# Game Lab Code not working Debugging Help

**URL:** <https://forum.code.org/t/game-lab-code-not-working-debugging-help/33941>\
**Category:** Coding and Debugging Help\
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/game-lab-code-not-working-debugging-help/33941 "2020-12-21T15:52:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bflanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@bflanders](https://forum.code.org/u/bflanders)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/game-lab-code-not-working-debugging-help/33941/1 "2020-12-21T15:52:47Z")

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[https://studio.code.org/projects/gamelab/a7m9g7RZS9eZ890jk34v1X3GOfI6C1fJtXMSGnNxb0k](https://studio.code.org/projects/gamelab/a7m9g7RZS9eZ890jk34v1X3GOfI6C1fJtXMSGnNxb0k) Can not figure why the points won’t work and why there is an error message, tried changing the words to score but that doesn’t seem to work as well.

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**Author:** ![mwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.code.org/mwood/32/4941_2.png) [@mwood](https://forum.code.org/u/mwood)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/game-lab-code-not-working-debugging-help/33941/2 "2020-12-21T17:12:42Z")

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@bflanders,

Welcome to the forum! It looks like you are declaring the points variable several different times in your code. You declare it at the beginning (which is the best place to declare this since it is used throughout the game), but then you declare it 3 more times.

Once you use `var points = 0`, any further reference should be strictly to “points” without var in front of it … eg. `points=points+10`

Guessing once you clean it up, all of your errors should disappear.

Let us know if we can help any further!

Mike

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**Author:** ![bflanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@bflanders](https://forum.code.org/u/bflanders)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/game-lab-code-not-working-debugging-help/33941/3 "2020-12-21T17:43:35Z")

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Thanks, I missed that on the student. Many, Many Thanks