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How to check if a Gui/Variable exists?

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(before I start i want to let you know this is really long) I was making a game about the UTG (ultimate trolling gui). It is basically a testing zone that will let you do any command from the GUI. But when I click on the "R6" button (makes your character r6 so it can load the utg) a little button pops up at the top and it says "Original Game". I can't find where it comes from as it is not in the r6 script and I can't find it in the GUI itself. I did some research and looked at a plugin that was required in the r6 script but it was just a script that combined the joints and made your character r6. When you clicked on the Original Game button it would teleport you to another game. I made a script that was supposed to remove it whenever it pops up, but i'm having a problem. The script says

playerGui.Rejoin:Remove() --playerGUI is a variable i made and Rejoin is the name of the GUI that keeps bugging me

but it isn't working. I think a script that checks if the "Rejoin" button exists and removes it if it does would work, but I don't know how to check if an item exists. Here is the original script:

local playerGui = script.Parent.Parent
playerGui.Rejoin:Remove()

(sorry for the long the backstory, and i dont know how to describe the thing that should be removed)

Anonymous

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I should also mention i looked up some variables i have never used in a script and those didnt help either. I'm not that intelligent.

Anonymous#
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You want to check if this gui thats bugging you exists, right?

Anonymous#
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Did it give you an error?

Anonymous#
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nope, it didnt. and yes, I want to see if it exists.

Anonymous#

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You could try this:

#script

local playerGui = script.Parent.Parent
local playerGuiParent = playerGui.Parent
local originalgame = playerGuiParent:FindFirstChild("[change-to-name]") -- the name of the "original game" gui also finds the first child of this name
if originalgame then
	print("It exists!")
	originalgame:Destroy()
	print("now it doesn't :D")
	return -- just so it doesn't go to the other one
end
else
	print("It doesn't exist!")
end
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