The Gaming Den

Left.

People, yes.

"How do I escape from the house?" locks you out of possibly winning, as you automatically attempt to leave; as Queen of Swords either guessed or knew already, this does not succeed and leaves you somewhere from which you cannot reach victory.

Since hitting him some more is not an option, ask him questions.

Clear liquid? Sounds like white wine. KILL HIM! Or at least beat him up.

In all seriousness, to what Thaluikhain asked, some Fighting Fantasy gamebooks (Scorpion Swamp) can be completed while avoiding metagaming. This...is not one of them. Remotely.

Lurk in ambush behind the door.

Pretend to go to bed and wait.

Go to sleep.

The magazine version doesn't drop any of the dinner section, though it does both switch the entire House from "avoid white wine" to "avoid red wine," and flip the dinner section from "must avoid being drugged to reach victory section" to "must be drugged to reach v...

Fruit, coffee, and brandy.

This book, unsurprisingly for the survival horror genre, offers many chances, right from the start, to choose something trivial that makes it unwinnable.

Duck.

Red wine. The painting is the mostonly trustworthy entity we've met here.

Relax, drink the brandy, and ask about the telephone.

Wait.

The young woman.

Wait for our host.

It works. (With a couple bits that require you to take some Holmsian logical leaps, which I will detail when this thread is done, or when we reach them if we live that long, which between my memory and Darth Rabbitt's we might.)

Use the knocker.

Smash the prism.

Hm. I'm going to say...

The right one.

Help the belligerent dwarf.

Take the cake and leave.

Enter the kitchen.

Walk back to the fork and take the other branch.

Go left.