When you’re flipping through the book, going from a choice you made on page 17 to a result on page 94, you cannot help but see parts of stuff on pages 18 throug

When you’re flipping through the book, going from a choice you made on page 17 to a result on page 94, you cannot help but see parts of stuff on pages 18 through 93. Sometimes these things are captivating and surprising - how the hell do you get from “exploring your aunt’s spooky house looking for grandpa’s will” to “riding dinosaurs”? Sometimes you even abandon the choice you made and start working backwards through the book, looking for the path that leads to riding dinosaurs on page 42. Possibly this is “cheating”. Possibly this is just the book equivalent of looking up a video game puzzle’s solution. You could argue both ways. It’s certainly breaking the basic rules outlined in the front of any game book, of starting at page 1 and reading until you’re told to turn to another page. Having pages with crazy stuff on them that cannot actually be reached by starting at page 1 and turning pages as directed by the official narrative plays with this experience. For more thoughts on this I would suggest finding a copy of “UFO 54-40”, which is probably the first book to do this. Play it straight for a while. And do it with a real book, not a PDF or a Twine adaptation or something. The whole point of this is an artifact of the fact that you can’t stop the reader from glancing outside the rails as they flip through the book.