Storyboard UIImageview problem

Hello everybody,

I'm new to iphone/ipad development so please bare with me

I have multiple UIImageviews on my storyboard already assigned to images but all of them are hidden, all i want to do is show the UIImageview using its tag based on the button i press (which happens to have the same tag)

here is the code
in the .h file

Code:

 IBOutlet UIImageView *hintImage;

@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIImageView *hintImage;

in the implementation file
@synthesize hintImage;

-(IBAction)appear:(id)sender{
          int imageIndex = ((UIButton *)sender).tag;   	
         [hintImage viewWithTag:imageIndex];	    
         hintImage.hidden = NO;
}

here is what happens:
if i just leave it like this and run, nothing happens when i press the button

if i make a reference in the storyboard from any UIImageview to hintImage, only one reference it allowed, i cannot reference the other image views to hintImage, so accordingly in runtime when i click the button only the referenced imageview appears no matter which button i choose

can anybody tell me how to fix it and i if i have a wrong logic!!

 

is it a vague question or a hard one