States? Variables? Both? Help...

Yes, that's it! Thank you Walt! I've spent quite a bit of time examining what you've done to try to understand it. Can you review my attempt to explain what you've done/answer the questions I still have?

1. You created a numeric variable called 'Score.'

2. You created a separate slide layout called 'With Scoreboard' where you had the scoreboard object, with it's eight different states, and the triggers necessary to make it function. There are two sets of triggers. The first set, which are a slide triggers, ensure that whatever the current score is, it is reflected on each new slide layer or new slide. The second set, which are variable triggers, controls the score.

Q: Why create a separate layout? Why not put everything on the existing blank slide layout?

3. In the actual scene, you use the With Scoreboard layout which then shows on every new slide or slide layer.

4. In the actual scene, you had the object called 'Button 1' (the button that if pressed would be the correct choice and should be reflected on the scoreboard with a point) with a trigger that added a value of one to the variable called 'Score' each time Button 1 was clicked.

Q: Why add the 'If Score is less than value 9' to the trigger?  The project will end once the user has clicked on Button 1 eight times. Does the workflow get disrupted if the user decides to click Button 1 a few extra time?

5. It seems to me this was at least a bit of a complex project to set up. I would never have gotten to the solution you've provided in a month of Sundays. And trying to find the right tutorial or discussion online for this project was equally as time consuming, which is why I'd turned to the forum.

Q: Besides relying on nice folks like yourself to do the work for me, and short of just getting more experience using Articulate Storyline myself, are there any other places I should be looking when the project I want to create goes beyond what the basic tutorials and discussions cover?

Joel