" I'm not convinced that the nameless, faceless clickers of the up-finger can be relied upon to participate, or intended to pledge their willingness to do so. "

" Update: eight people! "

" I don't know! Whoever else liked your post. "

" You and who else? "

" Two people, apparently. "

" Out of curiosity: how many people check this site regularly, or sporadically even, and would participate in something like a letter-writing campaign to Manson? I'm not assuming such a thing will ever happen or would be effective, but I wonder what the possibilities are. "

" Loved Maze, PLEASE PLEASE just go ahead and publish a sequel "

" One difficulty here is that if we're reading the bear as a sort of rebus or visual pun, and not paying attention to where it's actually pointing, we're looking at a bear pointing with its right "arm." Now, it could be that we're not reading... "

" The group chooses their door by a process of elimination, but they didn't see the cat. That suggests their process of elimination is independent of the cat. Crossing paths with a black cat is a a traditional sign of bad luck, and to the extent... "

" It does look like a stop watch. I don't get how you see the little hand pointing at 42, though. It looks to me like it's pointing directly at F, which is midway between the points on the clock that would correspond to 30 and... "

" The connection between "lesson" and "fable" is reasonable to consider, though that also doesn't make clear that 26 is the correct answer, since there are often similar connections to incorrect doors. I don't think it's necessary to bring Cerberus into it; if Manson's purpose were... "

" It's not clear to me how a contradiction between a description of what lies behind one of the doors and what we expect to lie behind door 26 suggests that we should be through 26. But I don't see a contradiction here either. The light... "

" Here's a simple answer: The bear points left, "bear left." To "bear left" means to take a left fork. Typically, the phrase is used at intersections to differentiate from "turn left," as the driver should lean left while moving forward (as opposed to changing direction... "

" My theory is that this whole thing is an interesting spatial deduction problem with the cat. I believe the cat's path partitions the room; any path between the visitors and a door which a black cat crossed would indicate bad luck if they noticed, and... "

" I'd like to add my solution here, which hasn't been mentioned: The key realization here is that the crown atop clock in the center of the room indicates that it's an ANALOGUE STOP WATCH rather than a CLOCK. Analogue stopwatches were common at the time... "

" Two important clues led me to choose door 30: 1. I believe the shushing audience members are the most important clue, and that they indicate to the player that they should move with subtlety through the room as quietly as possible, which would lead them... "

" My personal 2 theories for this room which I feel are much stronger and more obvious than those mentioned: 1. The characters are mentioned to "peer into the gloom" when the door is opened. For all doors except 26, bright sunlight from outside would at... "

" I don't think this is meaningful, but like a lot of observations, it's nice to catalogue these to maintain a sense of how often such coincidences happen. Counting the letters in sentences might be too tenuous for even this purpose, but hey, if you've already... "

" I mean on the other side of the door. In Room 37. "

" Well, it does seem peculiar that you would add those numbers in that way--that you would say, "There are three 1s, so let's add 3 and 1." The pattern you suggest is there, but I suspect it arose, coincidentally, for another reason. I suspect these... "

" The comment “What the devil is this supposed to be?” contains exactly 30 letters, and right after it’s uttered the guide says they are getting close and rings the bell. "

" Guys, I noticed something that I’m not sure has been pointed out yet. Look at the dots on the dice. There are 3 sets of 1 dot, 2 sets of 2 dots, and 1 set of 3 dots. 3+1=4, 2+2=4, and 3+1=4. Everyone has noticed... "

" I was going through the book earlier without having looked online for help. I assumed every door had a “pair” on it, except the “pear”, which is pronounced the same but spelled different. (A heterograph?). So yeah, I definitely think people going through the book... "

" 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 "