I understand that it wasn't meant to be easy, but after you do all the events so far, except maybe one which is easily 10+ hours of doing the maze events , probably a lot more than that, not including the extensions you did on a few and only have 1 of the 6 pins, is also more annoying than frustrating. It's already a lot to figure out the paths, which I've figured out and that was challenging in itself since you can get caught and it was a lot of trial error to find the correct paths, to then go 13-14 rooms with random chance, make it to the very last room where you take the teleporter that would give you the pin and get caught and not be able to make it back into that room or the one before it again is more than just frustrating. After so many rooms of being random chance, getting caught along the way, and too many times than I'd like straight from the waiting room, is rather frustrating. The last room where you take the teleporter to get the pin, (perfectly okay with the pin being random) should be guaranteed after all the times you get caught to get there and trial and error of random chance along the way, its only fair that in the very last room not be random chance at all. It's already a lot of rooms prior of chances to get caught. Sometimes I only make it to the room second to last 1-2 times an event, and that's being generous and always lose.
I play lots of video games myself and I do love the challenge in them, but when you die a lot, you learn patterns or better strategies to beat it making it easier each time, and in this case you can't do that since it's random chance, it's not in your favor by skill. You can only just continue to take the same route and hope the odds are in your favor. It's satisfying to know you know the route and it builds a bit of confidence but it sucks getting caught so many times along the way, in some rooms more than others. I've put a lot of hours into video games to complete them, and even get all the achievements so I understand the concept you were going for, so I love your metaphor about video games, but video games are mean't to be beaten at some point.