Comments on: Room 36

By: Cheetah

Cheetah — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:52:45 +0000

vewatkin is right. Let’s not be silly and assume there are no rules to this game. If there weren’t, we might as well just teleport straight to room 45 whenever we pleased and call it a day, especially given how many probably unintended things people find all the time when closely examining Maze.
Walton, if you have still not solved it yet, I offer you this piece of advice: when you, after a long and hazardous journey, reach a point in the House where EVERYTHING seems to indicate there MUST be something important here…there likely is. And the way to the solution is through what some might call a fourth wall break, or what others might call just outside-the-box thinking. Not so outside-the-box that it involves passing through an unmarked door, though.

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:54:46 +0000

The directions are included in the “Directions” section of the book.

By: Walton

Walton — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:46:55 +0000

There are no explicit, established rules at all with this book. That was my main point of frustration. In fact, even here people disagree about what constitutes a clue. Even the idea that a “correct” answer to a riddle leads you to death is strange so I’m going to go ahead and look for doors wherever I think fits. My solution lets you get back to the part so surely that suggests it has validity.

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:33:21 +0000

The hidden door is not unmarked, just obscured in the manner of hidden pictures.

By: Walton

Walton — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:27:38 +0000

The f holes on the viola as I said, look like 19. The left one really lacks a round bit at the bottom. And F holes are almost all with symmetrical top to bottom so it’s unusual for that right one to look so much like a nine.

I have found this book impossible for years. I had absolutely no idea what to look for at all. But I stumbled on your website and read your guide which helped me a great deal. I stopped at overview of the maze, because I didn’t want to have too many spoilers. But at the beginning, you say the key is to find a hidden door to room 17. That led me to believe that the unnumbered doors can be used. Because how else could a door possibly be hidden?

By: Walton

Walton — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:27:37 +0000

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:01:06 +0000

You can’t go through unnumbered exits. Those are one-way passages.

However, if you could, this room would connect directly to 45 and 26, meaning you’d be 1 step away from the center, and 2 steps away from the entrance. A useful shortcut indeed! Alas.

Where did you get 19 from?

By: Walton

Walton — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:53:40 +0000

I came to this room in my first steps after discovering that there could be numbers for the unnumbered doors. And I’ve already discovered 7 and 16 were wrong. So I looked for an alternative. The guide to praises the viol, not the viol player. The F holes on the viol look like 19. The neck of the viol is pointing to the only broken arch. So I say 19 is the solution and it is the only actual way out.

By: Kiki

Kiki — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 08:22:22 +0000

The Psalm 46 of this comment is sending me

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 22:36:28 +0000

It’s close to impossible that Christopher Manson ever made such a series of arbitrary and tangential connections, but given the ideas expressed and endorsed by Maze people I can understand why you’re offering these suggestions here.