Limiting drag-and-drop attempts

Sounds like a non-standard response to what you've described. If you can attach your .story file, maybe someone can help out.

Okay, upon further review, I'd like to: 1. Get the "Incorrect" response to come up after the third unsuccessful try, and 2. Advance to the next slide by clicking on the Continue button in the "Incorrect" response.  Copy of the file is attached.

These two triggers are the problem:

Restarting the slide resets the attempt count, so the user is always making their first attempt.

The second one shows the Try Again layer when the Try Again layer shows. Probably doesn't need that much redundancy.

Delete these two triggers, and all will be well.

Then on the incorrect layer, the button needs a target.

Walt, I got part way with your recommendation.  When I deleted the first trigger, the answers would not return to their original state for the subsequent try.  Is there another way to return the answers to their original state?

You can set the objects to return to starting point if dropped outside a correct drop target and/or give them Drop Incorrect and Crop Incorrect states. That would require setting the feedback to immediate.

You may have good reasons for wanting to return them, but I know as a user starting over without seeing what I did previously can be discouraging, especially if I know I have most of them right, and maybe a couple switched. I really hate to start over. Allowing only one object per target makes it easier for the user to switch them.

Hi Bob,

The drag and drop doesn't reset by default, for reasons connected to Walt's rationale, but it has been something other forums users have been able to accomplish.  You'll need to track a variable for your attempts on the try again layer. There are a few different examples of how to do this - and this is just the first thread I came across in my search.