This should work. it just that my flash resists me

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on (press) {
if (_root.pass = “totally bloody //551”) {
_root.gotoAndStop(“freeplay”);
} else {
_parent.messagebox = “invalid pass”;
}
}
i dont get it!!! it should work!!! i cheaked all te vars!! WTF??

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on (press) {
	if (_root.pass == "totally bloody //551") {
		_root.gotoAndStop("freeplay");
	} else {
		_parent.messagebox = "invalid pass";
	}
}

You had the wrong operator if your if statement, the = assigns a value, which wouldn’t make logical sense to do inside of your if statement paraemeters. == compares the two values to see if they are equal (=== compares the values and the datatype).