Ordered Click Puzzle

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? I am making a puzzle with pipes and 5 valves, and if you click the valves in the wrong order, it plays a fail sound and you have to hit a button to reset it and try again. If you get it correct, it plays a success sound, the reset button is disabled, and a BoolValue is set to true. (Sorry if this is a lot.)

  2. What is the issue? I’m quite new to scripting, and I can’t figure out how to make it check if you’re clicking the valves in the right order. I also cannot start scripting the reset button, because I need the valves to work first.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I’ve tried making my own script and looking for any help on the DevForum, but couldn’t find anything.

Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

#2

You would need to use a for loop to detect when each valve is clicked and detect whether or not the order is correct, I would put the correct order of valves into a table and the order the player puts them ex:

correctOrder = {5, 4, 3, 2, 1}

playerOrder = {3, 2, 5, 4, 1}

After all valves are clicked compare both tables to check if they’re the same

#3 
local rightOrder = {1,2,3,4,5}
local order = {} -- player's order

local valves = { -- Make sure these are paths to the valve
   [1] = ... ,
   [2] = ... ,
   [3] = ... ,
   [4] = ... ,
   [5] = ... ,
}

for index, valve in pairs(valves) do
   local clickDetector = valve:WaitForChild("ClickDetector") -- make sure this is correct

   clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function() 
      if rightOrder[#order + 1] == index then 
      -- correct valve, you can turn this or whatever
         table.insert(order, index)
         if #order >= #rightOrder then 
            -- open a door or something, the whole order is correct
         end
      else order = {} end -- reset if you made any mistake, turn them all back
   end)
end

Actually you can remove playerOrder and call it amountCorrect, set it to 0 by default then it’d look smth like this:

local rightOrder = {1,2,3,4,5}
local amountCorrect = 0

local valves = { -- Make sure these are paths to the valve
   [1] = ... ,
   [2] = ... ,
   [3] = ... ,
   [4] = ... ,
   [5] = ... ,
}

for index, valve in pairs(valves) do
   local clickDetector = valve:WaitForChild("ClickDetector") -- make sure this is correct

   clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function() 
      if rightOrder[amountCorrect + 1] == index then 
      -- correct valve, you can turn this or whatever
         amountCorrect += 1
         if amountCorrect >= #rightOrder then 
            -- open a door or something, the whole order is correct
         end
      else amountCorrect = 0 end -- reset if you made any mistake, turn them all back
   end)
end
#4

How would you make it so that you have to click a button to reset the code and try again instead of it happening automatically?

#5

You’d need to use the 1st code then, and change the part in the middle, oh and do you want it to reset after you get all 5 wrong?

local rightOrder = {1,2,3,4,5}
local order = {} -- player's order
local amountCorrect = 0

local valves = { -- Make sure these are paths to the valve
   [1] = ... ,
   [2] = ... ,
   [3] = ... ,
   [4] = ... ,
   [5] = ... ,
}

for index, valve in pairs(valves) do
   local clickDetector = valve:WaitForChild("ClickDetector") -- make sure this is correct

   clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function() 
      table.insert(order, index) -- save the data
      if rightOrder[#order + 1] == index then 
      -- correct valve, you can turn this or whatever
         amountCorrect += 1
         if amountCorrect == #rightOrder then 
            -- you got the combination correct
         elseif #order >= #rightOrder
         -- reset it if you have made 5 mistakes
            amountCorrect = 0
            order = {}
         end
       end -- reset if you made any mistake, turn them all back
   end)
end

local resetButton = ... -- Path to reset clickdetector
resetButton.MouseClick:Connect(function()
   amountCorrect = 0
   order = {}
end)
#6

Sorry for not being very specific. I want it so that if you click on one of the valves when you aren’t supposed to, the puzzle essentially stops working until you click the reset button, which will start it over. It doesn’t need any automatic resets, only the button should reset it.

#7 
local rightOrder = {1,2,3,4,5}
local order = {} -- player's order
local amountCorrect = 0

local valves = { -- Make sure these are paths to the valve
   [1] = ... ,
   [2] = ... ,
   [3] = ... ,
   [4] = ... ,
   [5] = ... ,
}

for index, valve in pairs(valves) do
   local clickDetector = valve:WaitForChild("ClickDetector") -- make sure this is correct

   clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function() 
      if amountCorrect == -1 then return end -- if -1 then it broke (because 1 wrong)

      table.insert(order, index) -- save the data
      if rightOrder[#order + 1] == index then 
      -- correct valve, you can turn this or whatever
         amountCorrect += 1
         if amountCorrect == #rightOrder then 
            -- you got the combination correct
         end
      else amountCorrect = -1 -- if -1 then you cannot continue
       end
   end)
end

local resetButton = ... -- Path to reset clickdetector
resetButton.MouseClick:Connect(function()
   amountCorrect = 0
   order = {}
end)
``
#8

This script breaks the puzzle somehow. If you press any of the valves, it registers it as wrong, and you can’t complete the puzzle.

#9

I decided not to go with the rest button part. Thank you for your help.

#10

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