# How to end game and stop timer

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**Created:** [April 16, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-end-game-and-stop-timer/286507 "2009-04-16T13:13:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-end-game-and-stop-timer/286507/1 "2009-04-16T13:13:22Z")

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I made a small dodge ball game, where 3 balls are bouncing of the horizontal walls of a rectangle and a character in the middle dodges them by going up or down. I also have a simple timer that counts time in seconds.  
I am trying to use the hitTest function to end the game and stop the timer when a ball hits my character but I have not been able to do it successfully.  
Will appreciate all help and comments.

I am using Flash MX