Comments on: Room 26

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:55:57 +0000

I don’t think it’s likely that Manson selected the phrase “devilry thirty eight” and worked backwards to a puzzle, and the manner of assembling this phrase makes it seem even less likely.

It does stick out like a sore thumb that you can spell THIRTY and THREE EIGHT in consecutive sentences with some odd wording, but you can actually spell THIRTY with the letters in multiple sentences on this page, and plenty of sentences on other pages. It’s just not a rare assemblage of letters.

You can also spell THREE ZERO from the sentence containing REALIZED.

“Enough lIGHT” at least gives you EIGHT without reordering letters, so it seems a little less arbitrary, though if you follow those rules you can also spell ONE in multiple places.

It’s hard to draw a meaningful conclusion from these observations at present.

By: BoxOfForks

BoxOfForks — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:00:25 +0000

Considering 38 is part of a Three-Room Oubliette with 22 and 43, this checks out.

By: Dim

Dim — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:33:35 +0000

I think there are 3 themes to this room: music, devils and planets. Given the hints regarding silence and “tone” being a distraction, music is probably not it. There are multiple clues towards Saturn, however Saturn -> Atlas is a Riddle clue so it’s probably not related to the door. I think it’s probably as simple as the devils are evil and can’t be trusted, so you shouldn’t open doors they point at (36 for the fake devil and 38 for the real devil,1 is the door you’ve come from)

By: White Raven

White Raven — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:33:57 +0000

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By: sp

sp — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:33:41 +0000

I don’t think anyone has mentioned the trap doors explicitly in this room, I think it’s a good observation. And there is no trap door below the correct door.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:48:49 +0000

This almost feels too simple, but aren’t the trap doors in front of 36 and 38 indications that they are… trap doors? As in, the wrong doors. Door 38 is literally a trap door since it leads to a trap room, which could be indicated by the fully visible devil in front of it, while the trap door in front of 36 is only slightly opened and has no visible devil because it is also wrong, but less bad.

By: Harsh

Harsh — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:55:44 +0000

Actually remember this book, but just getting around to working on it. I noticed that there are three children in the story, determined from page #1 and the 3 door choices. In page #26 the narrator says:

despite the intentions of my visitors, or perhaps because of their intentions.

Since there are three children and they each have in-ten-tions would that not be 3-in-ten and equal the answer that door #30 is the correct next path?

Just a thought, haven’t really uncovered a good explanation of why door 30 is the right choice from other things I have read.

By: Ghost

Ghost — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:37:02 +0000

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the squares along the barrier of the stage add up to 17, perhaps a nod to the hidden 17 door later on.

By: DPZee

DPZee — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:51:58 +0000

“Not enough light in here,” they remarked. “Not very tidy either.”

These two sentences drive me crazy. Everything about this book is meticulously crafted, yet we’re shown a brightly lit theatre that IS tidy?

We know the correct choice is room THIRTY

“noT veRY Tidy eItHer”

which just HAPPENS to be contained in this sentence? ‘TIDY’ is such a chosen word, like it had to be there for the puzzle to work. And we’re left with ‘NO VE IDY ETER’ for the rest of the potential anagram.

Next we’re told “They objected to my TONE”. Ringing bells are also tuned to tones. The Bell is in drawn in the room, but the patrons in the audience are also ‘SHH’ing. TONE is still in the remaining letters of:

“NO vE idy eTer”

so lets remove them (shh) and are left with ‘V IDY EER’.

Secondly, “Not enough LIGHT in here”. People don’t talk like this. They say “It’s too dark”, so I think there’s a second wordplay clue in here. Maybe it means add “LIGHT” to the remaining letters ‘VY ID EER’ + ‘LIGHT’?

And now we ended up with “DEVILRY THIRTY EIGHT”.

TBH, I was hoping it pointed us to room 30 but maybe it’s a future room hint as well, “THIRTY, EIGHT, DEVILRY” which isn’t as clear. Thoughts?

By: Gideon Johnson

Gideon Johnson — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:14:10 +0000

With the multiple devils and the large container of salt, this room is a clear reference to the old superstition “If you spill salt, that results in bad luck. But this can be reversed by throwing salt over your left shoulder to ‘blind the devil behind you.” The key part of that is that it is specifically your LEFT shoulder you must throw salt over.

Combine that with the prose saying “MOST patronizing voice”, the complete clue is simply “Leftmost”.

As for the objects in the room. That’s another hint, as the narrator reacts when the contests “get to close to something” and the correct door is the one furthest from any object. The sign that reads “A” is a clue for the next room, not this one.