" Yes, the umbrellas do seem to indicate a path. "

" room 42 leads to 25, not 4 "

" the locked door comes from 37, a path room, so it could be them arguing in there. More towards the time loop theme "

" "...one of the doors was shaken from the other side." There's a time loop theme. The door being rattled is 15 since that's where we just came from and we are rattling the door coming in. Also, the dice from the front say 1 +... "

" From the text: "Too dark" (2, dark) an indication of wrongness "...they had been here before" (room 8) pointless to go back "It would have been a relief to get outside" if the guide wants room 21, it's wrong That leaves 39 "

" err... "you can never tell..." "

" In the previous room, a guest mentions he should have taken a "bumbershoot," which is an obscure word for umbrella. There is an umbrella on the floor. The guide says that "you never know when you might need it," perhaps indicating that they are on... "

" The fact that it indicates a bad door doesn't mean that is isn't intentional. "

" Never mind; The Guide (Manson) says right, left, and leaving a lot, often indicating the wrong door. I should've checked some more rooms. "

" "Leaving the pictures ..." After leaving something, that something is "left"? "

" The Psalm 46 of this comment is sending me "

" It's close to impossible that Christopher Manson ever made such a series of arbitrary and tangential connections, but given the ideas expressed and endorsed by Maze people I can understand why you're offering these suggestions here. "

" The characters on this page have theatrical masks. The riddle of the path is about the Globe. Room 45 uses Shakespeare's globe. 36 is the number of plays in Shakespeare's first folio. The famous speech "All the worlds a stage" is about the 7 ages... "

" The longest route of unique rooms I can see is 32 rooms long: 1 - 20 - 5 - 30 - 15 - 37 - 42 - 4 - 29 - 17 - 45 - 23 - 28 - 32 - 16 - 36 -... "

" Renall, I have indeed wondered this! Having read, with great fascination, the comments on the Room 22 and Identity of the Guide threads, I speculate that there may be a "canon route" that reveals all there is to know about the guide. My (very poorly... "

" All been said before, but: As vewatkin suggested years ago couldn't the 1st syllable of poor Fortunato's name also be an indicator? And to rephrase what DG said even earlier, I only see 10 bottles on the rack, but one of the bottles is turned... "

" Does anyone else find this room unbearably creepy with all those people staring at you? Also, the mirror with horns intrigues me to no end. "

" 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. "