Is there any way to reference an object in a script without knowing its exact location?

[MrMatthewGamingX (MrMatthewGaming)]

local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Event = RS.HotPotatoSelected
local Start = RS.PotatoCreateEvent

local Potato = Instance.new("Accessory")
		RS.Handle.Parent = Potato
		local Attatchment = Instance.new("Attachment")
		Attatchment.Name = "BodyFrontAttachment"
		Attatchment.Parent = Potato.Handle
Potato.Parent = RS
Potato.Name = "Potato"

Attatchment.Orientation = Vector3.new(0,0,-90)
	print("Potato Instance has been created")

Event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
	local Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
	local random = Players[math.random(1,#Players)]

	Start.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
		local PotatoClone = Potato:Clone()

		PotatoClone.Parent = random.Character
		print("Potato Instance has been attached to the player")

		local cooldown = true
		
			PotatoClone.Handle.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
			if hit.Name == "HumanoidRootPart" then
				if cooldown then
					cooldown = false
					PotatoClone.Parent = hit.Parent
					print("Swapped Potato to",hit.Parent)
					wait(2)
					warn("cooldown done")
					cooldown = true
				end

			end
			
			end)
	end)
end)

This script is for a hot potato game. It will make a potato then put it on a random player, then whoever is the potato can pass it on to another player by touching them.
I’m trying to make it so that in another script, a while loop runs. This loop will count down the time until the potato blows up. Is there a way to reference the potato in that script without knowing where exactly it is?

[TheNamesLua]

have you tried parenting the second script to the potato? then you could just do script.Parent

[MrMatthewGamingX (MrMatthewGaming)]

I’ll try that. I feel kinda dumb now not realizing that earlier

[nicemike40]

Why not have both things happen in the same script?

[koyugaki (コユ゚)]

If you are referring to an objects directory / full name (which I believe is the case), you could use an ObjectValue.

Set the ObjectValue’s value to your instance, and you will be able to refer to the instance via the ObjectValue‘s value.

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