Hi C00kiepress,
Thanks for joining the discussion and sharing that information; it's been helpful.
Since you’re on Safari, that may be part of the issue. While some Pogo games can load in Safari, it’s not one of the officially supported browsers as listed in our EA Help guide. HTML5 features (like what Merge Academy uses for chores and sections) can behave unpredictably on unsupported browsers. I recommend trying the game in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. That’ll help you rule out if Safari is behind the freezing and task failures you're seeing.
Glad to hear the Gems were restored after exiting. 😊 If anything like that happens again, definitely take note of which chore or task triggered it.
- EA_Lanna