Maze of the day - Secret of room 40

I have marked the door and door number with a yellow box.
This I see. 15 in room 3 is a stretch.
There was 33, 31, 21, and 13 hidden away though.
But none of them are any real help, right?
This provides an escape from the trap.
The 4 is as clear as the letters T R A P.
The code of doubles is 8 and we have a 2 (to)
That means the answer is 4 (there is no 16, so 4 is all we have)
Why would he put a 4 in there for no reason and sneak a little door with no number.
Also, as a visual clue: 4 nails in the 6 sign.
I'm sorry, but this is a no-brainer.

A-Maze-ing

I love Maze a lot, probably more so than most. When I talked to my former English teacher, he agreed in principle to put Maze on a list of alternate books for Senior review. (They have to do one on slavery and one on war (1 or 2) and they do 4 other books, one popular, one child's, one you pick , and I forget the other one, classic tale I think. So, now I have to provide the basic description of the book and the goals in reading it.
..................How is this for the description?.........................

Maze is a puzzle to find a path between rooms that lead to a specific goal room. Along the way, one will encounter a few riddles, some anagrams, plays on words, and a guide. His words are shrouded in mystery. Perhaps he will lead you on the right path, perhaps not.

The book need not be purchased, as it is available free online at: http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/holt/books/maze/index.html. Click below:

http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/holt/books/maze/index.html

There are three riddles to find along the suggested path. Try to find one of them.
1: Like Atlas you bear the world upon your shoulder(s).
2:Without God, the world would be a maze without a clue
3: Success. What more do you see?

Finding the right room: Starting at the prologue and one, there are visual and text clues to follow. Since it took 29 years for someone to crack the code, it would seem more fair to explain the code briefly and let you see if you can decode it properly.

The code is based on a silly little combination of several parts. It would do you well to learn all that is here.

The sentence above is a clue. Note the words: silly, little well, all (4 words with double letters) There is the word 'part' which may give direction. The third element is the word iT WOuld or simply something like they went TO the center of the room. The door could be 4 or if not available 4/2, perhaps 42 or even 8 (they looked several times at the work of art, for example) It isn't easy even with the code, but it can be done as it helped someone recently to follow the path correctly.

Don't cheat. Have fun.
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(Yes, I mixed up 15 and 29 and had to go back and go to room 29 so I wasn't perfect the first attempt. This isn't part of the text for the students, just a side note to my fellow lost-in-maze friends.)

Welcome Maze Fans and....

Hey, Huge news for me. What is it? According to WhiteCrow all of my pages were read by none other than 'Maze' Manson himself! To me, that is a big honor. I'm not sure if I will put down the final answers to the main riddle, including what page 24 is all about. Busy, busy. Maybe I will jump into an Abyssian Broadcast. Thanks for the encouragement. The best is yet to come.(Our new high - 70 page views today!) Some have previously discussed a Woodrow Wilson quote about life being like a maze. There's more to Maze than that.

I invite you to read how to decipher the text code along the path.
 Hidden Mystery

Which clue is Witch? or Red Herring Soup - Room 11

The answer is in the text, as follows:

First, examine the number of doubles (famously used in the Raven poem by E.A.Poe)
"room...doors...still....room....doors...interrupt....crossing...gratefully...room...all"
10 doubles

Next, look for hidden numbers in the text, as follows:
"before" (b-4 when pronounced)
4

Now, try to add or multiply the two numbers.
10 X 4 = 40 Success!

(look for often, it would, net, for, etc. as wll as divided lines inter-rupted, would still count as a double.)
Now, we will apply this to the path. At times it is altered slightly.)

Here is the picture with hidden number highlighted 

Note: This page is a double clue! How? The sign itself!
Same Rule: 2 doubles (assistance and bell) and the word/number "for" = 2 + 4 = 24.

Room 16 appears to say "8" which is not an option, unless there is a hidden 8 on the, yes, on the trap door!

What is that machine?

