# Randomly play movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/randomly-play-movieclips/28790>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 18, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/randomly-play-movieclips/28790 "2003-08-18T16:53:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![gabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gabe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gabe)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/randomly-play-movieclips/28790/1 "2003-08-18T16:53:51Z")

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Hi guys,

I want to have a movie clip that plays at random on the stage.

so there would be small lengths of time that it does nothing, then actionscript will tell it to play, then wait another random period of time before playing it again.

Hopefully this can happen on one frame as I imagine.

In the end I want to do this with different movie clips at the same time.

I uploaded a simple .fla if that helps.

Any suggestions welcome, and if this doesn’t make sense let me know.

thanks in advance,

- gabe

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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:** [August 18, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/randomly-play-movieclips/28790/2 "2003-08-18T17:28:27Z")

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sorry guys…

i just found this thread ::: [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31891](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31891)

problem solved. 🙂