" We're drawing connections between things in the book. "

" Well..., if we’re going to be jotting downwards that end with -on, why not try trigon or post something about poston? "

" Oh, ok. I guess the flagon could be representative, but that's a confirmation biased-y stretch. "

" Maybe, but, again, whatever you call that thing, that is not what Marsyas's skin was used to make. (Should have clarified: Midas did not pronounce sentence. In the Apollo vs Marsyas myth, or the highly similar Marsyas vs Pan myth, Midas was the dissenting judge... "

" Yeah, I shouldn't get ahead of myself... But aren't flagons more associated with alcohol than pitchers, even if one image can represent both? The distinction might have been to make the reader think of wine more exclusively. "

" Here’s three things I found and the first thing is what the red herring relates to the back of the book which is false a red herring the second thing is the cracks on the ground make up the word all and the third thing... "

" The aulos/violin pair is sensible to consider. In some famous paintings of the myth, Apollo is depicted as playing a violin or something that looks like one. Marsyas was not turned into a pitcher in any version of the myth. His skin was, in some... "

" It's a story about strings versus a double flute! A double flute that couldn't be played upside-down, that lead to the skin of Marsyas being turned into a wine flask! All of that imagery is used in the doorway to room 33. "

" I think the crown thing is really dumb but I feel strongly about the upside-down aulos and the flask. "

" I think you're going off the rails. "

" Right half: Marsyas versus Apollo: ends with being flayed, negative Left half: A different myth that ends positively? RIGHT SYMBOLS: Wagon- meant to cue "flagon" Flagon- Wine flask, what Apollo was going to turn Marsyas into Upside down Aulos- What lead to Marsyas's death, couldn't... "

" Oh my gosh! "The deciding judges are also different in different versions of the story. One holds that the Muses judged the wind vs. string contest and another version says it was Midas, king of Phrygia. Marsyas and Apollo were almost equal for the first... "

" (Some versions include a plot point about an aulos being unplayable upside down.) "

" Check out the story of Apollo and Marsyas, which connects the aulos and the knife... "

" Gah why can't I unike that last reply- nooo... "

" I know it sounds silly, but it is something wine container + greek flute may indicate, if they have a common source... "

" "The KITHARA, a plucked string instrument, came to be linked with Apollo, the god of the Sun and reason, while the AULOS, a loud double-reed instrument, came to be identified with Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstatic revelry." Dionysus and Apollo both represented the... "

" It looks like an Aulos, which in one version of the myth was played by Dionysus... the god of wine... and there's a flagon "

" Well, there are instruments like this, composed of two pipes or flutes or whatever, joined at the mouthpieces. Wikipedia's "Double Flute" page lists a number of them that look more or less like what we see here. "

" You know what, I'm going to make them all instrumental. Aria's idea was more of a Maze mixtape, but this will be purely evocative of a room's feeling. This might make it less interesting for some but I'll choose songs based on how a room... "

" But if you wanted to clue a 5, this wouldn't be a half bad way... "V" is recognizable as being a 5 and making it made out of fifes would strengthen that. I can't see why else he would make a V out of flutes... "

" I guess you could call this a two-pipe problem... "

" thirsty fifes (I don't think so.) (I don't think it's a double fife.) "

" Fife = Five The V shape was also meant to make us think of 5 "

" Fife V = Five? "

" I totally won't make Room 13 "Superstition!" Haha... "

" tangential lyrical connections "

" this DOES sound like it could be kinda fun but I'm not sure where to even begin with it "

" Aw, thanks! It was a lot of fun to make those. I look forward to seeing your list! "

" I was actually referring to a wiki gnome. "

" I loved Aria's "music to maze by" posts and I'm going to try to create a playlist of 45 songs, each one corresponding to a room of the Maze. Seems like it could be fun, I'll link it when I'm done. "

" I kinda like this one though... "

" Oh, yeah, I like that MAZE revisited idea... "

" the clue that solved Maze "

" I like turtles "

" Not very good ones... I once attempted to make a user-interaction game where the participants had to work through information given to them through audio messages and logs in-universe, almost as if they were detectives in the world of the puzzle. The problem with this... "

" Hopefully, it won’t keep me from finding my position on the stage. "

" What kinds of puzzles have you made, Ritz? "

" But there's the thrill of figuring things out too... It's like that piano storybook, where all the people in the abyss work together seek a way out and stuff, heh heh "

" Okay- this might sound ludicrous, but there is an episode of the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time titled "the Hall of Egress" that just struck me as so Maze-y I thought you all might find it interesting. The main character is trapped within a dungeon... "

" I don't think everyone is Gentile, just this guy. His M.O. is the same, and he has been known to use aliases. I mean, that's fine, if that's how he wants to roll. "

" You know, I have occasionally wondered if he is Christopher Manson... you know the logical starting places translated through obscure means? I wonder if all the theories are just what Manson REALLY used to generate the rooms, and he is now trolling us by leaving... "

" You think everybody is David Gentile! He is not David Gentile. "

" I think your real name rhymes with: Bavid Zen Teal "

" Minus thee. "