henry... "

" I’m not even convinced we have to choose. Yes, there’s all the official contest stuff, but remember that Maze was written without that in mind. "

" Oh, right. You know, I think we're supposed to pick "all" just because the word occurs in the text. I know the problem is that in the rest of the book there's no telling whether something like that indicates a good door or a bad... "

" The world. Eventually, there will be nobody left "

" Relates to the celestial sphere, which seems thematic... "