" Im not japanese, and i barelly know any japanese. but dont some of the symbols in room one look like japanese characters? I think i can se 山 米元爪回 (not at that order) in some places. the 山 means mountain, im not sure if it... "

" Ritz, join the MazeCast discord! "

" How about Apple records, and the spinning drums from Karate Kid Part II? That movie came out in 1986, but those drums are probably some ancient Japanese thing, so it's valid. "

" It always seems weird how many more solutions there are from 45-1 versus 1-45. I have to remind myself that of course that makes sense given the structure of the Loop. "

" I am intrigued by this idea, but also obligated to point out Spin the Bottle. "

" A possible solution for this room comes from looking at what all doors' words have in common: they are things that are spun. The only door that has a picture of something else that is spun in 26, with the teacup (as in the spinning... "

" Forgot to mention the shortest paths: 1, 26, 30, 42, 4, 29, 17, 45 45, 23, 8, 12, 39, 4, 15, 37, 20, 1 "

" I wrote a JavaScript crawler. After adding 17 as a valid option to room 29 the script found 4 solutions from 1 to 45 and 184 solutions from 45 to 1. "

" 10 is the best door, you're right! "

" Mine is, thanks for thumbshaming me. "

" It's the foot of a chair/table, yet it's a hand. This is clearly and inarguably an allusion to the Ten Monkeymen of Moldova who are extremely well known for wearing long sleeve shirts which is what this looks like. Because they are celebrated and well... "

" The thumb is actually what I’m concerned about. Nobody’s thumb is attached that closely to their fingers like that. "

" The fingernails too seem distinctively human--or simian, at least? You're not the first person to remark that it isn't human, though I don't know what else to read it as. I'm not aware of a version of griffins or harpies or other popular bird monsters... "

" Those are certainly human-looking knuckles, but because of the scale/feather looking designs above the “hand,” I always interpreted it as some gryphon-like creature. "

" (Moving it here) The World is healing, Vincent is getting to craft fun theories! But… are we sure that is a human hand? I never interpreted it that way. Are the other fingers wrapped around the ball out of view? "

" Whoops, wrong room. Well, you know what I mean. "

" This is speculative, unconfirmable and meaningless, but-- Ball-and-claw furniture feet typically depict a dragon's claw holding the ball. Could it be that here we have a human's hand, and the room is gigantic, because this is a dragon's den? That as human furniture has dragon... "

" What we see is low to the ground, but we're seeing the underside of the furniture only. If this were, say, an armchair, it would be normal for the underside to be this low to the ground, with a wooden structure extending up a little... "

" Because it's a footstool. "

" Honestly, I think it looked bizarrely low for any kind of furniture. Look at it next to that outlet, or the paperclip. Maybe not the point, though "

" I think it's a table and the tassel could be part of a tablecloth, or the upholstery on a Victorian chair. The visitors are being likened to mice with the mouse holes. If you were a mouse, you would get more protection under the table... "

" "O" and X on the totem could spell ox. And with the horns in the doorway to room 10 could Manson be pointing to the word oxhorns ... a reference to the Minotaur? "

" "Good job on just now figuring out whether it was a chair or table though. I can only dream that if I were to do this for 10+ years like you then I would have your level of talent[.]" I've been thinking about this. (Not... "

" I think the previous responses to you have been adequate, but I want to add a couple things. 1) Logic and probabilistic reasoning are not going to persuade you that your solutions are implausible, just as they played no part in convincing you the solutions... "

" Your solution uses many of the room’s elements outside of the contexts they’ve been presented. (If only the scissors matter, why do all the other pictures clue “pair”? Why is “help them to return” about line endings when it has a place in the overarching... "

" Reading your second comment more thoroughly, I now realize you did pretty much explicitly say you didn't P-hack, so I'm sorry if I made a false accusation. But I do still think the solution line is highly suspect. I don't know how "bear claw pointing... "

" Blitzerland, there's a thing that in science is called "P-hacking", where instead of creating a hypothesis, gathering data to test it, and then analyzing it (what you're supposed to do), you instead first gather a bunch of data and then test many possible hypotheses using... "

" vewatkin: I have not received your reason/logic on why my Room 42 solution is so wrong. The probability of 4 letters on ends of words adding to 88 - which they needed for "rend by claw" (22) to divide it neatly to 4 - is... "

" Reading the above comments and explanation I can see I missed a lot in this room. I chose Door 26 for a different reason: the "ringing behind one of the doors" seemed to indicate 26 because "Fable" is a kind of phonetic near-anagram of "A... "

" Vince is what we’d call jaded. A few years ago, someone joined the site and spent some time posting a lot of solutions of dubious quality. Eventually they got bored and it became more obvious they were a troll until eventually they ruined the website... "

" My comment there was needlessly insulting. I could have voiced my skepticism without impugning your sanity. I'm sorry for this hostility. There have been a number of times in the past when users have shown up, spammed the site with implausible nonsense, and not only... "

" Why are you doing this? "

" It's not part of a bike, though. "

" Cool, well a "spindle" goes right through the middle of a bike wheel so everything I wrote about bike parts in room and enTIREly is valid using double meaning of "spindle". I could ask how the object being part of a chair or table is... "

" The phrase between 2 commas is "considering their predicament". "considering" -> con-side-ring. As a prefix "con-" means "with". "predicament": in logic is defined as a category or state. The door with a category/state of with-side-ring is door 3 as it has a picture of a... "

" The internet suggests this piece is called a spindle. "

" Or, sorry, chair, more likely. Whatever the giant furniture is. "

" It's an element of the table. "

" Do you have a better answer for the shape above the 10 sign, than it being the shape at the center of a bike wheel? "

" The rattling sound is the group trying to open the locked door. This is part of the time loop you're analogizing to a snake for unclear reasons. "

" Unfortunately, a belief that Manson intended a single step in this process is not the product of a rational mind. "

" The pictures suggest AWL and NUN because they are homophones of ALL and NONE. This is part of the Riddle of the Maze. Manson's clue for solving this part of the riddle isn't super descriptive--"You must choose between two pictures." But the reason for choosing... "

" Among other difficulties, there is no bike wheel hub. "

" > "" “PAY no atTENtion to anything I say.” I knew they couldn’t AFFORD not to lisTEN to me entirely… "" Ten is linked to afford/paying for what the guide says. Use the word "enTIREly...": Above the 10 is the hub of a bike wheel,... "

" The artworks may be referencing Null Ciphers / Steganography. Null ciphers are about hiding messages in plain text, which MAZE does. PINPRICK: Pinprick concealment cipher was a common method to hide messages. Adding little dots to letters to spell message. NUN: First some background. Acrostics... "