The Question and Answer section for Ready Player One is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In Ready Player One, Wade’s crucial edge is that he realizes the location of the first key (the “Tomb of Horrors”) is actually on Ludus, the free virtual planet where he attends high school. Most other gunters assume they need to travel off‐world—...
Wade has a sense of how Halliday's mind was working when he created this game and he might have a slight edge in the fact that he knows Halliday as well as he does through his extensive research and his own fascination with everything 80s.
Parzival found the Copper Key. He believes that the riddle from the key is guiding him to Middletown, a replica of Halliday's hometown of Middletown, OH, Wade heads there in search of the gate.
