" I think the landscape picture stands out as it is unlike the others , all being portraits of a sort. It is also closest to the items on the floor which one of them trips and almost falls over . The 3 pins and 3... "

" My previous comments haven’t been posting but I’ll keep trying… I’m new here so maybe I don’t know what I’m doing. Anyway hello, I was looking at room 26 & realized the “patrons” are Pagliacci style Italian clowns. I recognized them from the Caffe Vita... "

" I think there's one angle to the "forth" words that hasn't been brought up yet. Ignoring the wordplay with "forth" sounding like "fourth" and ignoring the blank, one can just focus on the meanings of the four words. The third and fourth words, "forthward" and... "

" This is a good observation. "

" OMG I don't think anyone's mentioned this. Scissors are famed for cutting, "dice" can also mean to cut, "pear" is a homophone of not only "pair" but "pare" which ALSO means to cut, and the bear is mentioned to be "rending," i.e. cutting things, with... "

" Aria, maybe step 1should read: check price on ebay ;) "

" This has been pointed out before, in passing, but I really like reading a minotaur reference into the Guide’s comment here. “What a foolish face,” I snorted. He snorted, alright! And the goofy-looking bull head of a minotaur is what immediately sets it apart from... "

" Well, it seems like this is finally coming to pass, although less dramatically than in my prophetic vision, haha. Also I’m less of a hipster now so I’m nothing but overjoyed that our beloved MAZE is getting more pairs of eyes on it (in it?) "

" KonTiki! No face-palming here -- Don't forget the first step of "Let's Decorate... with MAZE": 1. Check to make sure you have three copies of MAZE. "

" Keep in mind, the "actual" solutions here are not official. "

" Neither 7 nor 18 is mentioned in the text, though 13 and 6 are. Interpreting the mention of "the end of the week" as the number 7 is a choice you can make, but if you do, then the mention of Friday itself means "6."... "

" Yes, as others have said before, I think the guide is telling us (the readers) to "sum" the 7th day with the 18th hour, the only two numbers indicated in the text; 7 + 18 = 25. "

" I got 30 because I added up all the numbers hidden in the text, such as one in tone and ten in intentions. This got me to 26. I then added all the times the narrator said I. As in roman numeral one. This got... "

" Somehow I doubt it'll get there quite so fast after being auctioned on Ebay. "

" I mean that I think the idea that the second paragraph from the top is comprised of 23 words is reasonably a clue is fair. "

" Heh, that IS tempting... No clue where my childhood copy went. But no, probably better if it wound up being gifted into the hands of some little kid who can be equally confused and fascinated in kind. "

" I think it’s fair, especially considering that the sentence “They looked and looked…every group is the same” has 19 letters, a three dots separation, then 19 letters again, a door 19 indication? And “we must find our way back out” has 23 letters. It seems... "

" The guide says, “What a foolish face,” This phrase has 15 letters. To his guests he snorts, “Pay no attention.” Since he’s mostly untrustworthy to his guests, we (the readers) should do the opposite of what he’s suggesting to his guests and definitely pay attention.... "

" My mother is currently scheming to steal and sell a copy (the one that got me interested 10 years ago) from a friend of hers. If anybody here is interested in a (softcover) copy of MAZE and unperturbed by a book's history of ownership, and... "

" I still have a copy of each. If you're in the market, I could let you have both for a thousand. "

" Three letters F = 6, 0 = 15, U = 21 "Add em" Add them = 42 "

" what about the rails i tote and practical alchemist? "

" Possibly worse, I gave away all my hard copies. "

" I imagine some here are face-palming themselves for having cut up their extra copies for framing the images....;) I'm looking at you, mazecasters! "

" I noticed an Ebay listing for Maze and The Rails I Tote by an account called "whiteravencollectibles". Just in case WR is still active here, is this you? I guess it's also possible that someone else made an account based on something they looked up... "

" I did notice you've been stalking the halls of the Labyrinth for a decade now. It'd be weird if you didn't experience a lunatic phase in all that time :P "

" Well, don't let me ruin your fun. I try to provide some feedback here so that people aren't misled as to the authenticity of these solutions. (I was, for quite a while, which is why my own lunacy is in evidence everywhere.) "

" It's an excuse to English major BS my heart out without (much) judgment. I'm just sad I didn't rediscover the book until Blue Prince went and made it all hip and cool again... "

" Actually, carrying this over to the room's text, we get... something, maybe? There are no 'with's or 'right's in the text. But the fourth word? That's 'Are,' which is the first letter in 'right'. And the fourth space (if we treat the ellipsis as a... "

" Simply reading the words on the sign aloud, one would hear "Forthwith, Forthright, Forthward, Forth." That third entry, "forthward," could easily be interpreted as "fourth word," given that it's the least common of the bunch. Carry that logic forthward and you get "Fourth With Fourth... "

" Most things suggested on this website are completely bonkers--including things I've suggested, and things listed as accepted solutions above. Don't be fooled by the standard of lunacy embraced here! That's not really what this book is about, that's just what we end up wallowing in... "

" "Chopping block" is certainly an object metaphorically associated with elimination. I like this suggestion! "

" Going back through the old posts here, I see an incredible amount of effort poured into mathematically computing the correct path forward, as well as measurements and angles of celestial objects and the justifications for flipping them, and a significant stretch of non sequitur *somethings*...... "

" In the directions it says 'Clues in a series of rooms may relate to one another, and may indicate a path.' The pitchfork points to room 38 and that is a possible indication not to enter that room. There is another pitchfork (technically a trident)... "

" Also remove S an A from Satan and you got TN, which could indicate Ten. 3 real devils times 10 = 30? "

" Two letters are visible. S and A. Remove SA from SALT and you got LT that could indicate Left. Remove SA from the planet Saturn and you are left with Turn. LT Turn or Left Turn? "

" The axe chopping wood kind of seems like a "process of elimination" to me. Could this be a clue that the doors behind the axe are correct? "

" It's an interesting thought process, but it seems farfetched that Manson intended the Guide's stating "you can count on me" to indicate that you should add the digits of the number of the door the bear is pointing at--an operation that involves neither the Guide... "

" I solved this one without looking at the answer. Didnt find the way i thought about it in here. The bear says "sinners this way" so its not door 30, and we know that because we came from there. But then he says "saints that... "

" This might be a stretch, but approaching the room from a tarot mindset you have three staves (or wands) without heads and one with. The 3 of Wands card implies preparation for exploration into the unknown, while the 4 of Wands implies harmony and balance,... "

" how dare you "

" Well, be careful with what you consider "confirmed solutions." The conclusions embraced by this website are the opinions of the creator/owner, not Christopher Manson. "

" There is also a lot of foot imagery which is the same length and has the first 2 starting letters as four if we wanna be more general. This seems more in line with some other confirmed solutions. "

" I think this is an intriguing suggestion. I'm not sure it's the intended meaning, but it's certainly one of the better suggestions. Part of the difficulty in determining how meaningful this possibility is is that there are a lot of words that start with for/fore/four,... "

" That's just vewatkin's abysmal humor! We all object to his tone ;) He's actually one of the founders of MazeCast. "