Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 18:44:20 -0400 To: John Bailey From: Carl Muckenhoupt Subject: Re: Regarding MAZE In-Reply-To: <3734A18C.FB84FF41@frontiernet.net> References: <3732034F.4B4673A3@ix.netcom.com> <373227B2.718591A8@frontiernet.net> <373466EC.FD167346@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.frontiernet.net id SAA216332 X-UIDL: c698644a7bb978f09fca98c7450b39b2 X-Mozilla-Status: 8013 At 04:41 PM 5/8/99 -0400, you wrote: >After reading your clues to the Maze master's identity, I picked up my >copy of the book and discovered to my delight that the one I had picked >up had an old paper which are the second set of clues I received when I >wrote and asked for the solution. > >Through the magic of OCR, I transcribed them so you too can have a look. > >Even now, I don't find them helpful or supportive of my proposed >solution. > >What do you think? I think that these clues make the intentions behind the riddle room a little clearer. Room 45 doesn't have enough information to unambiguously read the riddle, but with these clues it might. I wish I had had this years ago - although who's to say that I'd have found it useful if I didn't already know the riddle (as I do now)? >    Each of the additional clues below applies to one word of the riddle >to be found >    in room #45 of MAZE: And since there are six clues, the riddle has six words. And as it turns out, they're actually clued in order. That's a lot more information than you get from the picture alone. >    1.) I'll tip my hat if the two of you can solve this. "Two of you" = double you. This shows that the W and the hat go together. >    2.)You can get into these two shoes only if you don't go anywhere. In other words, stay at home. Not the the best way to clue "house", perhaps, but better than you get from the picture alone. >    3.)You will find two names on the table, and they go together like >doughnut and hole. Actually, this clarifies the intention a little. The two names are "William Shakespeare" and "Woodrow Wilson", as was pointed out on that web page. In both of them, the "will" part is left out, like the negative space in a doughnut's hole or something. Incedentally, I've just done a search for the word "maze" in an online Complete Works of Shakespeare, in the hopes of coming up with something as telling as the Wilson quote. It didn't come up with one. All it found was a couple of places in "The Tempest" and "The Taming of the Shrew" that use it as a symbol of confusion, as in "This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod". >    4.) You must choose between two pictures. So that's why the nun isn't used in the riddle. Come to think of it, if we have this kind of choice, the riddle could be read as "What house will none live in?" This makes me think of my "coffin" answer again. >    5.) There are no two ways you can read this sign. No idea. Presumably it's the "ELVI" sign, but the whole problem with that is that there are so many anagrams to choose from: Evil, vile, veil, Levi. Maybe the idea is that "live" is the only arrangement that has two pronunciations? >    6.)You can see that another two pictures demonstrate their own kind >of symmetry. This confirms that "in" is formed of the eye and the tall Z (the only two symmetricall-arranged pictures not yet used), which I thought was the most questionable part of the solution given on the web page. And what kind of symmetry do they have other than their placement?