Prologue

[Sorry, fans. Despite the fact that White Raven plagiarized all of his photos from Manson's copyright, I was asked not to re-publish his pictures. I have removed anything from his site until I can download a free version that I was given permission to use. It is what it is. In other words, White Raven is a vehement liar who is only jealous that I solved the path first (and in only two days!). Help others find my site by posting links. Thanks]


The inevitable 'Red Herring' that few identify correctly. It isn't merely a false clue. a red herring is a series of accurate clues followed by a false clue. (I'll skip the long tale about smoked herring and training hunting dogs. Wiki it if you don't know the history.) Manson gives us a fairly good guide for most of the way. But, be alert to changes in the maze. (Matrix) Even in Inception, the little tales, like dead end of short films, were lessons in what can be done or undone in the Maze/Dream World. There were three lessons for Ari, if you recall, who played Ariadne, the assistant to Theseus in his entrance and escape from the Minotaur's Labyrinth.

The three things you should most know about Maze when trying to comprehend it, is (drumroll please)
1. Abecendary - Not in order mind you, but an alphabet none-the-less. We start out with the ancient alphabet right on page one, visually. Some letters are very obvious, some very discreet. [For example, almost everyone seems to have missed the 'W' on page 22. The connecting clue is H2O or Water.]
2. Steganography, which includes Cryptography or Crytonomy (Poe's word for it), the study and use of secret messaging and hidden meanings. Poe was a master at deciphering coded messages and wrote about it, too.
3. Hermeneutic ( or a Hermeneutic Circle ) A subject open to different interpretations. Thus, if you know very little about Poe, only perhaps the most obvious clue of the scene from 'The Cask of Amontillado' will be discovered. While some non-intended references may be brought in by a reader's determination and imagination. (My list of songs is basically all of my own subjectivity. I highly doubt Mr. Manson foresaw all such implications.) Was the Sphinx a reference to Poe's story by the same name? Or a mere coincidence?

I found this online (sounds like a clue from Manson):

1.) I'll tip my hat if the two of you can solve this                                                                                            

 2.) You can get into these two shoes only if you don't go anywhere.                      

3.) You will find two names on the table, and they go together like doughnut and hole.

 4.) You must choose between two pictures. 

5.) There are no two ways you can read this sign                                                                                                

6.)You can see that another two pictures demonstrate their own kind of symmetry."

Look carefully at the entrance:

Off the Beaten Path

This is a list of all various subjects pertaining to the Maze:
Not in any particular order: Links are coming soon.

1. Atlas -
2. Pallas - http://pallasthemuse.blogspot.com/2014/07/pallas.html
3. The Party/Carnival -
4. Masons -
5. Songs -
6. William Shakespeare -
7. That darn 'Umbrella'.  -

8. Page 27
Observations:
Words Cat (picture), Bat, Slat (wood pieces) : Reminds me of Vat on another page.

"fata viam invenient" or "Fate will find a way" or " The Fates will find a way"
The phrase fata viam invenient is from Vergil's Aeneid, Book 4.
Where, once again, we are led to Pallas -  Son of Evander, whom Evander entrusts to Aeneas’s care and tutelage. Pallas eventually dies in battle at the hands of Turnus, causing Aeneas and Evander great grief. To avenge Pallas’s death, Aeneas finally slays Turnus, dismissing an initial impulse to spare him.
Pallas tying in with Poe, of course.
It also features Neptune (remind you of another page with a trident, as well as the boat below?)

A better view of the path of the Schwanberg labyrinth. This Roman labyrinth, was the first constructed with two meanders, dates from around 250 AD and is found on a circular mosaic labyrinth in Avenches (Aventicum) in Switzerland. (Source: Hermann Kern, Labyrinthe, 1982, p. 120)

The Path and a Riddle

Is there a riddle along the path. There must be. I went through 45 rooms and not a single bathroom! There is a series of letters formed from the second half of the path, as follows:

From Room 45's U to our exit at one, there are a series of letters. Add them up and rearrange them and it will spell a phrase or riddle. (This seems much more probable than other 'solutions' offered where several letters are leftover and the whole effort was merely to spell something simple, like 'shoulders'. Shoulders, though has two meanings, only one of which is known by most. The other relates to the final riddle.)

A list of each room here:

 45) M and U (The 'W' can be either an M or a W.)

23) No letter, tricky.

8) S, E

12 C (top of ladder), D, U

39 R, O

4 E

15 C (the moon), E (the shadow on the wall)

37 C (The side of the table), O (the shadow of the net)

20 S,S

It wasn't long to rearrange as:" SUCCESS! DO U C MORE?"