(Q - ??: a question about the mega tip, did you actually see when reading the solutions yes there is one mega tip or actually no there are 3-4-
5 mega or was there really, was there something that stood out and could be close to Max's mega trick?)
MB: I talked about the ingenuity of the super solution, I maintain it, it's a term that suits it very well, to achieve it, you need cleverness, so I said at one point that for me the notion of mega trick and the notion of super solution more or less merged, which was my first... which is still my way, I would say, basically logical of interpreting the trick, finally of translating what I I have what I have read, what I have discovered.
After going further, because it's always the same I'll say it again once and for all, I didn't follow the steps myself, I went directly to the solution, so I went straight to the place , I checked etc., but I did not experience the hesitations, the progress, the doubts, the possible false leads that people like to tell me on other forums that I did not see them, that I do not I can't understand them, which may be true, I don't know, but in any case in my opinion it was a bit confusing.
Now to discuss, to read a lot of what is written, I say to myself, there are elements of logic, elements of understanding that we can call mega trick if we want, which allow at a given moment to say well if I appeal to this notion I understand things better or I interpret them better etc., in this approach, I would say yes we can consider that there is a mega trick, mega tricks I don't think, I think there is potentially a mega tip, I continue to link it very directly to the explanation of the super solution.
Now it is possible that during the journey that we have to go from one enigma to another, in the enigmas it is possible that this mega trick appears at some point, I am not in a position today to say, since once again I have not gone through absolutely the absolute detail of each enigma, I am not able to say if this, let's call it that, mega trick, has a direct role to play in certain enigmas upstream of the super solution, but I can in any case imagine that we can distinguish it from the super solution itself, if we want to.
The super solution is the way to arrive at a precise point, to say this is my precise point, that's it, I define it in such a way, what you call the mega tip, it's one of the elements which allows indeed to formalize let's say the super solution, it is an element that we can manage to distinguish from the super solution itself, let's say that I understand, but I do not have the feeling that this notion of wanting how would I say , defining a mega trick distinctly from everything else, I don't have the feeling that it is fundamental at the stage I am at, once again in my knowledge of puzzles.
(Q - ??: besides I don't even remember if this notion of mega trick was an idea of ??a researcher or of Max himself.)
MB: I don't know, in any case it's not mentioned in the wording of the solutions, but hey I know what it's about, I absolutely understand, I'm not stupid but it's not something which was particularly highlighted in the wording of the solutions.
(Q - ??: I can tell you, it comes from an interview given by Max Valentin in fact on the radio, he just announced before the end, on a question from Hiram.)< /i>
(Q - azfo: and these are his words, he used mega...huge, the problem is that he created encryptions, when we design enigmas, we hide the the things to find and he had to use a personal technique of hiding the things to find, which is undoubtedly huge, because no one has found it and he called it mega tricks...)< /u>
(Q - ??: or so simple that everyone looks complicated...)
MB: both are eminently possible, both are eminently possible whether it is super simple or extremely complicated...
(Q - ??: I think that in any case this hunt is still special in the sense that it is really different from the others, everything he did afterwards, because they all have been found so it must have something special)
MB: my conviction is that he did not do the others alone, he relied on people who had skills that he did not have, it was...)
(Q - ??: there they were in fact people I think who were used to treasure hunts...)
MB: or at least encryptions, things like that...
(Q - ??: there you go and in my opinion I think that there is much less encryption than we think in this hunt it is much more trickery than decryption. )
MB: you need some cleverness...
(Q - azfo: from the designer's insight, he demonstrates astuteness and the researcher demonstrates designer insight...)
MB: I tell you again that Enrico Fermi, an eminent scientist and one of the discoverers of the fission of the atom, said, and it was a sentence that I find wonderful, that I always like to quote, the greatest quality of 'a researcher is imagination and that makes you think...
(Q - azfo: the greatest quality of a researcher is doubt?)
MB: no it's imagination, doubt is not a quality, doubt is a state, it's a functioning, it's an acceptance of one's limits but it's not a fundamental quality , doubt is a tool, the quality that imagination represents is not given to everyone, that is a real quality, doubt can be learned, imagination...
(Q - azfo: we shouldn't exaggerate either, I'm talking about the hunt of Max Valentin's hunt... we have imaginative people, in spades...)
MB: that’s for sure...
(Q - azfo: especially when there is an illustrator who voluntarily made sure to put...)
MB: no, but you need some cleverness, that's why it's very interesting to look at the logic of Max Valentin, the humor of Max Valentin, the finesse of Max Valentin, the tricks of Max valentin what do I know, his way of playing with words, with all that, it reveals a certain form of spirit...
(Q - ??: it's his job, he used his job, his qualities...)
MB: yes but one of his qualities was to praise products in order to sell them and that is not always synonymous with
details...
(Q - ??: and to play on the way of thinking of the people he was facing perhaps...)
MB: there you go, he did that, yes, it’s true.
(Q - azfo: Max valentin was not known at the origin of the first sponsor let's say...)
MB: no and besides I don't know who put him in contact with my friend, one day this year he said to me listen, they told me about a guy who does marketing and we were talking about sales through correspondence at the time it was a matter of seeing, it was the beginning of the mail order sale of luxury products, Cartier began to get into it and so this industrial friend told me to sell my products, why we wouldn't try that, and he said to me one day, someone told me about a guy called Régis Hauser, we're going to meet him, that's how things happened, how he was put in contact, I don't know who recommended him, I don't know but in any case at the time he was designated as a specialist in mail order, mail order sales...
