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#1

I am very new at scripting. What is wrong with this?

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19:59:26.815 - Players.Play_MazeOfHeck.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Shop.Stats.Frame.LongStick.Buy.Buy:3: attempt to index nil with ‘WaitForChild’

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local Cost = 100

  local playerStats = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
  local playerGold = playerStats:WaitForChild("Gold")
  local gui = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("ScreenGui")
  local Owned = gui.Shop.Stats.Frame.LongStick.Owned.Value 

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
  if playerGold.Value >= Cost and  Owned.Value == false then 
  playerGold.Value = playerGold.Value - Cost 
  Owned.Value = true

end
end)
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#2

There are four occurrences of :WaitForChild in your script. Be more specific as to which line.

#3

The first one
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#4

Where do you have player defined? or is it not defined. You’re getting that error because player is nil or not defined anywhere.

#5

I think you might’ve cut off your player variable by accident when posting your code. One unfortunate mistake I see in a lot of beginners is that they try to call the LocalPlayer in a server Script. It is only possible to call LocalPlayer from a LocalScript, make sure you did not fall for this.

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#6

Also after you get past this error you will need to remove the .Value on this:
local Owned = gui.Shop.Stats.Frame.LongStick.Owned.Value
because you can not change a value from that, it will just give you the value at the time it was defined.

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#7

It’s in a local script, how do I define player?

#8 
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer