Comments on: Rooms of the Trap http://www.intotheabyss.net Solving Christopher Manson's MAZE and the Genre of the Immersive Puzzle Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:08:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: vewatkin http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-23345 vewatkin Tue, 12 May 2026 17:39:47 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-23345 A broken key! (If you assume that the broken key in 38 relates to the shape of the Trap, and/or that the literal crumbling of the 38/40 pathway represent the break in the key.)

]]> By: Uzun http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-23298 Uzun Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:35:19 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-23298 it is ironic that these are traps but it is shaped like a key.

]]> By: Kon-Tiki http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-11485 Kon-Tiki Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:41:57 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-11485 the shadow of the compass (even the lower half) is already accounted for. You can see the whole thing. That line doesn’t come from anywhere.

]]> By: shelley http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-11479 shelley Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:49:01 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-11479 The shadow does look a little odd, but I think it is being projected by the lower half of the compass.

Regarding where I see the map- I guess I am accepting that since the rooms of the trap can be laid out as a key, then the image of a key is a map or symbolic representation of the trap rooms. Maybe it is a bad assumption and leads to false reasoning…I don’t know.

]]> By: Kon-Tiki http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-11472 Kon-Tiki Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:34:57 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-11472 I’ve been thinking along these lines also, but where do you see a map of the trap (unless you think a key symbol automatically signals the trap)? Also a thing that bugs me is that there’s a shadow that shouldn’t be there. If you look at the compass’s shadow you can see there’s an extra line there (it fall across the chisel) that shouldn’t be there. Where does it come from?

]]> By: 515 http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-11467 515 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 05:50:55 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-11467 Good point about 11, it is literally caged in. And the text talks about confinement. And two instances of important in the text, which has the letters TRAP.

]]> By: 515 http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-11466 515 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 05:46:17 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-11466 I think all these rooms have door indicators and trap warnings, I’m just going by WR’s confirmed solutions so far.

]]> By: shelley http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-11465 shelley Fri, 14 Aug 2015 03:30:21 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-11465 The keystone on the title page has a map of the trap on it. A few rooms of the trap have a face on the keystone or in a keystone-like position.
6: face right on the keystone
43: face over keystone, and sort of on it.
38: half excavated face above door.

Hope I’m not repeating info found elsewhere, there are a lot of post on this site.

]]> By: Aria http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-11446 Aria Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:45:36 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-11446 Same with 11. The room actually looks like a cage/trap.

]]> By: Aria http://www.intotheabyss.net/rooms-of-the-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-11445 Aria Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:44:48 +0000 http://www.intotheabyss.net/?page_id=1141#comment-11445 Maybe the broken ladder rung in 6 indicates a trap metaphorically?

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