Changing button state when an expected action is NOT completed

You would need a trigger on each button for each of the other buttons in the other set, that changes state of all the buttons.

There is really no concise way to do this just brute force

Hi Steve - Do you have a storyboard or .story file of what you're trying to do? I think I put something similar together for another user. 

Thanks for the offer to help David.  Here's the file.

Hi Steve,

Can you check out this sample that Gerry put together during the beta. It actually uses Storyline's built-in drag-drop interaction to manage the shuffling.

I updated the first four tiles to include State and City so you can test the interaction. This is probably the best way to approach your interaction. But like you said, it will require a handfull  of additional triggers

Thanks Dave, this works great!  This is actually how I planned to approach this when I first started the project (setting variables based on which tiles were clicked and then comparing the variables).  Jeanette suggested using button sets and that worked fine too but then I had the problem of returning the buttons to normal state when incorrect matches were chosen by the learner.  I never even thought of making a disabled state that is identical to the normal state.  That's brilliant and I'm actually mad at myself for not thinking of it!

It's an awful lot of triggers on each rectangle but the end result will be worth it.  The only problem is that when I demonstrate this to the faculty senate I'll have 100+ faculty members wanting the one (me) instructional designer to do something for their classes!