You missed the boat on a couple of important things.
This would have been a fun game if you hadn’t designed it to make money and if you hadn’t restricted the lives so severely. First, everything you need to advance costs money. Your greed over seeded your ability to keep customers happy do that they are willing to spend money. You lose trust with your customers real quick. Then, on top of that, you don’t give the game enough interest to keep people playing. If you win a game, don’t lose a life. That’s what you should have done. Real gamers, the ones that spend the money don’t like to be belittled by games that don’t require real skill to complete. I will play until it’s impossible to advance without dropping all cash and then I will quit. I don’t mind spending money on games I love, it I don’t like being played by game designers. I am offended. And I can see from reviews written years ago that mine will not be honored, since you haven’t fixed it in 6 years.