By Balloon to the Sahara

(Data and visualization adapted from Jeremy Douglass' Transverse Reading Gallery.)

General statistics

Pages of text111
Endings41
Paths388
Monotone paths60
Average pages read8.2
Shortest path (1)5: [1, 2, 5, 14, 914]
Longest path (2)24: [1, 2, 4, 10, 20, 21, 82, 83, 6, 7, 19, 27, 18, 41, 43, 30, 32, 24, 36, 78, 79, 102, 103, 111]
Cycles (3)(21, 81, 21)(32, 27, 18, 41, 43, 30, 32)(27, 18, 3, 6, 7, 19, 27)
Most likely endings (3)[914] (16% probability)
Least likely endings (4)[97] (0.16% probability)
Average ending quality1.91
  1. You make an emergency landing in the sea to avoid a storm, try to swim to shore, and are overcome by the waves.
  2. You try to land the balloon to avoid the storm by dropping the anchorc, which catches on a boat. You slide onto the boat, and flip a coin and sail towards Africa. A wave knocks you overboard and washes you onto shore. Horsemen with swords appear, so you run into a cave and enter a white door. It's a time warp, and you end up back on the balloon with the anchor embedded in the boat of an angry treasure-hunting professor. You decline to join him and row to shore on a raft. You end up in another cave, and pass through a blue door leading to an underground river. You hop in a boat and float down the river, passing a waterfall and finding glowing steps. You climb up and are trapped by a grill, but your dog gets help and becomes a hero and celebrity.
  3. Repeating a coin flip until you get tails; passing through the White Door to a time warp, washing up on shore and returning to a cave with the same three doors; passing through the White Door to a time warp, landing on shore and escaping men with swords by entering a cave with the same three doors.
  4. You drown in the sea.
  5. You discover Marco Polo's buried treasure, but end up sealed in the cave and suffocate.

Interesting pages

Pages reachable multiple ways[3, 6, 14, 18, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 32, 34, 36, 54, 88, 96]
Pages with more than 2 choices19 (3 endings),32 (3 endings),44 (3 endings)
Nonstandard endings38: The End (BURP!)
14: This Could Be The End, but it doesn't have to be if you go on to page 15.
68: A Chilling End
75: The Beginning
77: The (BLAT) End
80: The (YAWN) End
81: Return, if you wish, to page 21.
84: The (BRR) End
103: But then you notice that Harry is squeezing under the bars. he makes it, turns around wagging his tail, and then goes galloping up the tunnel in search of help. Wait patiently for your friend to find assistance, and turn to page 111 to see whether you starve before he returns with help.
116: The End of this Adventure but the beginning of another...

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