" I think it's true that the dice have to be straightforwardly read as crying 20. The "from all sides" language begs us to see 15 on the closest die, at least. (10 is less definite, I think, for reasons tangential to my main point here.)... "

" Is the wovenness important, or do you just mean to emphasize that they're both rope? "

" The net is made of rope (ok, maybe fiber of some sort, but I assume it is woven). The ladder is a rope ladder (rope is woven). "

" The mouth of the bell is pointing towards room 30, and the text references sound several times. "

" The text references a ringing sound. The only door picture that makes sound is the drum. I always thought this was a clue to the right path, but I guess I was wrong. :( "

" Well, he has SAINTS, SINNERS, EVE, devils, angels, "pair o' dice"...I don't think he shied away from superficial references to Christian mythology, just from serious religious messages. Nevertheless--a devil, the devil; Minos, the judge of Hell--the logic could work whichever way we're to be misled.... "

" I see what you are getting at, and it sounds possible. So if there really are secret puzzles hidden within the book to uncover the guide's identity rather than it just being strongly hinted at, then this room could be meant as a clue for... "

" A possibility that has shockingly never occurred to us is that the "herring" referenced here is the narrative's suggestions about the guides identity. This one of the key (and few) rooms that points somewhere other than the Minotaur, with its talking of judgment suggesting, most... "

" David Gentile, of all people, was an early detractor of the pair interpretation, and in hindsight I think he had the better of the argument (until he started offering his own interpretation). Absent the knowledge that we want to go to 4, I don't think... "

" Edit: Final Thoughts Pardon the imminent wall of text. I had forgotten to address the obvious trident in the room. This detail rules out the possibility that the entire room is a gag since that does not account for the presence of the trident. Running... "

" I feel that almost all of the work for this room has been done for a long time now. I agree with everyone here that, assuming that there is information to be gained from this room at all, each poster corresponds to a word. The... "

" Hello all. New to the site but not to MAZE. Finally have some time on my hands to go through this book again! Hoping to offer whatever insight I can gather alongside everyone else. That means I have yet to comment my thoughts on any... "

" I hadn't even realized that the pictures on the wrong doors were pairs - I just thought 4 was the right door because the salt and pepper shaker was a reference to the salt shaker in 26 earlier on the path. "

" Sorry, we only like contests that are already over and were impossible to win. "

" The text seems to reference multiple objects on each page, and I've taken those at hints at possible words to use on each page, that don't indicate clearly which one is the correct one. Do you mean to say that the text points uniquely to... "

" This group is interested in puzzles with $10,000 prizes, right? Well, there's a new one out. If you're in the US you can enter The Puzzler Hunt (no purchase necessary) and compete to be the first to solve a series of puzzles inpsired by A.J.... "

" There is definitely a distinct clue in the text on each page. I put a post-it note on each page and listed all of the word possibilities starting from beginning forward and then the end backwards. The cows behind the gate page was the trickiest... "

" "A fork eight" as a stand-in for "advocate" seems far-fetched, but "play the devil" is an expression in its own right--albeit a less common one. "

" I'm not sure it's helpful, but 'play devil's advocate' is kind of hidden in a say-what-you-see. We are watching a play. 'They gathered around' suggested to me that I should for something in a circle. If you start with the mechanical devil and loop down... "

" Or, the ladder could be read as in front of 41, which the laddery part of the ladder is. "

" DANCES is an anagram of ASCEND, and those are indeed images of two different dances that we see at by 14. We've tried calling them STEPS, DANCERS...DANCES seems as sensible a read on those images as anything else. I'm not sure that would suggest 41.... "

" It's done! (Sharing it here too if that's not redundant) eYsMyoOEw1g <--- that's the youtube code "

" This is something I've never thought about before and a clever theory! It makes sense to think of the volcano as clueing the word "eruption" as opposed to just the word "volcano," since Manson probably probably would have been confident he could do that without... "

" A TALE OF UP OR DOWN This is in regards to whether 4 or 1 comes first, since there are plenty of clues mentioned that indicate both 4 and 1, but no specific order. Vince pointed out that the umbrella and the ladder, and indeed... "

" I guess I did it more for the sake of just having the definitions of both up to think about, I don't know... I should never doubt if you'll validly verify veracity Vince! "

" I wasn't actually so incurious that I didn't look "Acheron" up, but I thought it was appropriate to leave my mistake up, and receive the shame it merited. "

" Acheron is the river at the entrance of the underworld and Achelous is a different river, with the god Achelous being the personification of it. Achelous is related to horns and pitchers indeed (his fight with Herc/Heracles where his horn got torn off, poor guy...)... "

" Also, "Achelous" doesn't end with "-on." I was thinking of Acheron, who I was reading about for some reason. I can't even remember who Achelous is. Or Acheron. "

" My fault, everybody. I should have asked whether we could EACH come up with a bad idea by the end of the year. "

" Well, I was thinking specifically of 33's pitcher and horn, and the -on ending. "

" For my suitor was a river-god, Achelous, who in three shapes was always asking me from my father—coming now as a bull in visible form, now as a serpent, sheeny and coiled, now ox-faced with human trunk, while from his thick-shaded beard wellheads of fountain-water... "

" And a bull! "

" Achelous is associated with both a horn and a pitcher. "

" Merry Christmas, everybody! Can we all come up with one more bad idea before the end of the year? "

" something something room 13... Genuinely though that is so impressive! I really admire the dedication! "

" Not at all a fully formed solution, just some observations about this room: “Not enough light in here” = dark “Dark thirty,” or “O dark thirty,” or “zero dark thirty” are common military sayings for some unspecified but awful time to be woken up before... "

" time sucks, screw time "

" Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I can't believe INTO THE ABYSS is 8 years old, and MAZECAST is 7 years old. Time flies when you're having fun. "

" Coming back here and reading all the old posts inspired me to make this consolation "

" So lovely to see you too! And aww, I'm glad you think so- but it's funny I'm reading this as I WORK ON A NEW MAZE NONSENSEPOST THAT I'VE SAVED LOCALLY 13 TIMES AND HAS NO WAY OF BEING LOST... (not that it's anything great!... "

" Just as fun to imagine it based on that description. ;) Nice to see you, Ritz! "

" That's not a coincidence! "

" Going back on this site and checking this room gives me flashbacks, I was SO obsessed with trying to solve it "

" I can't remember if I already posted that that was in it, though... Then I'll have to remember something else! I think I edited the crew hearing the room one solution and having an intense reaction as if it was the most ridiculous theory possible,... "

" That's alright, Cookie Clicker hasn't updated in over a year either. "