Point system help

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#1

I am trying to make a tennis game and I am currently working on the point system. For context imagine a tennis court and two invisible walls behind each player. I am scripting it so that if the tennis ball touches one of these walls, it means the ball got passed the player so the point should be awarded to the opposing player. I am having trouble specifically with what to put inside the second while loop. My idea is to use the “repeat wait() until” the ball touches one of these walls. However, I do not believe this is the best practice and there is a better system out there. But if I don’t have that “repeat wait() until” then the second loop will run indefinitely. Don’t worry about out of bounds or other rules right now.

function runGame()
	local redPoints=0
	local bluePoints=0
	local redSetsWon=0
	local blueSetsWon=0
	
	
	while redSetsWon<2 or blueSetsWon<2  do
		while bluePoints<4 or redPoints<4 do
			
			repeat wait() until *tennis ball touches a wall*
			tennisBall.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
				if Hit.Name == "BlueWall" then
					--give point to red
                                else if Hit.Name == "RedWall" then
                                        --give point to blue
				end
			end)
			
		end
		
	end
	
end
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#2

The touched event is fired when the tennis ball touched something so you don’t really need the “repeat until the tennis ball was touched” loop.

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#3

Yes but like I said in the original post, the while loop runs indefinitely and I get an error.

#4

It seems like you forgot an end there, here is the code, probably should work!

function runGame()
	local redPoints=0
	local bluePoints=0
	local redSetsWon=0
	local blueSetsWon=0


	while redSetsWon<2 or blueSetsWon<2  do
		while bluePoints<4 or redPoints<4 do

			repeat wait() until
			script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
				if Hit.Name == "BlueWall" then
					--give point to red
				else if Hit.Name == "RedWall" then
						--give point to blue
					end
				end
			end)

		end

	end

end
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