What to do if you want a function to only happen once and not keep repeating?

Hello! I will give you an abstract Idea to how to do it, I am going to make a touch function that will only work once:

local debounce = true
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) and debounce then
        debounce = false
        wait(1)
        local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
        print("Hit by plr named "..plr.Name)
    end
end)

As you can see, I used the debounce variable, which lets you only step on the brick once. Hope it helps! Please accept if helps.

I think I understand your question. Here is an example below:

local canReward = 1 --You'd start this at 1 for reasons later.

function reward()
    if canReward == 1 then
        --Run the rewarding script in here

        canReward = 0
        --Set canReward to 0 so the function cannot reward again
    end
    if canReward == 0 then
        print("Player has already been rewarded!")
    end
end

--Basically what this script does is it has an overall reward variable. If that variable is 1, then the player gets rewarded and the variable gets set to 0, which means that it cannot reward the next time the player does the task.

Hope this helped, and happy scripting!