The thing with this line of reasoning is that from Room 13 there is eventually nowhere to go but 25 –> 34 –> 10. There is no other route to either the Path or the Trap without passing through 10. So, if we accept that the reader should just be able to figure out that they’re stuck in a closed section of the Maze beyond a certain point, all the work has already been done by the time they reach that conclusion. Effectively, it would be a puzzle solution that requires already knowing the solution.

If you’re not motivated to interpret the room as pointing at 25, the “closer to the end of the week” line seems to suggest door 18, which is literally located near the end of the word “week” in the image. “Six in the evening” implicates the eighteenth hour of the day. If these clues indicated the door people thought they should indicate, this would be an uncontroversial reading.

It’s worth keeping situations like this in mind. The assumption that each room’s clues point at the “best” door is not assumption supported by any authorial statement or the available evidence, and the book itself repeatedly warns us that clues are not trustworthy. The more often you see clues that cogently point in the wrong direction, the less convinced you should be that all clues point in the right direction.

The mention of six in the evening could be a direct reference to the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. According to the story, the Queen of Hearts punished the Hatter for “murdering time” when he sang for her. Though the Hatter escaped her wrath, Time itself took revenge, trapping him in a perpetual 6 p.m.—tea time. This could symbolize being stuck in a loop or heading down the wrong path.

Interestingly, the Hatter also posed an “unanswerable riddle”: Why is a raven like a writing desk? Alice couldn’t solve it and eventually asked for the answer, only for the Hatter to admit, “I haven’t the slightest idea!” Lewis Carroll never intended for the riddle to have a solution. However, due to public pressure, numerous interpretations emerged over the years. The most fascinating aspect is that Carroll deliberately created a riddle with no intended answer, leaving it open to endless speculation.

Make sense?

Many articles pop up about how commonly “millennium” is misspelled as “millenium.” Google shows some intermittent periods as far back as 1530 or so when (based on very little data) “millenium” was more common than “millennium.” The misspelling became so ubiquitous that Microsoft Word ’97 recognized both spellings of the word. (This was changed in subsequent versions.)

In a vacuum, “millenium” looks like it is probably just a spelling error.

Manson said in response to one of the Ask Manson questions that it was not a spelling error, but that doesn’t necessarily imply it’s a puzzle element. He may have, for instance, copied the spelling from a specific source that also misspelled it, and not considered that an error. He may be of the mind, as others have been, that it was an accepted alternate spelling. He may have just been embarrassed.