(Q - Assedix: Michel, to stay on the 520, we often talk about Father Méhus and the official version of the game, but there is still an intermediate version, notably the 520, which said
“On the left, in the middle, on the right, in front of the last or behind the first, but before finding, wasn’t the main thing to look for?”
the end?)
MB: I think it’s not necessarily bright. What is interesting in these different versions is to explain, once again, in the perspective of the entire history of this hunt, which ultimately influences everyone, the interest of these different versions, it is to allow us to understand how Max's mind worked by telling his potential sponsors, I'm making it more complex, I'm changing the parameters a little. His overall approach was to try to calibrate the duration of the hunt. So on the puzzles on which he made modifications, including those that you cite, his objective was to say to himself, the first version that I wrote is perhaps a little too abstruse, so I will write it differently. Then seen again with hindsight, so here we are at the time when I met him. He said to himself, I'm going to modify it again because in the end, it's perhaps a little, it's perhaps still a little too simple or not precise enough, that, I don't know how to say. what are the parameters that motivated it.
But each time, it is above all revealing of the way in which he worked, much more than it provides, I would say, direct indications on the solutions. However, certain minds, I would say, informed, will be able to find interesting elements of comparison there, it is not impossible either.
MB: I think it’s not necessarily bright. What is interesting in these different versions is to explain, once again, in the perspective of the entire history of this hunt, which ultimately influences everyone, the interest of these different versions, it is to allow us to understand how Max's mind worked by telling his potential sponsors, I'm making it more complex, I'm changing the parameters a little. His overall approach was to try to calibrate the duration of the hunt. So on the puzzles on which he made modifications, including those that you cite, his objective was to say to himself, the first version that I wrote is perhaps a little too abstruse, so I will write it differently. Then seen again with hindsight, so here we are at the time when I met him. He said to himself, I'm going to modify it again because in the end, it's perhaps a little, it's perhaps still a little too simple or not precise enough, that, I don't know how to say. what are the parameters that motivated it.
But each time, it is above all revealing of the way in which he worked, much more than it provides, I would say, direct indications on the solutions. However, certain minds, I would say, informed, will be able to find interesting elements of comparison there, it is not impossible either.