History Headscratchers / NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors

** Another possibility is that this did happen in some timelines that were not shown and which June trivially discarded by changing either her instructions to Junpei or her present-day actions until people did what she wanted.

** Several possibilities. One is that, as one of the creators of the original games, he knew (or believed he knew) of a way to cheat the system up ahead. Getting through the "5" door puzzles does give you access to a huge chunk of the ship. Another possibility is that he intended to wait in ambush and kill people to get the bracelets he needed to reach an exit.

** The workshop probably belonged to Kubota, since he designed a lot of the tech used in the first Nonary Games, and was just left in its existing state by Zero.

*** There was little reason to believe he would've been able to squeeze through a small vent space to esape the prison he was in. As for why: they probably didn't want to leave a cop around conducting searches for the children or the vessel, so they put him on board to sink down with the ship.

** The impression I had gotten was that Santa and June had gotten rich by using future knowledge to make money, and thus bought the Nevada building under the guise of a dummy corporation. As for why Cradle would be selling it, perhaps they weren't particularly worried about being found out after the 16 missing children were returned and didn't implicate them, and sold the now-useless building for profit after it had served its purpose?

* Why are there buttons on the bracelets? In the second Nonary Game they're used to reveal the combination to the safe and the coffin, but they appear to exist on the bracelets used in the first game as well. Except there's no apparent reason for them since both of those elements were added by Zero in the second game.

* Why was Building Q just abandoned by Cradle after the experiment was run? Wouldn't they have tried to cover up things up by demolishing it or have instituted some kind of security measures so a pair of twenty-somethings can't just show up and reuse it?

** Here, the (?)'s represent Santa, June, and Lotus. Junpei is with them, and the digital root they need is [4], thus Santa + June + Lotus would have to have a digital root of 8. However, considering Lotus is "8" to begin with, there's no point to having her with a different number (the reason for suspecting them of being Zero wasn't just that they went together, but that "3+6" was basically the same as "0+9"). It would also mean that none of them were (0), which is the whole point of the theory. Not to mention, like what Clover mentions with "Snake's" killer, it becomes less plausible the more people were in on the crime.[[labelnote:Additional Evidence]]Also, when opening Door [5] right after the 9th Man dies, Junpei registers himself and either "Ace + Lotus", "Snake + Seven", or "Santa + June". As you can see, there's two optional cases where Santa, June, and Lotus split up. This is probably why this whole thing isn't mentioned by the characters... it'd be harder to program for the three slightly different scenarios at the very start of the game.[[/labelnote]]

** The solar system keys are in relation to the fact that, until a few years ago, nine planets were part of our solar system. So the number is important in and of itself. The Sun door cannot be affected by the participants of the Nonary game, not unlike the planets cannot truly affect the sun. Zero was more or less setting the planets aligned. IIRC most of the keys are used in the order of the planets throughout the game (Correct me where I'm inaccurate.) Near the end, Snake is wearing a cloak. This is important because if you look closely, the cloak has the symbol for Pluto, which makes him a key. This is also a reference to Pluto, the Roman equivalent of Hades, the Greek god of the dead, quite fitting where he is found at that point. Please excuse the rambling, hopefully this was coherent.

** My personal belief is that she went there because she knew that this is where Junpei was heading. If he never found her body he or past Akane might come to the conlusion that ''she'' was the one who murdered everyone which would be bad for her in other timelines.

* In the True Ending Route, when the gang figures out Santa and Akane's bracelet number: How did Snake and Seven figure out that they were both Zero? They clearly say that they are always together in the doors they went through (this is the reason why they believe them to be Zero), yet Lotus (8) is also always with them (at least in the True Ending, shown by Clover's "summary" of the doors that June went through).Plot hole?

* In the True Ending Route, when the gang figures out Santa and Akane's bracelet number: How did Snake and Seven figure out that they were both Zero? They clearly say that they are always together in the doors they went through (this is the reason why they believe them to be Zero), yet Lotus (8) is also always with them (at least in the True Ending, shown by Clover's "summary").Plot hole?

** The image on the computer seemed to be a command prompt, so perhaps it was already in desktop mode with that running. And before you say that the power had to be plugged in first, that was for the monitor, not the computer. It could be assumed that Lotus wrote up a batch program meant to brute force the password on that prompt.

** The image on the computer seemed to be a command prompt, so perhaps it was already in desktop mode with that running. It could be assumed that Lotus wrote up a batch program meant to brute force the password on that prompt.