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…a room that smelled of paint. Faint voices, apparently in an argument, came from behind the locked door.
“You know,” said one, “that sounds like us in there…”
They tried the door but, naturally, it wouldn’t open. The voices stopped when the doorknob rattled.
One picked up the umbrella. “It may rain where we’re going.”
I signaled my approval and, after a short rest, we came to…
- Images and text copyright 1985 by Christopher Manson
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Room Type: LOOP Doors: 14 34 37 41
Solution Summary: [COLLECTION CURATED BY WHITE Raven. SEE COMMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL SOLUTION PROPOSALS.]
● The baton and the umbrella point to door 41, the correct door. [Independent Credit: vewatkin | White Raven] The four posts of the bed + the line of the umbrella = 41 reinforces the umbrella solution above. [Independent Credit: David Gentile | White Raven] The baton pointing at door 41 may be reinforced by a trail of pointers, namely the ballerina points to the dancer with the baton, the dancer’s baton points to the luggage strap, the luggage strap points to the nearest bedpost, the bedpost points to the baton which points to door 41. [Credit: Vewatkin, See related images]
● The smell of paint, ladder, paint, and paint brush pointing at the sign for door 41 all indicate that the sign has been newly painted. The umbrella points to door 41 and would aid a person passing through the door to avoid being dripped upon by wet paint. This is reinforced by a visitor picking up the umbrella and saying “It may rain where we are going” to which the Guide signals his approval. [Independent Credit: David G | White Raven]
● The correct doorway, 41, has one door open and one door closed, the three incorrect doorways are symmetrical, either both open or both closed. Various aspects of the room seem purposely asymmetrical suggesting that 41 is the correct choice. [Independent Credit: Vewatkin / Mazecast | White Raven] [This solution is incomplete]
3 new answers using Bach.
14 and 41 are famously Bach numbers. Google it
14. (B=2, A=1, C=3, H=8), the sum is 14.
41 (J-S-B-A-C-H): (J=9, S=18, B=2, A=1, C=3, H=8), the sum is 41. 41 is also the “crab” or reversed mirror of 14.
Can on ladder = Ladder Canon
This is about Bach’s Canon per Tonos BWV 1079 No. 5 from the Musical Offering. It famously goes up 7 steps (tones) then returns to where it started. Godel Escher Bach book talked about it in 1979.
The ladder has 7 steps and the paint is about tone/toner.
The rattling door handle that shakes next to ladder represents rattlesnake, so it’s snakes and ladders logic about returning to bottom of ladder after 7 steps.
14 and 41 are mirrored so we should mirror.
Reversing the BATON also on the ladder you get “NOT A B”. Bach would sign his name in his music with B♭, A, C, B♮, but in German at the time they used H instead of B♮. So he could sign B-A-C-H as signature in his music.
The phonetic reversal of BACH is CRAB. And a crab canon is a palindrome canon. The most famous is by Bach and also in the same Musical Offering BWV 1079, which has 10 canons (for the 10 commandments).
The case on floor under 41 has an X (for 10) made out of strap, and STRAP reverses to PARTS. Ten parts. There are 10 canons/commandments, so this correct and suggests door 41 above it is correct door.
The BATON is telling us the truth (NOT A B) in reverse. So we should use 41 rather than the main Bach number of 14.
The text says “after a short rest, we came to…”. A “minim” rest is palindrome and a *half* rest. The correct door 41 is exactly *half* open.
(The room seems to be about the SATOR square. Room 37 on the other side with rattling door has NET below TEN. It symbolises TENET over this room. We have the 14 and 41 mirrored here and the ballet poster is OPERA so we can get AREPO. Earliest known SATOR square was found in Pompeii – just before the famous volcanic eruption happened.)
Hmmmmm. Probably all incorrect.
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 claws, a dragon’s furniture has human hands?
Whoops, wrong room. Well, you know what I mean.