Deathtrap Dungeon - Did you first go left or right?

[pip]

The recent discussion in petch's thread about how Deathtrap Dungeon has better flavour text than Trial of Champions when it comes to deciding which direction to take got me thinking... When you first played DD, at the first intersection, do you remember if you went left or right, and if so, do you remember why?

It was the first FF book I played as a kid, and I remember I went right (and died shortly afterwards after not drinking the liquid from the bamboo pipe). I have no idea what my next deaths were, but this was my first FF death, and so after all these years I somehow still remember that.

I'm curious about what the most popular choice was, and how the flavour text might have influenced that. While I can remember I went right, I cannot remember what my reasoning was, but I can see why I may have made that choice:
- You know three contestants went left, and only one went right. This is a deadly dungeon, and you know at most one of the contestants will survive, so it is more intuitive to go against the majority.
- Going against the majority in any gamebook situation also probably instinctively makes you feel this is the smarter choice, because you are/want to be smarter than the other characters.
- There's an arrow pointing left. Sukumvit did help you earlier by offering you two gold pieces if you opened your box at the beginning, but is he really going to hold your hand and help you for much longer? Probably not.
etc.

[a moderator]

I went right, but after getting past the spore ball I made a mistake and read section 12 rather than 13 (careless, I know, but 12 was at the top of the page, it took up over half the page, the accompanying illustration related to it), thereby skipping a chunk of the dungeon and guaranteeing failure.

[bloodbeasthandler]

Casting my mind back years and years, i think I followed the arrow, met the hogoblins. And I surely drank the acid too.
And for some reason in subsequent playthroughs I repeatedly went the Mirror Demon route later on, meaning the sapphire was the last gem i found the whereabouts of in the book.

[CharlesX]

I don't remember whether I went left or right; but I often followed the Knightmare rule that in the absence of clues, you should go right. His arrow even reminds me of a Halloween Knightmare scene where the dungeoneers can accept a trick or treat from Lord Fear, who is more obviously a bad guy than Sukumvit, so rather than assume he has your best interests at heart or second-guess him, the correct answer in that case was trick (which dungeoneers chose).

[Pete Byrdie]

I certainly can't remember, but from a young age I developed a habit of going left when I wasn't sure, so I'd imagine I went left.

[paperexplorer]

Definitely don't remember for DD, but in exploring Eye of the Dragon for the first time recently I turned left at every crossroads think it would make it easier to explore the rest of the dungeon later