(Q - Nabil: and yet the old owls say that the concept of the 12th enigma, if I take this example, they don't know where it came from, they don't understand where it came from
came out, they have the feeling that Max himself invented it at a certain period, that he pulled it out of his hat...)
MB : you forgot what I said earlier, Max Valentin's big trick was to write in the regulations, article 5, "the person who has solved the last riddle will be deemed the winner allowing you to locate the cache"", listen carefully, ""the last riddle allowing you to locate the cache"", he didn't say the 11th, not the 10th, not the 12th, not the 9th, he said the last enigma, which opened the door, after the fact, to the possibility of saying but indeed there is still something to find that you have not found, it is this notion of the 12th enigma which appeared.
It's his improvisation of the moment, it's his Camelot talent, from the moment he sold his sauce, he sold a 12th enigma through this great finesse that he had induced in the regulations. Why do you think, which was not obligatory, that the regulations were reproduced in the 1st edition of the book, that of 1993? So that this famous article appears there.
MB : you forgot what I said earlier, Max Valentin's big trick was to write in the regulations, article 5, "the person who has solved the last riddle will be deemed the winner allowing you to locate the cache"", listen carefully, ""the last riddle allowing you to locate the cache"", he didn't say the 11th, not the 10th, not the 12th, not the 9th, he said the last enigma, which opened the door, after the fact, to the possibility of saying but indeed there is still something to find that you have not found, it is this notion of the 12th enigma which appeared.
It's his improvisation of the moment, it's his Camelot talent, from the moment he sold his sauce, he sold a 12th enigma through this great finesse that he had induced in the regulations. Why do you think, which was not obligatory, that the regulations were reproduced in the 1st edition of the book, that of 1993? So that this famous article appears there.