The lives get taken when the board has no more combinations you can shift to make a line; it will then make you loose a life and generate a new board that you can keep shifting on untill timer runs out. That's their main purpose actually!

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The lives are there so if you run out of moves on your board, it can reset, but takes a life. The reason your score isn't 580, is because last second moves don't count :)

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Thank you, I understand that except for the fact that when this particular game ended I lost a life right at the end of the game... the board did not shuffle... and I just sat there while the timer ran out because I couldn't do anything lol. Also, the score thing xD

Also... if last second moves don't count, what is the point of this game? Lol. I feel like my entire score should count. I'm trying to actually play these games but I'm finding that they're actually just a waste of time. xD

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That's perfectly normal, I always lose one life when the game itself ends :) However, it may not have shuffled simply because it was so close to ending. Like I said above, any last second moves you make won't be counted unfortunately.

I can't really add much in this department. Usually last second moves only give you 20-50 extra points, so not all that much tbh

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To add to Sockwolf's explanation, the last second moves is when the game already ended, timer is out but the send score menu havent come up yet - there's only like a 1-2 seconds between game ends and score window pops up, but you might still shuffle something in that time. That's why it doesnt count - the game already ended, so those scores arent actually in your score. The game ends at the exact moment timer reaches 0 - not when score window comes up, it appears a few seconds after the game has ended.

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