While, For Loops (Nested)

[proud berry]

local tool = script.Parent
local i = 0
local Counter = 10



while true do
    wait(1)
    i = math.random(1,10)
    
    if i == 5 then
        
        for Counter = 10, 0, -1 do
            wait(1)
            print(Counter)
            Counter = Counter - 1
            if Counter == 0 and tool.Equipped == false then
                print("Countdown Finished and he isnt holding the item")
                break
            end
            if Counter == 0 and tool.Equipped == true then
                print("Countdown Finished and he is holding the item")
                break
            end
        end
        
        Counter = 10
        
    end
    
end

im trying to make a loop that randomly while you play it counts down from 10 to 0. if it reaches 0 and hes not holding the item its going to print as followed. if he is holding it then its also gonna print as followed on the script. i just learnt more about the for and while loops so there maybe errors

maybe not used efficiently either. but its what worked with the countdown for me

i do have a feeling about the equipped = true and false. as its not a boolean value. but im also requesting help for efficient ways to make this script much better.

and with adding 2 counters i know thats another problem but please any help

[bright owl]

tool.Equipped sadly doesn't return ture or false, since its a RBXSignal, an event.

What i would do is, creating a coustom varaible, like local equipped = false

and then using tool.Equipped event set it to true, also for Unequipped, set it to false.

And now for the loop i would do somethings like this, less nested.

for i = 10, 0, -1 do
  wait(1)
  print(i)
end

if equipped then
  print("Equipped")
else
  print("Not equipped")
end

If you don't care about countdown print, i would just use task.delay(10, functionToCheckIfPlayerEquippedOrNot)