Scoring and Lives
When you match a set of tiles, you gain points based on the number of tiles matched and the number of "cascaded" matches that have occurred. "Cursed" black tiles appear in later levels; directly matching a set of these deducts points and erases the gold behind them. However, the cursed tiles can be safely removed as a "cascaded" match.
When you run out of time on a level, or reach a point where there are no moves possible, you lose a life and must start the level over.
You are granted an additional life for every 50,000 points earned.
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