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I also passed n showed that I get 8 lives but in reality, I can only get 5 lives as normal.
It doesn't show that you have eight lives @tomkhamon what it it says is that you can increase the maximum number of lives from five to eight. What this means is that you aren't awarded eight lives, but instead you can transfer three of your saved lives to make up the difference, or wait an hour and a half for the game to add the additional three lives.
Normally when you click on a saved life when you already have five you get a message telling you that your lives are full with the new maximum of eight though you can now transfer an additional three.
What I don't know is whether or not the lives you use to top up the new limit to eight counts as part of your twenty a day allowance.