(Q - Julien: Yes, it's huge.)
MB: No, but it’s colossal. It was big business. You should know that Xavier Niel, Free Machin and company, lived in Lyon at the time. I have a friend who was very friendly with him, who studied the same as him and who told me that he had a good time with him because he had pink Minitels, he made his fortune with that. He started his fortune with that. So this thing was really a slot machine.
What happened there was that Max didn't want to stop the machine and after 6 months, 1 year, he had answered so many questions that he could no longer say nothing, like in the situation I am in today. And if I wanted to go Max, I would continue to walk around a little bit and we can make it last a few more years.
But he, in addition to that, and this is where your question is quite interesting, is that in addition to that, in the fact that it was the first time, there was no precedent , there was nothing like it, it was the first time that someone like him was in the role, in the position of a master of the game. And so, there were thousands of people who were there polishing his shoes, telling him, oh, Grand Max, please answer me. Well, I'm caricaturing a bit, but that was a bit like that. And so, it went to his head, that is to say that at one point, he...
I know this because he wrote it to me in the written exchanges I have with him. I understood at one point that he was taking over all the owls' findings. And when he wrote to me, I anticipated lots of false leads, lots of things, because he realized that through the exchanges he had with the cool guys, the guys managed to phosphorus in all directions. And he said to himself, I'm the one who caused this. And in fact, what caused this was that after having exhausted his range of possible answers after a year, or six months, he started talking about my painting, responding to my painting.
And where I had access to the first Minitel, at 3615 Manya, I had the possibility of answering questions about paintings. From the moment he created behind Maxval, he told me, we can't give you access there, it's more complicated, it's not possible for you to have your access, so I had more access. And he started to answer about the paintings. Well, I've already talked about it often, I'm not going to ramble on.
But from there, theories were built, each more convoluted than the other, each more complex than the other, which means that today we have a lot of trouble, a lot of trouble, getting used to the idea that the puzzles are extremely simple.
(Q - Julien: And that's why you're asking us to step into Max's shoes, because in fact, the idea is something he has, it It's something he invented.
MB: Yes, yes, it’s a very good find.
(Q - Julien: If we do a little profiling, I don't know if we can call it that, we can say to ourselves that we could ultimately have the same idea. And this idea would simply take us to the cache.)
MB: With what I said, you should have the idea, eh, nickname of no!
(Q - ??: Do we use sentries at the same time as numbers?)
MB: I’m not getting into that debate. Here, we are talking about riddles and the riddle method.
(Q - ??: Too bad, that was a good question!)
MB: This is a very, very good question to which I will not provide any answer. My answer would not be up to par.
MB: No, but it’s colossal. It was big business. You should know that Xavier Niel, Free Machin and company, lived in Lyon at the time. I have a friend who was very friendly with him, who studied the same as him and who told me that he had a good time with him because he had pink Minitels, he made his fortune with that. He started his fortune with that. So this thing was really a slot machine.
What happened there was that Max didn't want to stop the machine and after 6 months, 1 year, he had answered so many questions that he could no longer say nothing, like in the situation I am in today. And if I wanted to go Max, I would continue to walk around a little bit and we can make it last a few more years.
But he, in addition to that, and this is where your question is quite interesting, is that in addition to that, in the fact that it was the first time, there was no precedent , there was nothing like it, it was the first time that someone like him was in the role, in the position of a master of the game. And so, there were thousands of people who were there polishing his shoes, telling him, oh, Grand Max, please answer me. Well, I'm caricaturing a bit, but that was a bit like that. And so, it went to his head, that is to say that at one point, he...
I know this because he wrote it to me in the written exchanges I have with him. I understood at one point that he was taking over all the owls' findings. And when he wrote to me, I anticipated lots of false leads, lots of things, because he realized that through the exchanges he had with the cool guys, the guys managed to phosphorus in all directions. And he said to himself, I'm the one who caused this. And in fact, what caused this was that after having exhausted his range of possible answers after a year, or six months, he started talking about my painting, responding to my painting.
And where I had access to the first Minitel, at 3615 Manya, I had the possibility of answering questions about paintings. From the moment he created behind Maxval, he told me, we can't give you access there, it's more complicated, it's not possible for you to have your access, so I had more access. And he started to answer about the paintings. Well, I've already talked about it often, I'm not going to ramble on.
But from there, theories were built, each more convoluted than the other, each more complex than the other, which means that today we have a lot of trouble, a lot of trouble, getting used to the idea that the puzzles are extremely simple.
(Q - Julien: And that's why you're asking us to step into Max's shoes, because in fact, the idea is something he has, it It's something he invented.
MB: Yes, yes, it’s a very good find.
(Q - Julien: If we do a little profiling, I don't know if we can call it that, we can say to ourselves that we could ultimately have the same idea. And this idea would simply take us to the cache.)
MB: With what I said, you should have the idea, eh, nickname of no!
(Q - ??: Do we use sentries at the same time as numbers?)
MB: I’m not getting into that debate. Here, we are talking about riddles and the riddle method.
(Q - ??: Too bad, that was a good question!)
MB: This is a very, very good question to which I will not provide any answer. My answer would not be up to par.