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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has an [[UnwinnableByMistake unintentional]] one in Vault 92 where you can glitch through the floor in the Overseer's Office and end up in an inescapable DisconnectedSideArea of the Sound Testing sector behind a jammed door. You can also permanently lock yourself in Vault 106 by closing the main door as you enter, as there is no way to open it from the inside other than PC console commands.

** Another third-party scenario, ''Gemini Station'', has the "Oubliette", where you are sent if you killed Jack Melville, which is a dead-end pit with a [[DescendingCeiling crusher trap]].

** In the novel ''Discworld/AHatFullOfSky'', young witch Tiffany Aching leads the misunderstood but inadvertently lethal creature, the Hiver, through the door of Death, which it craves, but discovers that the Door is one-way only. She has to do some seriously lateral thinking to get round this and return to the living world.

** In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', both Granny Weatherwax and her sister Lily end up (separately) trapped inside a mirror maze and are told by Death that they cannot escape until they "[[AC:find the real one]]". [[spoiler:Only Granny escapes; she figures out that none of the reflections are real, only she herself is.]]

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' can glitch out when fast-travelling and strand the Caped Crusader in a black abyss reminiscent of the aforementioned ''Myst'' trap books. Worse, since the game autosaves when loading a new area, this event forces you to restart the whole game.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' can glitch out when transitioning between areas and strand the Caped Crusader in a black abyss reminiscent of the aforementioned ''Myst'' trap books. Worse, since the game autosaves when loading a new area, this event forces you to restart the whole game.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', giving the fifth red or blue page to the respective brother warps you into their book, then they proceed to rip out the pages, leaving you [[AndIMustScream trapped in a black void for eternity]]. D'ni also becomes a dead-end if you go there without the white page.

* In the queue for ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'', you enter a seemingly-normal portrait gallery that, when a group of guests has been loaded in, mysteriously and ominously stretches to several times its normal height. When the room stops stretching, the Ghost Host (the ride's narrator) informs you that the chamber has no windows and no doors, and challenges you to find your way out. His method is implied to hang himself from the rafters, although that's [[FridgeLogic not particularly helpful]]: his corpse hangs in the attic and is only made visible when a lightning flash makes the ceiling disappear - therefore, there's no way to reach the rafters to join him because, as mentioned, there's no windows and no doors. Of course, moments later, a pair of doors hidden in the wall open to take you to the next part of the queue before you can off yourself.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', while Chell and Weatley are running away from SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS, the latter opens a room near your escape route and creates a bridge to it [[SchmuckBait while inviting you to go in.]] As soon as you enter it, [[GasChamber you're trapped and deadly neurotoxin kills you]].

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' features the Mystic Cave Zone Act 2 spike pit. Apparently, the level designer decided it wasn't enough that falling into a specific pit leads to a BottomlessPit, oh no, instead you hit a bed of spikes in a shaft too tall to climb out of. You'll die in about 10 or less seconds depending on how many rings you have...unless you have the misfortune of being Super Sonic, in which case you'll have to wait for your rings to deplete at a rate of one ring per second, and ''then'' finally die so you can go back to the last checkpoint.

** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge'', TheMaze has two all-lethal examples. One wrong path leads to a dead-end where Roger is eaten by the Cave Squid. At the end of the maze, there is a subterranean river with a fork in it. The left fork leads to an InevitableWaterfall and certain doom.

* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura: Clear Card:'' Sakura's room turns into one of these as a result of one of the new cards. The room seemly has no way out, and pushing on the walls only causes it to stretch. It soon begins to actively try to kill them, but they find a way to escape rather quickly when they realize it's made of rubber and so can be popped with a sharp object like you can a balloon.

** In an optional room of the Moon Grotto, you have to solve a puzzle involving [[LaserHallway deadly laser beams]] and movable blocks to reach an Energy Cell and a couple of Ability Points pickups. If done incorrectly or your save file gets glitched, you can end up permanently trapped below the lasers.

* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest: [[UpdatedRerelease Definitive Edition]]'', if you fall into the central pit of the [[BlackoutBasement Black Root Burrows]] before you have the Light Orb to make the moving platforms tangible and activate the torch switches, there's no way out other than suicide by SpikesOfDoom.

** In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', both Granny Weatherwax and her sister Lily end up trapped inside a mirror maze and are told by Death that they cannot escape until they "[[AC:find the real one]]". [[spoiler:Only Granny escapes; she figures out that none of the reflections are real, only she herself is.]]

** In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', both Granny Weatherwax and her sister Lily end up trapped inside a mirror maze and are told by Death that they cannot escape until they "[[ac:find the real one]]". [[spoiler:Only Granny escapes; she figures out that none of the reflections are real, only she herself is.]]

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/AHatFullOfSky'', young witch Tiffany Aching leads the misunderstood but inadvertently lethal creature, the Hiver, through the door of Death, which it craves, but discovers that the Door is one-way only. She has to do some seriously lateral thinking to get round this and return to the living world.
** Also PlayedForLaughs with the Nac Mac Feegle. They can enter a pub easily enough, but leaving is another matter.

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Dead Money'', if you read the "[[SchmuckBait Sinclair"s Personal Accounts]]" message on the vault terminal, the door permanently seals and you die in a NonStandardGameOver.