Corrected entry: All the characters seem to have a purpose (math, leadership, escape artist, etc.) except for the character, Alderson(?), who dies in the very beginning. Why would those who run the cube bother to put someone who has either no skill or one we never came to know in a room where they would die immediately? The other characters seemed to have gotten a fair chance in that they didn't wake up in a booby trapped room. I don't believe even the cat burglar would have survived if he woke up in the same circumstances.
Soylent Purple
4th Oct 2005
Correction: He was put in to die. By letting the others know how fatal the place could be, it would panic them even more, thus making it more fun and sadistic for the builders.
Soylent Purple
He was put in a white room like everyone else. He died in the room he went into not the room he started in. It was literally the only thing he did.