| abstract | - The traps can usually be categorized as involving either devices hooked up to the victim that must be removed, poisons whose antidotes must be discovered, rigged areas from which the victim must escape, or a character given the option of releasing a victim from an otherwise inescapable lethal situation. In all these cases, the victim is usually required to undergo extreme physical or psychological torture. It is sometimes necessary for a victim to interact with other victims and work together to survive. The victims are usually informed about the traps by use of a recorded video or cassette tape, which either plays automatically once they awaken, or when they start the recording themselves. The video recordings show Jigsaw's puppet giving the details. On some occasions, Jigsaw gives the directions to the trap in person, while security traps and the Mausoleum trap, give little or no warning. While most of the traps have solutions to them, with the exception of Amanda's inescapable traps, few characters have survived them. A few failed victims were marked by Jigsaw or Amanda, who cut away a small portion of the victim's flesh in the shape of a jigsaw puzzle piece, a symbol representing the survival instinct that the victim was missing.
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