(Q – Roc: To pick up on that, you said that there were 2 clues hidden in the chase that could put us on the trail of the gear change…)
MB : 2 clues hidden in things I said or things in the book, you mean?
(Q – Roc: no things in the book that we, it seems to me that you said that but I'm not sure. And do you confirm that there would be 2 hidden clues in the book to put us on the track?)
MB : Yeah are there only 2, are there 2? Are there only 2? I'm thinking…
(Q – Roc: there are at least 2, maybe that’s it?)
MB : Yes, definitely. There are in fact in the book, there are things which have not been, for 30 years I confirm, which have not been, how shall I put it, which have not been captured by the players . They didn't catch that, I...well I don't know why, no I don't really know why but they didn't catch that and so it remains to be discovered.
There are indeed things that have not been captured in the riddle texts.
(Q – nlc in the first 9 or in the last 2?)
MB : in the texts of the puzzles, okay, but knowing that once again, I remain very clear and very formal on this. There are no leftovers, pseudo leftovers, elements which would not have been useful in previous puzzles and which would be useful at the end, there are none, everything that we find in the riddles is useful in the moment, absolutely in the moment and when you get to the end, as I said before, so I maintain it, it's very clear.
When we get to the end, there is information that comes back to mind, we say to ourselves OK, I worked like that, I worked like that, so I continue to work like that. I have understood or learned a certain element, I reuse it at the limit, but there is no element that can be described as a remainder, that is to say which remains, following the resolution of a riddle , something that is there, we don't know what it is and we will see later how to use it, there is none of that. Everything found in the riddles, whatever they may be, is useful for the riddle itself, possibly for the next one, at least for 2 of them, well not at least for 2 of them them and at the time of the super solution, we have things in our head that we will potentially use but which are not leftovers, which are there in the same way that we learn a vocabulary term and that we uses it in a sentence, after having learned it, we use this new word that we have just learned.
Well that's a bit like that in terms of the super solution when we arrive at the end of the hunt, there are elements that we learned, understood and learned during the resolution of the previous puzzles and that we will reuse at that time.
But they are not, in the sense that some have understood it. I read, for example, I think it was on the A2CO forum that I saw this, people who write, I have 27 balances or 35 balances so they put aside things while saying to yourself, well I didn't use that but I'm going to use it again later, there's nothing like that.
(Q - nlc: but then the sentences that we didn't catch so it's at what stage that we miss them so it's at the end of the game to get the trigger? )
MB : So here we come, we are talking about a concept again, well not a concept, an important observation and to which I returned and on which I insisted a lot, it is that Max Valentin is above all a literary person.
The terms used, I talk about it, I talk about it again, I affirm it, I confirm it, call it what you want, he is a literary person and when he created this hunt, he was deep into writing advertising texts. He was the peddler that I mentioned, that is to say someone who sold products through a laudatory comment through an inducing comment, which implied that the product was much better than the others and which was intended to make readers want to buy. It was his job, it has always been his basic job.
In any case at the time we are talking about, and consequently, the wording of the riddles is imbued with this, this technique, where we round, we wrap, we arrange, we present things, etc.
So, in the texts of the enigmas there are expressions, there are terms that he used, which have passed, I'm going to use the expression again because it makes me laugh, which have passed through and no one has saw nothing, no one understood that there was something to dig into.
Whereas, conversely, there are expressions that are there just for poetry and on which people will struggle to find things when there is nothing to find.
MB : 2 clues hidden in things I said or things in the book, you mean?
(Q – Roc: no things in the book that we, it seems to me that you said that but I'm not sure. And do you confirm that there would be 2 hidden clues in the book to put us on the track?)
MB : Yeah are there only 2, are there 2? Are there only 2? I'm thinking…
(Q – Roc: there are at least 2, maybe that’s it?)
MB : Yes, definitely. There are in fact in the book, there are things which have not been, for 30 years I confirm, which have not been, how shall I put it, which have not been captured by the players . They didn't catch that, I...well I don't know why, no I don't really know why but they didn't catch that and so it remains to be discovered.
There are indeed things that have not been captured in the riddle texts.
(Q – nlc in the first 9 or in the last 2?)
MB : in the texts of the puzzles, okay, but knowing that once again, I remain very clear and very formal on this. There are no leftovers, pseudo leftovers, elements which would not have been useful in previous puzzles and which would be useful at the end, there are none, everything that we find in the riddles is useful in the moment, absolutely in the moment and when you get to the end, as I said before, so I maintain it, it's very clear.
When we get to the end, there is information that comes back to mind, we say to ourselves OK, I worked like that, I worked like that, so I continue to work like that. I have understood or learned a certain element, I reuse it at the limit, but there is no element that can be described as a remainder, that is to say which remains, following the resolution of a riddle , something that is there, we don't know what it is and we will see later how to use it, there is none of that. Everything found in the riddles, whatever they may be, is useful for the riddle itself, possibly for the next one, at least for 2 of them, well not at least for 2 of them them and at the time of the super solution, we have things in our head that we will potentially use but which are not leftovers, which are there in the same way that we learn a vocabulary term and that we uses it in a sentence, after having learned it, we use this new word that we have just learned.
Well that's a bit like that in terms of the super solution when we arrive at the end of the hunt, there are elements that we learned, understood and learned during the resolution of the previous puzzles and that we will reuse at that time.
But they are not, in the sense that some have understood it. I read, for example, I think it was on the A2CO forum that I saw this, people who write, I have 27 balances or 35 balances so they put aside things while saying to yourself, well I didn't use that but I'm going to use it again later, there's nothing like that.
(Q - nlc: but then the sentences that we didn't catch so it's at what stage that we miss them so it's at the end of the game to get the trigger? )
MB : So here we come, we are talking about a concept again, well not a concept, an important observation and to which I returned and on which I insisted a lot, it is that Max Valentin is above all a literary person.
The terms used, I talk about it, I talk about it again, I affirm it, I confirm it, call it what you want, he is a literary person and when he created this hunt, he was deep into writing advertising texts. He was the peddler that I mentioned, that is to say someone who sold products through a laudatory comment through an inducing comment, which implied that the product was much better than the others and which was intended to make readers want to buy. It was his job, it has always been his basic job.
In any case at the time we are talking about, and consequently, the wording of the riddles is imbued with this, this technique, where we round, we wrap, we arrange, we present things, etc.
So, in the texts of the enigmas there are expressions, there are terms that he used, which have passed, I'm going to use the expression again because it makes me laugh, which have passed through and no one has saw nothing, no one understood that there was something to dig into.
Whereas, conversely, there are expressions that are there just for poetry and on which people will struggle to find things when there is nothing to find.