Subject: Hello John!It is me Vgnier, the solution guy Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:34:08 -0500 From: Bruno Vanier To: jmb184@frontiernet.net Hi John! This is me Raphael Vanier, the guy who offered you a couple of individual room solution in exchange for other room from anybody. Remember me? I checked your page today and I saw a huge post from a guy named Mordacai explaining similar letter objects in all rooms of the maze. Finally! Someone is posting something interesting. So I have decided to post a series of followed rooms solutions daily. These rooms are not on the path to or back from the center of the maze, but they certainly are leading to an interesting riddle. Let me begin with... ------ Room 33 I call this room the family room. Why? It seem to be a room where the guide and his parents have lived. Let me explain: one of the number sign above one door has fallen and it reveal a crown suggesting that this shabby door was used by a king. It lead to think that a symbol is hidden behind all the numbers and all these door are related to someone. right? The narrator say:"They were disconcerted at the apparent lack of clues.". He is right, there are no clues in the room except the crown... All the clues you need to figure out the right door to chose is in the sentence: "Though one of my parents might be lowborn, the other was close to a king.... I've always felt at home here.". He say that he always felt home here but maybe he is saying that he once lived here... with his parent? mother, father, him, it make 3 persons for 3 doors! He say that one of his parent was close to a king, so the door of this parent can only be 13 or 35 which are beside the crown door. He say that the other one was a low born so it is logical that this person is not close to a king. Which can only be door 34. The door related to the guide can only be door 35 or door 13... We know that door 35 lead to a dead end so the right door is door 13! We can now figure that the parent are on dark number sign and the narrator is on a pale number sign :) As for the sequence of pictures featuring a calm man freaking out, beats me! I don't know what the heck it is doing here. Maybe it is related to this room or to a next room. I don't know :( ------ ------ Room 18 I call this room the music room. Everything in this room is related to each other in some way except 3 things. First, the second sentence of the text give a hint where to begin, "Shadows danced across the floor to fire's music.". Shadow and music... Look at the fireplace, it is shape as a face with it's mouth wide opened as if it was singing. The fire in the mouth symbolize the energy of the chant. I am sure that the image of the dragon spiting fire aboove the fire place was a hint for the reader to look at the fireplace. If you look on the ground, the shadow of the chair is forming a musical chord. Almost all symbol above the doors are related to music. But not all of them! The guide give a hint when he say "Are you sure it's the hat that is lost?". Above the first door from the right, there is a fah clef, which is usually use for bass instrument. Above door 3, there is a quaver, a musical note. Above the 3th door, there is a sol clef. Above the 4th door, there is a.... what is this, this has nothing to with music! Therefore, the right door can only be door 13 since the two other don't have numbers. As I said, there are 3 unrelated objects in this room, the symbol above the door, the hat which is used in the text... and the lone ninepin. Remember the ninepin, maybe it will important in another later room! ------- Well, I will post other rooms tomorrow. Post it on your message list, I want everyone to see it. I will post it on rec.puzzle if I don't see it soon on the correspondance section. It should be a good time for people to learn how to figure these riddles on their own. It should also encourage some who have some solutions to post them. Bye for today!