1986 ‹CYOA 63›
Mystery of the Secret Room
by Ellen Kushner
When your great-aunt Celia decides to take off on an expedition, she leaves you in charge of her strange, old house. It looks as though she won’t return by the end of the month, so you follow the instructions on her note. You open the door to a secret room where you find three boxes – and another note from your aunt. “Open one – but only one – of the boxes!” it says. Which box will you choose?
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- 118 pages
- 24 endings
- 63 unique paths
- 18 choices in longest path
Every Branch
Every Path
Every Decision
Every Reading
Every Page-flip
Every Page
- 6 illustrated spreads
- 22 full-page illustrations
- 2 inline illustrations
- 47 ‘story’ pages
- 24 endings
- 23 pages with two choices
- 2 pages with three choices
- undefined pages with four (or more) choices