How do I...find multiple overlaps

Is there an way of checking if a sprite is overlapping a sprite, which is overlapping a different sprite? What I'm trying to do is pick the sprites that contain a specific variable and check if those sprites are overlapping each other and if they are, then check if they also overlapping this one other sprite. Right now I have:

System->pick all, is overlapping

Subevent->System->pick all, is overlapping

but it doesn't work all the time AND it keeps the original overlapped sprites picked and I don't want that.

Are these all instances of the same sprite?

I'm not sure why you are using the second pick all event for it completely overwrites the first picking..

LittleStain - I didn't explain things properly. Sorry about that.

There are 2 different objects involved.

The first overlap picks the "enemy" sprites that are overlapping a "laser" sprite. Then the second overlap picks the "enemy" sprites that are overlapping other "enemy" sprites that are overlapping the "laser" sprite.

As you wrote it in your first post:

enemy compare var

enemy is overlapping enemy

enemy is overlapping laser

And your last post:

enemy is overlapping laser

enemy is overlapping enemy

R0J0hound - That's exactly what I thought too. It sounds like such a logical and obvious solution, but I haven't been able to get it working. Over the last couple days, I've tried using every combination I can think of in the same manner you've suggested, using nested conditions, non-nested conditions and different combinations of loops. I thought maybe I was missing an easier solution, but if you're suggesting the same thing I've been thinking, then I must be on the right track, so I'll keep plugging away at it.