I mistakenly deleted the game. I always had a continuous amount of 29 lives. After I deleted app from iPhone and reinstalled it I had no lives at all. I then would not receive any lives. After about two and a half weeks I acquired 9 lives. That is it. I love this game because of the way the lives are set up. On my iPad I still get the usual 30 lives and usually by the time I play out about 5 games I get them back due to friends. I have uninstalled several times. I am not happy! My iPad is old and keeps shutting down.