MB: I talked about the ingenuity of the super solution, I maintain it, it's a term that suits it very well, to achieve it, you need cleverness, so I said at one point that for me the notion of mega trick and the notion of super solution more or less merged, which was my first... which is still my way, I would say, basically logical of interpreting the trick, finally of translating what I I have what I have read, what I have discovered.
After going further, because it's always the same I'll say it again once and for all, I didn't follow the steps myself, I went directly to the solution, so I went straight to the place , I checked etc., but I did not experience the hesitations, the progress, the doubts, the possible false leads that people like to tell me on other forums that I did not see them, that I do not I can't understand them, which may be true, I don't know, but in any case in my opinion it was a bit confusing.
Now to discuss, to read a lot of what is written, I say to myself, there are elements of logic, elements of understanding that we can call mega trick if we want, which allow at a given moment to say well if I appeal to this notion I understand things better or I interpret them better etc., in this approach, I would say yes we can consider that there is a mega trick, mega tricks I don't think, I think there is potentially a mega tip, I continue to link it very directly to the explanation of the super solution.
Now it is possible that during the journey that we have to go from one enigma to another, in the enigmas it is possible that this mega trick appears at some point, I am not in a position today to say, since once again I have not gone through absolutely the absolute detail of each enigma, I am not able to say if this, let's call it that, mega trick, has a direct role to play in certain enigmas upstream of the super solution, but I can in any case imagine that we can distinguish it from the super solution itself, if we want to.
The super solution is the way to arrive at a precise point, to say this is my precise point, that's it, I define it in such a way, what you call the mega tip, it's one of the elements which allows indeed to formalize let's say the super solution, it is an element that we can manage to distinguish from the super solution itself, let's say that I understand, but I do not have the feeling that this notion of wanting how would I say , defining a mega trick distinctly from everything else, I don't have the feeling that it is fundamental at the stage I am at, once again in my knowledge of puzzles.
(Q - ??: besides I don't even remember if this notion of mega trick was an idea of ??a researcher or of Max himself.)
MB: I don't know, in any case it's not mentioned in the wording of the solutions, but hey I know what it's about, I absolutely understand, I'm not stupid but it's not something which was particularly highlighted in the wording of the solutions.
(Q - ??: I can tell you, it comes from an interview given by Max Valentin in fact on the radio, he just announced before the end, on a question from Hiram.)< /i>
(Q - azfo: and these are his words, he used mega...huge, the problem is that he created encryptions, when we design enigmas, we hide the the things to find and he had to use a personal technique of hiding the things to find, which is undoubtedly huge, because no one has found it and he called it mega tricks...)< /u>
(Q - ??: or so simple that everyone looks complicated...)
MB: both are eminently possible, both are eminently possible whether it is super simple or extremely complicated...
(Q - ??: I think that in any case this hunt is still special in the sense that it is really different from the others, everything he did afterwards, because they all have been found so it must have something special)
MB: my conviction is that he did not do the others alone, he relied on people who had skills that he did not have, it was...)
(Q - ??: there they were in fact people I think who were used to treasure hunts...)
MB: or at least encryptions, things like that...
(Q - ??: there you go and in my opinion I think that there is much less encryption than we think in this hunt it is much more trickery than decryption. )
MB: you need some cleverness...
(Q - azfo: from the designer's insight, he demonstrates astuteness and the researcher demonstrates designer insight...)
MB: I tell you again that Enrico Fermi, an eminent scientist and one of the discoverers of the fission of the atom, said, and it was a sentence that I find wonderful, that I always like to quote, the greatest quality of 'a researcher is imagination and that makes you think...
(Q - azfo: the greatest quality of a researcher is doubt?)
MB: no it's imagination, doubt is not a quality, doubt is a state, it's a functioning, it's an acceptance of one's limits but it's not a fundamental quality , doubt is a tool, the quality that imagination represents is not given to everyone, that is a real quality, doubt can be learned, imagination...
(Q - azfo: we shouldn't exaggerate either, I'm talking about the hunt of Max Valentin's hunt... we have imaginative people, in spades...)
MB: that’s for sure...
(Q - azfo: especially when there is an illustrator who voluntarily made sure to put...)
MB: no, but you need some cleverness, that's why it's very interesting to look at the logic of Max Valentin, the humor of Max Valentin, the finesse of Max Valentin, the tricks of Max valentin what do I know, his way of playing with words, with all that, it reveals a certain form of spirit...
(Q - ??: it's his job, he used his job, his qualities...)
MB: yes but one of his qualities was to praise products in order to sell them and that is not always synonymous with
details...
(Q - ??: and to play on the way of thinking of the people he was facing perhaps...)
MB: there you go, he did that, yes, it’s true.
(Q - azfo: Max valentin was not known at the origin of the first sponsor let's say...)
MB: no and besides I don't know who put him in contact with my friend, one day this year he said to me listen, they told me about a guy who does marketing and we were talking about sales through correspondence at the time it was a matter of seeing, it was the beginning of the mail order sale of luxury products, Cartier began to get into it and so this industrial friend told me to sell my products, why we wouldn't try that, and he said to me one day, someone told me about a guy called Régis Hauser, we're going to meet him, that's how things happened, how he was put in contact, I don't know who recommended him, I don't know but in any case at the time he was designated as a specialist in mail order, mail order sales...