How to get the name of the player that clicked on a gui

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Hello, I am trying to get the name of the player that clicked on a textlabel that is in a surface gui. This is just for some tic tac toe game that i’m making. This code would just prevent the other player from playing the turn for the opponent.

Heres my script:

for i, square in pairs(squares:GetChildren()) do
	square.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(plr)
		if plr.Name == playeruserturn then
			if turn == "x" then

			elseif turn == "o" then

			end
		end
	end)
end

This was written in a regular script in workspace, not a local script.
“square” is referring to the textlabel.

Output:

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You would need to do

for i, square in pairs(squares:GetChildren()) do
	square.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(plr)
		if game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name == "USERNAME" then
			if turn == "x" then

			elseif turn == "o" then

			end
		end
	end)
end

If you’re using a localscript (which I hope you are) this should work

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sadly its not a local script
I have to keep it that way so that both players can see the changes

is there a way for this to work in a normal script?

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The script must be a local script so you can change the gui and also use the MouseButton1Click event. You can send a remote event to the server from this local script, then a remote event to the another client from the server script (the server must act as a “middle man” for remote events between clients).

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