I love these kinds of puzzles. Interesting art. So much ambiguity that people will look at the rooms and come up with completely different conclusions; or more usually the case, not come up with an answer at all and just enjoy the confusion. You won't even know if you're still on the right path, but every room is interesting. So many directions your mind can wander. It's fun to play with someone else, bouncing ideas off each other.
That said, often when I was most sure of an answer, I was supposedly wrong. There are solutions that I just can't agree with. I've read answers online, and some of them feel much less logical to me than what I came up with. And many of them I couldn't come up with any answer for. So if you're looking for a satisfying triumph, you're very unlikely to find it. You can at least graph out the maze to figure out the correct path, which is what I actually ended up doing. And I can at least agree the final riddle and answer are more tangible, but I was not close to figuring out that one, and it seems a little removed from the atmosphere of the story. I hear that's because the publisher wanted to run a contest with a concise answer. In fact the story hits pretty heavily on a different question, but the answer to that one is pretty unsatisfying.
Speaking of the story, I like the narration throughout. It's dark and mysterious. But the book gives you no hints about what are the actual hints to solving rooms. You can't distinguish from clue and red herring. I understood that the Guide was dropping hints, but sometimes the hint is what the other characters say, and from a story point they are just bumbling through the maze without a clue so I didn't pay as close attention to them. And sometimes you'll recognize what objects in a room reference too, but won't know whether that means to select a door or avoid a door. Often you'll see a reoccurring object, and might have a theory about it, but still not know where to go with it from there. I was confused about the way doors work at first. It seems logical that once you know where a door leads to, that you can go back through it in the other direction. That is not the case. Otherwise you could make it through the maze in a much shorter path. And some doors have pictures instead of numbers, so I thought perhaps you could find out the meaning of a picture to link it to a number. So I wouldn't say this is a 100% a puzzle book. It's better to call it a puzzling book, an art book, and an experience.
Note the book doesn't come with any answers, but there are mostly unofficial answers online (the author did confirm some answers).
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