[F8]variables in one MC accessed by another MC?

So i have a timeline with 2 frames, first frame has a movie clip on it called Game, I define a bunch of variables in it, once the game is played it goes to the next frame on the main timeline, called score. How do I go about accessing the variables from movie clip Game in the movie clip Score? I tried _root.Game.variable, I tried _level0.Game.variable nothing seems to work... not sure how to solve this problem. I'm praying I don't need to redefine all the variables to _root.variable so that they can be accessed by both MC's...

no one? is it possible?