I've gotten a bit better now haha.
Also this month Hive Mining with Dwarfs has been very nice, some parts getting 2x back what was invested.
Congrats.
What are the Private ones versus Public? Can only I play the Private game?
They are also worth a good bit more than Public.
If you're hive mining, then whenever your wallet will find a Hive block and the block gets matured (after 101 confirmations), a private PoP game will appear in PoP Mining tab.
When you get a private PoP game you get 50 blocks time to solve and get 0.20 Ring as block reward, if you don't solve this private game within this time then it goes to public for 200 blocks time with block reward 0.05 Ring, if no one solve this game within this time then it expires.
(Note: when it goes public you can still solve this block competing with other PoP players.)Suppose, your wallet find a Hive block of height 2201, you will get a private PoP block at height 2302, if you don't solve this block then it will go public at height 2352 and it will expire at height 2552.