# hitTest on duplicated movie clips?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hittest-on-duplicated-movie-clips/19814>\
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**Created:** [May 1, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hittest-on-duplicated-movie-clips/19814 "2003-05-01T21:08:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ivanwright](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ivanwright/32/119_2.png) [@ivanwright](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ivanwright)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hittest-on-duplicated-movie-clips/19814/1 "2003-05-01T21:08:46Z")

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i have two separate movie clips, both of which will be duplicated for continuous movement, and i want to do something when they intercept each other.

i know how to do a hitTest on 2 regular movie clips… but how do you reference duplicated movie clips for the hitTest?

anyone? please?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hittest-on-duplicated-movie-clips/19814/2 "2003-05-01T21:50:00Z")

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same way. Just use their right names

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hittest-on-duplicated-movie-clips/19814/3 "2003-05-01T21:54:07Z")

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i don’t want to have to use “instance1”, “instance2”, “instance3” and so on and so forth. i want one hitTest on one of the original movie clips that detects collision with any and all duplicated movie clips.