Game freezes when collecting coins

Question

Everything was working fine until I edited the bit of code involving conditions. Now when I run the game and collect the first code, the game freezes.
Here's the workspace:
https://w.trhou.se/dav0ohmwwz

KRIS NIKOLAISEN · Accepted Answer

If you check the console you will see at line 87 you are treating losingMessage as if it was a function by following it with parentheses. This causes the crash. In addition this code always executes because you are using an assignment operator in your condition in the line before
javascript
  } if (lost = true) {

I updated your code here as follows
javascript
  } if (lost === true) {
        // losingMessage();
        losingMessage.text = "YOU LOSE, TRY AGAIN!!!";
  }

but you may want to add a function that kills the player/stops the game 
You also aren't updating current lives onscreen where the player can see. This is because you have you update text twice. For this I added another variable text2
javascript
var text;
var text2;

modified the code that adds the text to the game
javascript
text = game.add.text(16, 16, "LIVES: " + currentLives, { font: "bold 24px Arial", fill: "white" });
text2 = game.add.text(650, 16, "SCORE: " + currentScore, { font: "bold 24px Arial", fill: "white" });

and the code the updates the text
javascript
  function update() {
    text.text = "LIVES: " + currentLives;
    text2.text = "SCORE: " + currentScore;

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Game freezes when collecting coins

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