" IMP is 38 A is 1 SHH! is 36 (the implied exclamation point is a 1) (eyes and needles) MAZE is 45 it all checks out I was going to try to make a serious post about alphanumeric encoding but then "

" I found door 30 by the salt shaker. Salt is NaCl and those letters numerically add up to 30. "

" Ah, the pinnacle of Western classics. "

" lady banged a bull, dude "

" I would say it's laid pretty bare that the Minotaur is literally the duality between man and beast. It's a bull man. The etymology comes from Minos-Taur (bull of Minos) though, the "notaur" part is unrelated. "

" Is it possible that the minotaur is really a disguise of the symbolistic dualism between man and nature? Minotaur, kinda sounds like “man/nature” anyway. "

" No, that's just standard title case. "

" I can understand why the by is not capitalized, but why not capitalize “ the “ ? Could it be an overall clue as to what can be done or from what one can do? "

" I expect they're happiest in Prologue. "

" I think I would be happiest in Room 10. "

" That is the most Greg question. "

" Where are they happiest? Room 34? "

" This probably means nothing but I find it funny that the guests don't have a great time in any of these rooms. They nearly trip over something in 7, stumble across the boards here, get disoriented in 3, and their couch in 35 collapses. Poor... "

" Interestingly, if you read the text going from 33 to 35, it does make sense of something. One of the visitors sits down "gratefully" on the couch, which is kind of a strange description. Maybe the implication is supposed to be that they have been... "

" We at least have no convincing reason to think it points us to 3. BEE KEY PER[cussion] "

" Could this room perhaps be pointing us to 35 and not 3?? Like, 35 contains important information? "Perhaps in another room" "light and silence" and all of the 3's? And because 35 is a dead end there's no harm in going there? The thought process... "

" Wrong director, this is a James Cameron joint. "

" We are all MacReady and Childs, passing a flask back and forth in the cheerfully nihilistic realization that it doesn't even matter whether we're different people anymore. "

" In belated fairness to WBM, reading "I A M" as "1 A.M." is perfectly plausible on its own. It was suggesting that through multiple layers of obfuscation that was irksome; the suggestion being unhelpful and unnecessary was just the cherry on top. But it's perfectly... "

" I’ve just finished a puzzle of ‘Java Dreams’ by Chris Consani and, intrigued by some of the detail, I googled and found your page. Thank you - I’ll now be looking into the MAZE. "

" I think the real meaning is not everything is as it seems yet everything is as it seems. Sometimes we get caught up in minute details and miss what matters. "

" As someone who loves logic problem books by USA today I was completely destroyed by the visual elements of the book which are my weakness. Congratulations to those who solved it and thanks to the author for a great work. "

" There's no one left to keep the secret from. "

" Vince, it was supposed to be a secret that nearly every member of this site was an alter-ego of the same person as they spiraled into insanity... "

" JINX "

" It seems to be an abandoned project, or at least an indefinitely delayed one. It was originally announced for a 2017 release, but no new information has been released since then, to my knowledge. "

" I'm guessing it is no longer in development. Its website, bequestgame dot com, still shows it will release in 2017, and the fact it hasn't updated since then probably means it was cancelled. "

" Why was the "Bequest" entry taken away? "

" I just did the MAZE with some friends, and I wanted to share our method of walking the main path, which I haven't yet seen on here. In the prologue/back of the book, it mentions a few times that clues might not be trustworthy, and... "

" Perhaps notably, Jason Shiga's Meanwhile was discussed on that show even before Maze. "

" MazeCast was born out of another, equally unwatchable show called SuggestCast, which involved participants suggesting works or activities for the group to experience, and the group then reconvening to discuss. Without my stating or realizing it, I think about half of my suggestions were works... "

" Excessively long post incoming: A lot of the time, I see people asking for media like Maze for them to check out. This is an interesting phenomenon because it seems to be brought about by the scarcity of works like Maze, but the scarcity makes... "

" It's 2020. Maze has existed for nearly 35 years. THIS is the conversation we're having. That "IAM" is "1 AM." In a way, it's comforting, because as much as the world is changing, the kind of stuff here will never change. "

" Well, and Manson, in correspondence, multiple times. "

" The Manson-authored, publisher-distributed clues and solutions. "

" Official sources? "

" 1 AM is not the 13th hour. It's the end of the first hour. 1 PM is the 13th hour of the day. 1300 hours in "military time." It doesn't say "1 AM," however. It says "IAM," because that's "William" minus the "Will," which is... "

" So what would likely be the most ideal time to post, if you were searching for the XIII hour? 1 a.m. (I A M) perhaps? "

" Maybe it's a "wing ring." "

" I'm imagining getting scorned by some community of puzzle-solvers looking through the stuff here and being repulsed by the solutions and comments. That actually sounds kind of hilarious. But yeah, you're right. "

" That seems like a good idea, although I don't know what audience is most likely to be productive for something like this. There's a lot of stuff in Maze such that I'd like lots of people to look at it and tell us if it... "

" We got to the aulos thing from throwing related tales and concepts against the wall until we got lucky. But for, I don't know, the bird ring, it could take years and years more. Would it be smart to post it somewhere like Reddit on... "

" completely inapplicable, but sure, why not "

" Zeno’s paradox? "

" Yes, and when you're in the middle of doing so, the text of one room is aligned with the picture of a different room, with all the pages in between bunched up in your hand. This is a whole new vista of MAZE dungeoneering! "