" Explain further, unless it's something crazy. "

" I found the "real" sign! Now what? B "

" I came up with Door 23 because of ELVI. E=5 L=12 and VI could be roman numerals for 6. 5+12+6 = 23. Also I thought there were lots of pairs of objects and many 3 letter objects. 2 eye/I's, 2 shoes (horseshoe), 2 "hats", 3... "

" My thoughts were there are 2 nails and 9 pieces of wood. "

" This is exactly how I came up with 42. "

" I thought the Devil holding the A represented an Angel and Devil sitting over your shoulders. (Always depicted with the Angel on your right and the Devil on your left which fits if you are facing out from the stage with them behind you.) So... "

" What a classic book. I still buy copies as gifts. "

" I realise this is not entirely a comment meant for replies, but this garrulous atrocity you have written is too fascinating for me not to ask about. Surely, surely this must be a joke? But why? "

" Is the Guide's line about how he's "always hated confinement" a reference to how he'd been forcibly confined to the Labyrinth? It would be another hint that the Guide is the Minotaur. "

" Certainly possible, but it is important to remember that the image for the loop, as well as all diagrams made for this puzzle, weren't created by Manson. It is my belief that the creator of the image just happened to arrange the rooms in a... "

" It certainly seems to be that way, seeing that Pasiphae was the only family member that directly deceived the Cretan Bull. It is worth noting that the Cretan Bull has often been a victim of 'deception,' usually when great heroes capture him. Theseus waits until... "

" I like your observation about the light; Room 8 emphasizes that a single bulb lights the room, and Room 6 refers to a feeble light from above. I'm not sure this is what's intended, because the characters also reference rain, implicitly coming from the same... "

" The ladder leads to room 8, which has a feeble light (rooms 17 and 32 do not). The beam may have two arms; 6+2=8 (probably a coincidence). "

" If you know the reference for the scale, then the far left door may be an escape from the trap to room 42, as the references to 42 and 43 above actually are the rooms the doors lead to. That may be the author’s biggest... "

" Room 21 is above Room 22, which is next to Room 43. "

" I'm very pleased to have found this site! I think it's wonderful what you've accomplished here. About the cover, I would venture to guess that the red herring above the door is meant to dissuade puzzlers from using the cover page in any analysis of... "

" It's not to me, anyway. If there is something discoverable here, your history of implausible suggestions (and the general history of the site, and the particular instances of commenters claiming solutions they would not explain plainly) discourages us from putting strenuous effort into divining it. "

" Isn’t it obvious? "

" You just mean because the letters are in there? "

" You’re a smart enough fellow. And I’m sure that you’ll be able to figure ti out, sooner than you think. "

" I don't see the part where it spells out "labyrinth." "

" "Like Atlas, you bear it on your shoulders." - From my point of view, I am starting to think that this 8 letter phrase has some sort of connection which involves an acrostic poem. It seems to be a hendecasyllabic clue, in order to spell... "

" The statue's shadow seems to be pointing to the unmarked door 20, indicating (Like in 25 with the crown over the unmarked door) that the locked door is the choice we should take, meaning we have taken a wrong turn. "

" Thanks, I'm still hoping for another Ask Manson. "

" I admire your optimism, Derek! "

" Oh well, it is as it is. "

" I think it's just the shape of an A that does it. "

" In the book, where it says "THE NEXT PAGE", why does the letter "A" in the word "ƿæᵹe" seem to be formed from what appears to be two hands coming together? "

" I vote yes for the Main Solution Summary and the Laughing Clown one (which is a perfect anagram) "

" 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 a preternatural order, your constant gorgon’s knot being one of a superlative urgency of the constrained pieces... "

" 18 and 36 are also the only room numbers of the loop that are deficient numbers, but this extra similarity doesn't have much significance "

" For this room, if you played one octave of the chromatic scale you would have played thirteen notes A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A "

" This idea makes me think of Room 36 with the same music-related solution and the guys playing the guitar and viol. Shadows dancing to the fire's music and the music stuff above the doors is definitely music related. In 36, the Guide says that the... "

" I think this is a pretty straightforward solution. "

" the eye on the ship is most likely the Eye of Horus (it's on a ship to Troy in an image I found, and it resembles the one in this room). Horus is the main god of representing the cultural wisdom of the Egyptians, and... "

" Or rather, not a clue. "

" MAYBE EYES KNOW they don't "

" Okay, here's the weirdest one Eye got: There are a total of 17 I's in the text. Now if you get rid of all the punctuation, spaces, and letters that are not E or Y, you should end up with this sequence: (made it all... "

" Never mind eye can't count, there's actually 11 I's there. but 10 total Y's in the text and: 24 E's in the last two paragraphs plus one E when you go through the maybE/yEs door (when you fill in the "..." at the end of... "

" Just noticed that "MAYBEYES" might mean MAY + B (be) + EYES. A conformation maybe? (about the eye stuff) Also, the two E's in EYE add together to make ten while the Y = 25 EYE just thought that was interesting... And ten total I's... "

" I was talking about how that math you did was not a clue intended by Manson. "

" While what you say could certainly be true, at the same time, one should always remember that words are only like fingers pointing, to start to get us where we need to go, and have no absolute intrinsic meaning. One can not point to any... "

" There's a game I play sometimes where I take four digits generated at random and see how many consecutive numbers I can generate by putting basic operators between them (and rearranging them as necessary). So--well, let me demonstrate. I just used random dot org to... "

" …the entrance hall of the Maze. - I noticed that the number of e’s (in this partial sentence) is a total of five. Five multiplied by the number of words (six words) equals thirty. Thirty minus the number of stops (three stops before "the" and... "

" Just want to record a note that Owen Hammer received confirmation from Manson that the "E" in this room does indeed come from the final letter in the words for the objects as 515 states here. (See March 29 2019 Mazecast.) "