Comments on: Room 28

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:02:17 +0000

I agree with you as to the apparent thought behind the room. Unfortunately, it’s hard to flip through the book without getting a glimpse at undiscovered rooms, and I’m not sure that 28 ever actually catches people unaware.

By: Cheetah

Cheetah — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:17:37 +0000

Similarly to Room 23, I believe this room is partially intended to mess with people who haven’t found the way to the center yet and have decided to “sequence break” and look for entrances to room 45. This room accomplishes this by looking exactly like another room (12) the player has likely been to already, but having a (very conspicuous!) entrance to room 45, thus causing the hypothetical sequence breaking player to think “Wait, haven’t I been in this room? How could I have missed the door to 45?!” I imagine this gave Manson a good chuckle as he designed it.

By: Jayman3301

Jayman3301 — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:11:40 +0000

The U and the D could be a reference to up and down and the saying “as above so below” the image also shows a man after he “ate” something 8 in the 8 could be a reference to the 8 Planets because of the debatable Pluto at the time this room is also part of “The path” and in room 26 there was Atlas which was one of Saturn’s moons which means up so it wouldn’t be the ladder if Saturn is the 6th planet and if you took away the man’s hand pointing away from it you get 2+3 = 5 23 the is the right door

By: sp

sp — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:42:01 +0000

The other posibility is that it’s the shadow that is is painted.

By: Moleman

Moleman — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:30:56 +0000

As people have said the doorway with the balcony could be just a picture of a balcony.

In our group Porter pointed out that if you look at where the light is coming from, straight down from overhead, the shadow on the balcony picture would only work if the picture of the balcony were IN the door frame, so the picture of the balcony is painted on a door. We decided it was undecided.

Later Aelle noticed something which may clear up the question of balcony in this room. If you look closely at the bottom corners of the door frame you can see that there is a single line which surrounds the balcony image that doesn’t touch the door frame. It really looks as if the balcony image is painted on a closed door.

By: White Raven

White Raven — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:13:27 +0000

Yeah, I’ve come around on this. Previously I voted for overcast sky because as a shadow it looked wrong. Actually the light from above is very far above as illustrated the shadows on decoration over the doors and so even though it looks odd to me the shadow is correct for it being a backdrop.

Since we can pass through the door I assume this is a door painted with an image like in its sister room. This could be a case of real=good, false=bad.

By: Aria

Aria — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:11:35 +0000

I hadn’t read this comment before and just noticed the weirdness of the scenery on my own today — nearly fell out of my chair. To me it is 100% clear that this backdrop is fake… I see the pinholes (or whatever) at the upper edge of the light part of the sky, but to me what is more compelling is the sharp line of darkness at the threshold of the door, which is completely absent in 12. (The shading of the scene is more convincing in 12 as well.)

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 02:10:08 +0000

Reference Rooms 12 & 28 & 15:

The picture of the young clean shaven bibbed eating person is an undergraduate student taking “courses”.
The picture of the bearded older man with scroll: this is the Dean holding the diploma.
The picture of the white bearded even older man is the wise professor.
The perfectly square hole in the floor represents a “mortar board cap” for graduation with tag/tassel.
The degree would be an MAS. The DU + MAS = DUMAS. We have been experiencing bells and telephones throughout MAZE that obviously clued Alexander Graham Bell. Here we have Alexander DUMAS.
NOTE: See Room 15 for another important Alexander and ref to Alexander Dumas’ work.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 17:14:28 +0000

In the narrative, the 2 phrases came first then the 3 eee’s =23.

By: Dave G

Dave G — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:42:23 +0000

Why single out the phrase as something to count or the number of letters in that word? Just as easily could be 32 too. That system at the moment seems like it could make any room number you want. 3-tine is better. We know the bones and the fingers are important in a few ways, and the fork looks a bit like a 3. Knife + tine = 9? Could be, maybe.