This might be a huge noob question, but how do you use counters (and for that matter, variables) when making a gamebook-style game? Can you? I've flipped through some tutorials but I'm not sure how much of it applies to gamebooks.

If you're wondering, I want the player to be able to ask exactly three questions, and I plan to use a counter, and perhaps a few boolean variables if I need the info they learned down the line, to keep track.