" Now I'm really wondering how many people in the world independently found the secret door without first looking through the book to see which rooms contain entrances to room 45 (and thus technically "cheating" by knowing what numbers to look for). Surely some people must... "

" I don't know if this solution has been previously stated either in whole or piecemeal, but... Back when I was a kid, my dad came up with what I thought was a brilliant solution to this room from clues in the narrative. "The sun glared... "

" In general, I subscribe to the theory that there are clues pointing the reader in the right direction (toward the center or toward the entrance) even in rooms not on the shortest path. The main reason being that Manson had to realize that most readers... "

" yep, my analysis was flawed ... "

" One disagreement I can quickly see is that I don't think it's correct that you should always go back the way you came in order to pick up the correct path where you lost it. If you go 1 - 26 -30 - 42 -... "

" I don't want to miss the firest for the trees here, but before it slips my mind I want to be clear: That is not a briar rose, and we have no sane or plausible reason to connect this room to the fairy tales mentioned... "

" That poster is a huge hint. It's a monkey, and it says "See". Combine those and you get, "Monkey See, Monkey Do!" When I got to room 29, I saw a guy doing a handstand and I copied him, which allowed me to see the... "

" In Room 4 the Guide says, “What a foolish face.” Obviously referring to himself. The sculpture is goofy looking, but human with some kind of headdress or crown. In Room 7 the Guide says the picture on the wall “wasn’t a very good likeness”, picture,... "

" Is it really a Briar Rose? There’s not really a choice between the 2 path rooms. You can only get to Room 5 via Room 30 or Room 20. If you got to Room 5 from Room 20, then you want to go back to... "

" Can you elaborate on the characters you recognize? I'm intrigued! "

" Room 7 has one "portrait" which isnt actually one. Its blank, possibly a mirror. With horns on top. Not to mention i recognized several of the portraits as characters from plays/books, suggesting the person on the mirror is one between us and its from some... "

" I think you've made several leaps of logic here. There's no real indication that you can get Janus from Saturn, or Satan from the devils. The letters S and A are part of the Riddle of the Maze (q.v. "solutions" page on this site). Many... "

" Geez, I should've double checked my letter count. The foolish face phrase has 16 letters, not 15. And the toss a coin phrase has 15, not 16 ... sorry. Letter counting is very probably not what Manson coded anyway. "

" “The crash echoed from the ceiling and whispered away down the corridors.” A perhaps unnecessarily descriptive sentence. It contains 12 words. No other sentence in the narrative for this room contains a word count equal to a door number. Manson wants the reader(s) to count... "

" The text contains only 4 words with 'O' and 'U' in them, and 2 'spaced out' appearences, as they are displayed with the door inbetween. So, 4 and 2 -> 42 thoughtful Obviously ‘O’ and ‘U’ for us confused through "

" The narrative in Maze is in some ways inconsistent about whether we are meant to identify with one of the visitors to the Maze, or whether the story that accompanies the art is just another layer of the puzzle for us to detachedly ponder. The... "

" Here is what I think is a very clear cut solution to door 30 Part of the text reads: "They objected to my tone, but it distracted them from the real clues." There very next sentence (Her comes the real clues): "The game usually goes... "

" vewatkin: once you get back to Room 1, there is no number above the door to exit the Maze, are we trapped here like Hotel California? To repeat the same cycle over again until we go insane and yearn for 24 (which is basically the... "

" I think the last one spells LOO, british for toilet. "

" Unfortunately, you can’t just go through the hole in room 16; Maze doesn’t work like that. The hidden door in room 29 is completely different from all the impassable one-way doors, because it actually has a number on it. It’s very, very difficult to find,... "

" yes, we know this, although I'm not entirely sure what specific rooms you're referencing. He designed the puzzles in the gallery (but not the room itself, as far as I know), and he designed room 8 but not the puzzle in it. (I can tell... "

" Door 16 leads to a Loop. The shortest path requires you to go to Room 29 where the secret Door 17 lies on the table. It's the only true way into Room 17 which leads to 45. "

" did you know that manson designed two rooms in blue prince? "

" Hello, I am not sure if anyone is still working on this. I just finished the shortest path and when I came to see if my answer was correct I ended up finding that ppl didn't differently even though it still does not make sense... "

" The crown door can be deduced ro come from room 42, because 42 leads to 25 and there is no doorway back. Maze is consistent about showing the exit points of one-way doors (the exception being room 24, where we can't see anything). "

" I may have discovered a "15 Step Path." Here me out: In Room 25, notice the Crown Door is the (1) Door without a number, and there are (7) portraits on the top. (1) and (7) is "17" which is the clue found in Room... "

" Considering how cryptic the rules to this game are, I wasn't sure if I was "breaking the rules" when I first made it to Room 45. Here's what I did originally: When I first stumbled upon Room 25 on a failed run, I remembered The... "

" Long discussion somewhere further in the comments about how *where* the cat ran could indicate the correct doors. "

" Guide points out that the small black cat, is revealing something to the Player, and is glad that the group havent noticed it. I cant think of any signifance of that other than the fact that we can see the Black Cat painting in Room... "

" Yeah, there certainly seem to be instances when an unmarked door is suggestive of which room it came from--though it's unclear why--and putting a symbol over the unmarked passage seems to suggest it should relate to where the passage connects--though that's far from certain. It... "

" Orons LEFT foot is in light, when the right one stays in shadow. In Room 45 we can find a LEFT shoe. Giant Foot on painting in Room 23 seems also to be of a LEFT foot. There is potential connection with other Rooms, such... "

" I investigated more and it is confusing. Room 17 is relatively high so it makes sense to enter it by ladder. However, entrance to Room 6 in the Room 17 have the same kind of arch as the first Door to the Right of Door... "

" It doesn't seem plausible that the moon and stars are anywhere meant to be combined to make approximate a phonetic similarity to "monster." The moon naturally appears alongside stars in the real world, and the moon/star emblem in room 2 is a real-world symbol. This... "

" Several rooms connect here, though--why 8? "

" It would be hilarious if the recurring umbrellas and rain references had to do with The Tempest. Also, I don't think you knew this, but Manson's planned sequel to Maze was named Prospero's Palace. (Though it's unclear whether that referred to the character from the... "

" The leaning placard has a crescent moon and the tripod table supports form a star, "moon "star" = monster? with the lightning bolt on the placard pointing to door 3 which is in the loop. Could it be kind of a lesser indicator to not... "

" This Room is connected with Room 9, thought that curtain under the bass clef, leads to this Room, as it has the shape of number 9. "

" Thought that Room with an Eye sign, leads to Room 8, as those Rooms are connected. "

" “Tempted? Test(...)” Tempest by William Shakespaer, similarly the fish, instead of the bull on the entrance, might be pointing at the character of Caliban. "

" I am not an expert on Shakespear, and I have not read the Tempest, however after the first read I thought, the Guide is the Caliban, a character from that play. There are clues pointing, into a storm happening outside of the Maze. Fish/tortoise like... "

" We've been discussing this suggestion in the MazeCast discord. I don't think that the number of sides on the interior of the wrench heads is really a clue, but I do think there's some value in musing out loud about this kind of thing. We've... "

" This is incorrect. A wrench has 2 ends, with 4 flat sides, so the answer is 24. Counting things can be twisted to mean anything you want. It's not the way. "

" The wrench shows two U shaped openings , each containing 4 flat sides . 44 "

" I thought it was 30 because there are 3 visible devils with their mouths forming "O". 3-O. The room is focusing on sounds, the guide tried to distract the kids from "hearing" the O's while the two guys in the audience try to shush and... "

" Typo. I meant left to right, of course. "