# Ask screen not responding to B/Enter Key

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/ask-screen-not-responding-to-b-enter-key/41673>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** game\
**Created:** [January 22, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/ask-screen-not-responding-to-b-enter-key/41673 "2026-01-22T22:20:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![WhenTheWorldCrashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e68b1a/32.png) [@WhenTheWorldCrashes](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WhenTheWorldCrashes)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/ask-screen-not-responding-to-b-enter-key/41673/1 "2026-01-22T22:20:31Z")

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Hey! Currently I am having a lot of problems with my user input section. This is specifically on the splash “difficulty number” section, as it is not allowing for the user to go beyond this screen even when they press enter. Does anyone know why it does this?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/3X/0/4/048f72afbd78a40ed4b3e4ae536c212d09b1b5b7.png)  
If anyone has any tips as to fix this, please let me know! My teacher and I are stumped!

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![WoofWoof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/woofwoof/32/32523_2.png) [@WoofWoof](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WoofWoof)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/ask-screen-not-responding-to-b-enter-key/41673/2 "2026-01-22T23:07:22Z")

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I’ve never seen this before, so it’s either a Makecode issue or something somewhere else in your code. Could you share the project? I may be able to see some other cause with the rest of the code, though really nothing should be running before the On Start block. I have just tried this same thing in a new project and it’s working fine on my end.

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**Author:** ![WhenTheWorldCrashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e68b1a/32.png) [@WhenTheWorldCrashes](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WhenTheWorldCrashes)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/ask-screen-not-responding-to-b-enter-key/41673/3 "2026-01-23T17:17:50Z")

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Yes! Here you go. [https://arcade.makecode.com/S96003-09097-30166-65567](https://arcade.makecode.com/S96003-09097-30166-65567) The weird thing is my interactions with other games work…So it may be my code? I’m honestly confused.

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**Author:** ![Air](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/air/32/26413_2.png) [@Air](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Air)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/ask-screen-not-responding-to-b-enter-key/41673/4 "2026-01-24T03:10:59Z")

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has it always been like this? if not, when did it start? do you have any versions of the game backed up???

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**Author:** ![WhenTheWorldCrashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e68b1a/32.png) [@WhenTheWorldCrashes](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WhenTheWorldCrashes)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/ask-screen-not-responding-to-b-enter-key/41673/5 "2026-01-26T04:04:50Z")

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It hasnt always been like this, but its unclear why it started. It started during one play, when I hadnt changed my code. I do have another version backed up: [https://arcade.makecode.com/S82852-34994-76296-60924](https://arcade.makecode.com/S82852-34994-76296-60924)

This was before I added the user input, which is required for my project.

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**Author:** ![WoofWoof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/woofwoof/32/32523_2.png) [@WoofWoof](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WoofWoof)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/ask-screen-not-responding-to-b-enter-key/41673/6 "2026-01-26T16:09:42Z")

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This issue is that your game freezes after you press enter. Here is the culprit:

 ![IMG_1276](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/3X/c/6/c67da4224e3286d714f1588fcbf3ba81ac21ad2f.jpeg)  
When putting code inside an On Game Update block, the game will not update the screen until the code inside stops running, so you game will freeze entirely until “collected all orbs” is true.