I'm sorry it has taken so long to reply. I had some other Android game issues to work on Friday and Saturday, and yesterday was my youngest grandson's baptism and birthday. Busy weekend!

It is possible that uninstalling and reinstalling the game "cleared" whatever condition was causing the crash that you were seeing in your original game. At this point, all we can do is speculate, though, since the problem is so elusive. I'm going to follow your "path" on the game you've described and see what happens.