How do I Picking Instance

Well I am having a picking issue again.

I have a exploding worm spawning when the player is with in the line of sight of this bird.

Which works. I then have it when the bullet hits the exploding worm , play animation when exploding worm hp is less than or equal to 0. For some reason when I hit the first worm it affects all of them...

I tried the picking of nearest option, for when the bullet hits the worm it picks the nearest one to affect but that

does not seem to work..any help would be appreciated.

this is the boss bird where the worms fly out of

You are using a single global variable for the worms. You should be using an instance variable for each worm.

Im going to try that right now. After reading that I remembered that was my same solution, I dont know why I cant remember to use the instance variable with in the sprite. Thanks for the help.

thanks Hornet, I think you saved me last time too. dang memory of mine.