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⚠️ @letshaveaword Round 13 Post-Mortem Round 13 hit a critical bug: the winning word was NOTRE. When the first guess was processed, the database recorded a winner but the onchain payout failed silently; this created a “zombie round” that made the game completely unplayable for ~18 hours. Every guess hung and returned a 504 error. During that window, 11 players independently found NOTRE and submitted it a combined 121 times. All were blocked by the bug. After reviewing the complete Vercel server logs, I’m correcting the record. The previously recorded winner (@rehankhn01) was actually the 9th person to submit NOTRE. @coolhat was first... they tried 17 times over 1.5 hours, blocked every time. @coolhat is the rightful Round 13 winner. I’ll coordinate with them to get their winning funds sent. **All players who purchased guess packs after @coolhat's winning guess have been refunded (see attached image) Every player who found NOTRE and submitted it to our servers during the outage, in order: 1. @coolhat — 17 attempts, all blocked 2. @faroff — 29 attempts, all blocked 3. @sekoweed.eth — 10 attempts, all blocked 4. @jorja — 20 attempts, all blocked 5. @tamey — 5 attempts, all blocked 6. @peyson.eth — 9 attempts, all blocked 7. @rilas00 — 1 attempt, blocked 8. @rend — 21 attempts, all blocked 9. @rehankhn01 — 7 attempts, blocked 10. @daxexp29 — 1 attempt 11. @jmk — 1 attempt What I shipped to prevent this in future rounds: - 12s timeout + auto-retry on guess submissions - Instant alerts when payout processing fails - Zombie round detection every 30 min - Admin recovery tooling

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