" And then Room 3: The text says you go down a long flight of steps. Never been able to propose a good reason for that--maybe the point is to implicate the word STORY--as in a floor in a multi-floor building--which again calls back to Room... "

" there is a LOT of signs that point to people going from room 1 to room 20. i've taken this as the start of a "guest's path," but i'm not sure that Manson ever intended such a thing as a guest path. "

" If this was raised before, it's too buried for me to bother finding: Notice how this room is laid out very similarly to Room 1? Now, take this with infinite grains of salt, but there are correspondences in objects too: crumpled paper here like trashed... "

" Well, "crow" is every letter in "crown" but one, like "agger"/"dagger"; I tried doing that a bit when you first pointed out the "agger." You can get hits for "key" and "bee" in the same way, but no big surprise there. I couldn't find enough... "

" Hmm. I don't see anything else in the text for that, really, but I might not have the right words to connect it to yet. I guess crowded could be... "crow"ded? For the bird on the ring? An identifier? No... "

" In isolation it seems unlikely. There might be similar text-image connections that make it seem more plausible. It's worth considering, certainly. "

" Do you think the "agger" pair might have been intended? Probably not, I mean they don't rhyme and nothing is linking the word and the image... "

" Well, like it or not, there seems to be some element of this stuff going on in the book. There might not be any larger or well-formed puzzles around it. It might be as simple as: You go to 20, there's the Tarot card and... "

" Good thing I brought my projectile flagons! "

" I've got a feeling people don't like this "two items vaguely share letters/sounds" talk because it complicates an already complicated room with "paths" of sounds with no cut-off point for where they are not conceivably connected... "

" Okay, but imagine him shouting it from across the room while wielding a fencing rapier. "

" Alyssa, please retract the allegation that that remark was clever. "

" I haven't had any issues pasting things in here. I don't think I've ever encountered anything like that on any website. Oh, maybe I'm misunderstanding. What exactly is happening, and what are you trying to paste in? "

" I was actually trying to see if you noticed the acronym related to “battle of wits” (bow), being the top part to a key, as well as the MIND TRAP reference. "

" I think that may be one of the only clever things you've said in your entire tenure here. "

" I was hoping for a battle of wits but it would be wrong to attack someone who’s totally unarmed. "

" Seriously though there are 23,100,000 results for "bottomless" on google and this one is somehow the most relevant?? I don't understand in the slightest "

" King Henry the Eighth was a GNOME!? My theory has been confirmed! "

" Just as King Henry the VIII gave his wife a bottomless container to put flesh and blood in, so too would a room without a floor (or ceiling for that matter) be exceedingly relevant, in a scenario such as this. "

" Alyssa, don't you get it? The gnomes are hiding in there! "

" can u dont "

" The room with no floor could be a bottomless container to keep flesh and blood. "

" I'm glaring at you through this screen. I thought you should know. "

" Another thing, if it hasn't been said already: In room 25, the guide narrates "Though one of my parents might be lowborn, the other was close to a king;" In mythology, the Minotaur's parents are a sacrificial bull, who you could argue is low-born, and... "

" I've only had that problem in the future, but not the past. "

" Has anybody else had problems pasting things in and then posting them in the past? ITA drops the connection everytime I try. "

" dAGGER exAGGERated "

" SIGNal in room 35 "

" Heck, the floor even looks like a bunch of clue paths crashing into each other! "

" I don't know that it would be too easy so much as that we don't know what order we'd be assumed to read them in. Manson could just as easily have expected us to read foreground->background as expect us to read left->right. "

" Countdown to "it would be too easy..." in 3...2... "

" But if we took it to be a salpinx, that shares the ending of 'sphinx.' If the water vessel here is also a flagon, that shares an ending with 'octagon.' The signet contains the entirety of 'sign.' I want to suggest this for consideration, but... "

" I know it's an unneccesary thing to point out, but why not just draw them in the order they appear in for the concept you're trying to cue? "

" Yeah, I stopped short in the Loop because that's where the discussion came up, but conspicuous absences are not the exclusive province of the Loop, and after starting to compile a hasty list I'm not even really sure they're particularly concentrated there. "

" And the missing "l" in millennium in the above comment. "

" Don't forget the missing N in milennium in Room 13. There's also the missing string and bow from the violin in Room 33. "

" They are perfect little tilted diamonds, which is easy enough to prove to yourself using a zoomed photograph if you care to do so. "

" Just re-read your comment and realized I misinterpreted it a bit. This is still quite interesting. "

" Conspicuously missing things are important *everywhere* in the Maze. Here's the Path rooms for instance: 1: The missing chain of letters for FABLE. 26: ? 30: The only door missing a major indicator is correct. 42: Missing item from a pair, both the shoe and... "

" On the subject of missing things: It was hypothesized elsewhere that conspicuously missing things may be of special import to some rooms in the loop. Just wanted to start a new thread to play with that a little. 33 is missing a floor 7 has... "

" (I think a general aspect things being missing or lost in the loop is pretty self-explanatory- you can't even really call it my idea. Though it would function more as an aesthetic for clues.) The periods don't look like diamonds to me. They just look... "

" Ritz, I agree that lost or missing things sems to be a theme in the Loop. ("Are you sure it's the hat that is lost?") I sincerely hope that my endorsement does not unduly bias people against your idea. "

" Manson insisting on a particular typeface or a particular feature of a typeface is not that farfetched. He's demonstrably interested in typography and old-school printing technologies. (See crookedcrowpress dot com.) If we're going on the premise that the missing-period typo is intentional, I don't think... "

" The dagger comes before the crown in this image. What should we make of that? "

" Forget the connection I made BUT there is still notably a lot of missing stuff in the loop "