" I got this amazing book maze last week. Looked at it last night for a few hours realizing there is actually no way in for the living. Therefore ino riddle for me unless I’m a ghost. However... being that construction never stops, I decided to... "

" Wikipedia has an unsourced claim that theaters used to have standard backdrops, six to eight of them, that they would use for different sorts of scenes. Perhaps this room actually does resemble some old theatrical backdrops--though my googling has proven unhelpful in this regard. Anyone... "

" TRIDENT --> RED TINT I think that is unlikely to be intended, but it's a "red" in the room, which is enough to make me mention it. "

" I understand that the summaries on the backs of books are often added by the publisher rather than being written by the author. I'm not sure if that is the case here; the publisher would probably be overstepping boundaries to write it from the perspective... "

" Maybe the text is written to insinuate stopping like with the "overdone" and all that as some sort of meta subliminal thing that's not really part of the puzzle, but "dressing" in a way? Like something thematic about the text to make it seem like... "

" I do think the sign with the bird, cloud, moon and thunderbolt is just meant to indicate "things in the sky." We took a wrong turn by trying to read the shadows for answers. More simply, the door to 30 has "sun" ("svn" technically, but... "

" I know I’ve been the king of “maybe we should think about this” lately, without offering any actual productive thought, but… When we talk about the confirmed solutions in this book, we for some reason neglect to mention the solutions that are confirmed even more... "

" But it doesn't really clue "stop," is the point. Any block of text like this is highly likely to have lots of words "hidden" in similar ways. This would never, ever appear to be anything if there weren't a giant octagon on the floor--and even... "

" Well, I guess it's not really parallel. He wanted to clue STOP in several different ways in this room; this is one way he thought of to clue STOP. "

" Artistic satisfaction, money, recognition, etc., that's not really a related issue. "

" Why bother making a puzzle book? "

" I don't think it's mysterious why he would include the message "stop"; that seems like a reasonable thing to communicate, whether for the realistic consideration of the guests' predicament or just as a warning of the sort the Trap has elsewhere. What I'm saying is... "

" (Ugh, proofread before you hit the Post Comment button.) "

" I think this is a great find and increases all the other "STOP" stuff in here. To me and it's pretty clear why "STOP" makes sense for this room in-world. It's one of the two safest rooms in the Trap, if you measure safety by... "

" I think it's very interesting. This phrase is one we've picked out on MazeCast before as being sort of a non sequitur, and it's also easy to imagine taking the letters "S T O P," wanting to hide them in the text, seeing you could... "

" did u just call me "pink vewatkin" "

" I'm not sure how hard finding short words would be in selections of text like Maze- but this feels really solid actually "

" We all have our roleS TO Play. "

" Usually I'm adverse to making alphanumeric connections from words in rooms, but this one is a special case where this room references the alphabet, so nice work! "

" Well, we do know something like this is at least in room 5, by the guide to indicate there are two correct answers. Hmmm, maybe it refers to how one of the options is 4? And how, since it's guaranteed you already passed it, the... "

" They haven't all been taken off. The trees have been trimmed so that they extend only upward and along lines parallel to the walls of the hall. They are a decorative element. I'm not sure why they have no leaves. 'Gone hath the Spring, with... "

" Yeah, this would seem to be insufficient motivation to include the math sign. Unless this sort of thing is sprinkled around Maze sort of arbitrarily as an indicator of the odds against you, I can't think of a good reason to do such a thing... "

" IT WAS THE PRINCE. "

" And on the unrelated thing, huh! I like your ability to make connections between rooms (35 and 1, 7 and 15, this one). Room interconnectivity, despite being talked about in the directions, is almost never talked about here outside of vague suggestions of some sort... "

" So on first read this just seemed like a cool connection, but thinking about the square odds thing... the idea honestly has me enamored. I mean, it's SO mansonian. A list of odd numbers times themselves, so they're squared, = square odds. Thinking about it... "

" According to thesaurus.com, "square odds" means "fair shake," "fifty-fifty," "even odds" and the like. Perhaps the times table here is related to that expression, and perhaps its includes an inaccuracy to suggest a lack of true "square odds." Unrelatedly: I was thinking about this sign... "

" Why have all the branchers been taken off of the trees? "

" Something it didn't occur to me until now to do, but I googled "millenium" to see whether it had any history (as an archaic spelling, alternate spelling, famous misspelling, etc.) Many articles pop up about how commonly "millennium" is misspelled as "millenium." Google shows some... "

" I think this is a likely solution because the word "second" and the "seventh" letter are both missing from the same board, and they both indicate the ordinal form of a number, implying that those numbers should be used together. Also, Manson has confirmed that... "

" I've seen it in bookstores before, but I don't think I've come across a copy besides that. "

" I don't know if this qualifies, but Rian Johnson Tweeted a picture of his bookshelf at some point (or maybe it was in a video) and he had MAZE on his shelf. (This has already been mentioned here, possibly, can't remember, sorry if so.) "

" Has anyone ever seen a copy of Maze in the wild? Random, I know, but I just remembered being at a summer camp and seeing someone reading it on a hike. I probably would have been more excited but I was young so I just... "

" The word "second" is missing from the list, which is the ordinal form of the number 2. The second "N" is missing from the word "millennium", which is the seventh letter in the word. This 2 and 7 indicate the door to room 27. The... "

" Well said. ABSTRACT MAZE RANT INCOMING: To someone who just picked up the book, the rooms look hard, but in a way like: the puzzles would be tough, not the underlying logic of the puzzles. The actual struggle isn't just getting information but finding it... "

" this sounds simplistic out loud, but the text asking how many sides = reading the stop sign as an octagon more supported, defining it by how many sides it has "

" Greetings everyone, I'm a light-weight puzzle solver and late to this game, but I'm enjoying this very much! Hats off to all of you for your intuitions, ingenuity and skills, I'm amazed. My 2 cents here, for a possible solution (which seems no-one contributed): there... "

" Keep in mind, it's not just the Guide-- you also get a heads up that the clues (puzzles) might not lead you the right way. This is only hinted at in the text past the Directions, but it's a fundamental aspect of the book, and... "

" No matter how you slice it there isn't one narrative lens we can apply to the guide that makes him make sense. So for his purpose, he's written extremely well "

" Ok so I now realize what I wrote basically was just "hmmm maybe but also hmm maybe not" "

" Hmmm... this is so core to how the book operates I'll have to think about it more. But honestly, telling the reader the guide will be untrustworthy is kind of meta-manipulation in its own way. So much of the time the guide is actually validating... "

" I know I've been the king of "maybe we should think about this" lately, without offering any actual productive thought, but... Maybe we should think about this. The parts of the book that give the most explicit warning that clues might be untrustworthy are the... "

" Not that this is implied here, but it would be cool if the group was referring to you as not a good likeness to themselves, as they're kind of supposed to be a representation of the reader. Heh "

" I'm not sure I've ever looked at the rooms with a mind to uncover allusions to the fourth wall. It's an interesting idea, though if it were what was meant here, I think it would take more than a reference to a picture on the... "

" Maybe they're looking right into the reader's ugly face! "

" "Looking at the PICTURE on the WALL they decided it wasn’t a very good likeness." — Hermetically speaking, since there are only a group of pictures on 3 of the walls seen here, could it actually be referring to the 4th wall or an invisible... "