originally i had a navigation bar with some buttons on it. in interface builder i hooked a button up with the "newGame" action on my main (autocreated) viewcontroller. "newGame" just outputs the board to the console,as a test to see if it's working. well it wasn't. so i decided to get rid of the navbar and just place the button in the main view and hooked it back up like before and it started working. is that because i didn't set up my main view controller as a navbar delegate or responder?originally i had a navigation bar with some but