# Countdown timer that triggers random movie clip load

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-that-triggers-random-movie-clip-load/248498>\
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**Created:** [January 8, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-that-triggers-random-movie-clip-load/248498 "2008-01-08T20:48:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![michmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@michmons](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/michmons)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-that-triggers-random-movie-clip-load/248498/1 "2008-01-08T20:48:57Z")

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I need help. I have this code here to count down every 10 seconds and load an external random movie clip. It works once, but I would like to have it start the timer again–can anyone help me to achieve this?

code:

displayTime = 5;  
function countDown() {  
displayTime–;  
if (displayTime == 0) {  
clearInterval(timer);  
trace(“Times Up”);  
container1\_mc.loadMovie(“ball”+(Math.floor(Math.random()\*3)+1)+".swf", “\_root.movieclip”);

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}

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};  
timer = setInterval(countDown, 1000);