" For what it's worth, I'm playing bar trivia tonight, and we had a round of rebus puzzles. One puzzle was strange strange b b gotten gotten gotten gotten The answer is "too strange to be forgotten." "

" I don't recall it ever being referred to as a rebus. I think when the substitutions you're making are purely semantic, it wouldn't typically be considered a rebus, but I can't speak with a lot of confidence about that. The obfuscated presentation certainly doesn't play... "

" Is WOMANSJEWELRY ("Her ring") considered a rebus? "

" (I actually don't think it's a good rebus, but that's because of standards of rebus construction that have just become generally accepted. For instance, you can find countless rebus puzzles of the sort: GET IT GET IT GET IT GET IT = four GET IT... "

" What's your issue with it as a rebus? "

" To clarify 2 things about what I'm saying: If H + OO is a rebus for H2O, I think it is an incredibly poor choice of a rebus that qualifies as a mistake. And I do not think H + OO is likely intended as... "

" If H + OO is in fact meant to represent water, Manson made a bad mistake. Anyone with a basic science background would know what H2O means (2 H, 1 O) and would know that reversing it would completely change the meaning. Maybe Manson did... "

" It's just a rebus for H2O. H (plus) (2 O) It's not a chemical formula in any fashion, just a straightforward, traditional rebus. "

" This works as a formula for water if you add two 2s, one on either side of the H. 2H2 + OO = 2H2 + O2 = 2(H2O) or two water molecules. I think that’s called “balancing” the chemical equation. Maybe the imbalanced scales are... "

" Unless you interpret it in the straightforwardly and obviously correct manner, in which case the obscurity of perhydroxyl radical isn't a factor. "

" This is a very interesting theory. We've been bickering about how this thing is a chemical formula when it could have been letter-to-numbers the whole time. "

" @Cheetah I think even pre-internet, the H+OO would have caused some concern with anyone trying to make sense of it. "

" @vewatkin I'm not the only one who thinks this is a poorly executed rebus. If you're going to create a rebus puzzle using chemical nomenclature, then you have to use the grammar of that nomenclature, and one H and two O's is not water. We... "

" It's a little bit worse than just an obscure chemical; it's an obscure chemical that is typically called "hydroperoxyl." "

" Hmmm...interesting thought! "

" But how would any readers of Maze be expected to know this? Maze came out in the 80's, before internet access was common, and I doubt most people on Earth then or today have heard of Perhydroxyl radical (I certainly hadn't). I question this as... "

" This is great! It aligns well with what I said in my previous comment on this room: two of these words mean "forward", and two don't. I hadn't noticed the "right ward" though, so great job on that! This may well be part of the... "

" It's also a bowling term. "

" For the "P" theory: maybe it's very simple and HO₂, or HOO, is the chemical formula for the Perhydroxyl radical, and it obviously starts with P. "

" If you have to return to the room 1, the answer is obvious, but I think if you already start the game, there must be some clues to avoid to go in room 27. The best I can think is, there is a picture of... "

" "I assume we eventually choose the right door in that room so we don’t return back in the loop..." The thing with this line of reasoning is that from Room 13 there is eventually nowhere to go but 25 --> 34 --> 10. There is... "

" I don't know if this make any sense or it's incomplete but.... The sign is darker in the bottom part than the upper part. Thunder and moon are the symbols that are darker than the rest. "Thunder Moon" is a traditional native american name for... "

" I'm just thinking... The signal says "for assistance please ring bell"; the text from the room 1 says specifically "something was ringing behind one of the doors". Maybe these two "rings" are connected (the exact same verb is used) for suggesting to realize we have... "

" Maybe it's a stretched solution, but.... The only word missing on the list is "second"; now, since we came in this room only from the room 18 or 27 (25 too, but I assume we eventually choose the right door in that room so we... "

" If you took this to be a visual representation of a figure of speech, it's notable that it connects to 44's "vicious circle" and 21's "garden path" (as in "to lead down...). I'm not sure that "dead wood" is a sensible enough expression to describe... "

" dead wood "

" The fact this room is tilted may refers to the Axis Tilt, that's actually a Bowling move, essential for making a Strike. A perfect game counts 12 strikes, as already mentioned before in some comments. Some objects in the room insist to remind the concept... "

" For this room I focused my attention to the easel: - forthwith = immediately - forthright = direct, honest, outspoken - forthward = an archaic mode to write "forward" - forth_ = this adverb alone means "forward" Without the "forth", the words we have are:... "

" Hello! I'm here in 2026, I only recently found this nice and intriguing book. Probably everything I can find is already been mentioned, but I still try! In this room, I noticed a lot of things suggest the number two, suggesting we have to go... "

" Hi! This is my first time posting here- don't throw too many rotten tomatoes at me if this turns out to be meaningless :-P Something I find interesting that I haven't seen mentioned too often is the theme of horns- or, well, not exactly horns,... "

" 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.) "

" That was one of many alternate solutions that have been suggested over the years, nearly all of which are more satisfying than "Earth/World/Globe." "The Heavens" seems like a pretty darn good answer, relatively. You have the issue that Atlas bears the heavens in Greek mythology,... "

" Greg is long gone, so I can't ask him, but your enthusiastic reponse to his old post suggests you may understand what he was talking about better than I do. What does he mean in saying that 35 is "weighted with information about The Guide"?... "

" vewatkin and I disagree on a many number of things, and we certainly don't decide anything on consensus. you can keep bullying people into believing your schitzo nonsense and the only result will be more ridicule, which you earned. "

" I wasn’t really asking about the other guy. "

" @Inolien Kiki Some of us want MAZE solved. I want it solved as it helps solve Blue Prince. I shared my solutions on the off chance of an intelligent person seeing the posts and developing them further or uncovering a new solution then sharing it.... "

" Could be a long shot but the 26th word on the description is, "pleasures". Adding to the evidence that door 26 is the correct path. "

" I'm ok with being wrong about Beefaroni™ p-values since they're not pertinent to Maze. "

" Genuine question, Britzerland: if you can’t seem to reason with the people you’re debating, why spend time debating them? It seems like you’re having a good experience with Maze on your own, at least you’ve seemed to indicate so, but then posting on this website... "

" Whoops,, meant that for britzerland! Sorry for the confusion, I assume he'll see it here though. Sorry if there are other problems with this post -- I don't have my glasses on hand and I can barely read my screen. "

" Don't worry about responding to us! If you find anything, you can just share it; you know you're not going to get any agreement, but I assume that's not the point. "

" SP: > As Vince said above there is no justification to jump from mug to cup. No again, I dont even need MUG that was just extra reinforcement. I was given CuP. It says this all very clearly in the first post. > An example... "

" Ive come back to see if any good new solutions and not one good post, just trash talk on my other posts. I'll respond to the closest thing you've managed to a "constructive" response. ----------- vewatkin: > Since there are countless ways to try to... "

" It seems possible you may be onto something. This very page itself hints that narrating 'guide' cannot be trusted. 'We went down the ONLY way open to us' INDEED! That wooden beam. The one that's tilted at an angle. The supports are shaped how one... "

" Okay, so 1 and 1 so far. That's a good sign that this puzzle isn't unsolvable without cheating! Thanks for your replies, Vince and John! I still hope to hear more people's experiences too. "