MB: Another completely extraordinary example, from Max Valentin, but it still makes me dream today when I think of this state of affairs, of the way in which he conceived this hunt.
We must still not forget and I wrote it and I said it and it was rarely repeated, but it is nevertheless important, he had included in the regulations a clue, what he considered to be a
hint.
That is to say the famous article number 5 when he wrote, “Will be deemed the winner, the person who will have deciphered, deciphered, I don't know, the enigma allowing the location of the cache”, in his tortuous advertising mind,
this meant that one of the enigmas made it possible to locate the cache and that this constituted a clue for him.
I know this because he wrote it in the solutions. This tells you to what extent we are dealing with someone who was not at all initiated into this type of exercise and who did something amateurish. And then when he writes that a battalion of lawyers looked into the regulation... my eye! The battalion of lawyers is Régis Hauser on the corner of his living room table. And that was the character, that’s the atmosphere of this hunt. This is why we must accept the fact that yes, the correct solutions to the first 9 puzzles have been found. And yes, there are elements in the first 9 puzzles that have never been understood and, if it didn't exist, it wouldn't change much.
I know this because he wrote it in the solutions. This tells you to what extent we are dealing with someone who was not at all initiated into this type of exercise and who did something amateurish. And then when he writes that a battalion of lawyers looked into the regulation... my eye! The battalion of lawyers is Régis Hauser on the corner of his living room table. And that was the character, that’s the atmosphere of this hunt. This is why we must accept the fact that yes, the correct solutions to the first 9 puzzles have been found. And yes, there are elements in the first 9 puzzles that have never been understood and, if it didn't exist, it wouldn't change much.