" hi there, first time maze doer, long time maze admirer. oh boy, where do i start? well, for one thing, this maze book is HARD. let me say it again, HARD. every night i've tried for at least fifteen minutes (sometimes more) and every night... "

" Oh. They are there. However I sort of doubt they were intended because the avoided letters are already uncommon letters. "

" There are 2 single letter lipograms, with the first one located in “DIRECTIONS” ( q ) and the second one located in Room 22 ( z ) . B "

" I see. So... where are the other 7 pangrams? "

" @ritz - Room #1 and Room #40 don’t have the letter “ j “ or the letter “ x “ . "

" I guess it would be more helpful if it was in Room 1- like, theres ABCD, and all twenty six letters of the alphabet. Go to 26. "

" If we accept this as intended and true, what is it trying to hint? It feels like this puzzle can't reference anything but itself. "

" Strengthened by the DCBA in Room 1? "

" In General Comments, WBM pointed out that the text in Room 26 includes all 26 letters of the alphabet at least once, and is the only room in MAZE with this characteristic. "

" It's been noted before that the numbers mentioned in the text sum to 7--that fact can be read in various ways regarding this room. Interestingly, though, if we take that as an invitation to compare with Room 7 (which is a bit of a leap,... "

" Room 1 not only gives you the next door but also Foreshadows some of the rooms of the path for the first clues theres 4 doors and each has a symbol Apple.Bottle.Cup.Drum which is in alphabet that has 26 letters the sun shines on the... "

" For the Directions I realized if you take the pointing hands top to bottom left to right you get North East West South or NEWS "

" as for the title it can either be a reference to the Freemasons or the Minotaur the first clue is the fact that theres the compass the ruler and the pencil but that is no pencil but rather a model of a obelisk which can... "

" I guess I'm just looking for a commonality in the nature of the presentation of the clues than the clues themselves. "

" Im sorry to say this but the door is literally impossible to open once closed because if you look inward the door rather that have a knob has a ring to pull it open except that the door opens inward rather than outward meaning the... "

" I'm skeptical that "agon" is intended here, but I don't think it's like a million-to-one against, I'm just not convinced. However, if it is there, I don't think the rhyming is that big of a deal. If "agon" is meant here, the DRAGON-OCTAGON-WAGON/FLAGON" trail that... "

" I just find it interesting that flagon and agon do not rhyme, and mildly interesting that the dagger comes before the crown. I was thinking it might have something to do with errors in the types of puzzles in the doorways, but that's really REALLY... "

" I'm pretty certain "agon" was intended. But why choose a word that doesn't really rhyme? It seems strange "

" If you can broker that deal, I will provide the television. ANY DAY. "

" Better buy Manson that flatscreen TV so he spills the beans... "

" YES. "

" Heh. Vince, what's your take on the "curated" loop solutions? Do you suppose many of them are fabricated? "

" Maybe the missing periods are a reference to the Room 1 statement that they don't want to be late. "

" Well, the way I see it, talking about "correct" doors in the Loop is a questionable extension of the term "correct." I don't mean that it's wrong--I do the same thing all the time. But 41 is not the right door in Room 10 in... "

" Funny enough, none of these keys would fit in the keystone. "

" I see. I wasn't sure what you mean by "the 'key' rooms." The keys do all seem to occur at funnel points. Anyone who lands in 43 or 22 (and there are a fair number of doors leading there) will have to go through 38... "

" Do loop puzzles even direct us to the correct door? I mean, some do, right? Why in the world would Manson make SOME puzzles tell you where to go, and some not?? That's really really... "

" That, and the missing periods. The loop sure is an enigma, huh? "

" Hm. Well, I'm sure it means something else within its own puzzle in 33. But maybe there's some explanation for its shape. "

" It feels like all these "key" discussions will make a lot more sense once we know what the heck is going on with 33. Everything we find now seems to come right back to it. "

" Okay, so: unless I'm mistaken, there are three keys in the Maze. (And one keystone.) Each key is on a different "tier" (path, loop, trap). And each of the rooms in that tier with a key is pretty vital. PATH key: Room 29, room with... "

" Can you flesh that out a little? "

" The "key" rooms of each tier have keys. More or less. "

" And the full top/empty bottom thing with the dots reminded me of how an hourglass functions, but, err... that doesn't help either. "

" SPHINX DRINKS (reason for multiple liquid vessels here) "

" Yeah, I noticed that WR called them periods too--it actually did embolden me to think that wasn't a stretch of natural language to describe them as periods. (Presumably WR did not imagine this connection, as the Room 27 text on this website does not replicate... "

" You're right on that I guess it might not be... but like: there's no sense of outwards depth in there. It looks a lot like a depression to me. It also helps that the missing dot is on the side of the missing time period.... "

" Looking at my copy more closely, I'm not sure the bottom ornamentation is supposed to be different from the top. It's hard to tell, because it's significantly shaded and the bottom and brightly illuminated on the top. Still, I find this to be an interesting... "

" Oh, holy cow! No, that's easy enough to see here, I just didn't know what you were talking about. "

" I’m gonna be honest, I have never been happy* with the suggestions for how to extract the letter E from this room. The uniform coloration of the ladder gives me E no more than it does, say, H, while picking the 5-face of the front... "

" The time periods panel on the wall. At the top, below the hourglass, there's a little indent with a circle in it, but the identical bottom indent is empty. It's easier to see with the book. "

" I'm not following you here. What you mean by "missing a dot"? "

" ...or maybe not, but there's a missing gap on the bottom. And a missing time period on the bottom "

" Okay, so... The time periods sign has two openings, one on the bottom, one on the top. In the opening on the top, it is filled in with a dot. The one on the bottom? Missing a dot. A period? "

" And maybe "some sort of pantry" is referring to the items on the other doors, which are all food related: APPLE, BOTTLE, CUP. "