Silly me. There is no problem with game fields of 5 or 6 not having a complete set of matching icons. I wasn't see an entire row because it was below the debugger window. Start working on an animation effect when the icon is clicked.
experimented with applying animations on click events but decided to go with hovering effects in CSS instead.
added anhovering effect to .gameCell, a steadying effect to .glyphicon-star-empty, and performed some general clean up tasks.