Resetting score count back to 0

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

When I restart my game everything appears to reset back to 0 but when I increase the score for the first time again it increase by 3 instead of 1 like it is supposed to.  Any suggestions on whats wrong?

This is code I have in the game part in the createScene function:

[lua]score = 0
count = 0
local timeLimit = 20
local timerHandle

timeLeft = display.newText(timeLimit, 160, 20, native.systemFontBold, 100)
timeLeft.x = display.contentCenterX
timeLeft.y = display.contentCenterY
timeLeft:setFillColor(0,0,0)

local function timerDown()
timeLimit = timeLimit-1
timeLeft.text = timeLimit
if(timeLimit==0)then
timer.cancel(timerHandle)
timer.alpha = 0
storyboard.gotoScene(“restart”)
storyboard.purgeScene(“game”)
end
end

timerHandle = timer.performWithDelay(1000,timerDown,-1)

function shoot(event)
if event.phase == “began” then
bullsEye.x = math.random(0, display.contentWidth - 40)
bullsEye.y = math.random(0, display.contentHeight - 100)
score = score + 1
count = count + 1
scoreText.text = score
if count == 15 then
timeLimit = timeLimit + 5
count = 0
end
end
return true
end

function endGame(event)
if event.phase == “began” then
bullsEye.alpha = 0
timeLeft.alpha = 0
timer.cancel(timerHandle)
storyboard.purgeScene(“game”)
storyboard.gotoScene(“restart”)
end
return true
end[/lua]

#2

I don’t see you resetting score to 0 anywhere, could that be it? (Lines top of scene file are only run once, maybe this helps: http://coronalabs.com/blog/2013/08/20/tutorial-reloading-storyboard-scenes/))

#3

when the scene is loaded back up again doesn’t everything reset?

#4

i even tried putting  score = 0 and count = 0 in the restart function to reset it to 0 but that didn’t work either…

#5

I don’t see you resetting score to 0 anywhere, could that be it? (Lines top of scene file are only run once, maybe this helps: http://coronalabs.com/blog/2013/08/20/tutorial-reloading-storyboard-scenes/))

#6

when the scene is loaded back up again doesn’t everything reset?

#7

i even tried putting  score = 0 and count = 0 in the restart function to reset it to 0 but that didn’t work either…