Target a Specific Child of an Element Using jQuery - Why 2nd target of both wells?

Tell us what’s happening:
Just wondering why the function $(".target:nth-child(2)").addClass();targets 2nd .target child of both the #left-well & #right-well divs. I would have thought it would count them all as a set and only target the 2nd .target of the #left-well since that comes first.

Can someone please explain. Thanks =)

Your code so far

<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#target1").css("color", "red");
    $("#target1").prop("disabled", true);
    $("#target4").remove();
    $("#target2").appendTo("#right-well");
    $("#target5").clone().appendTo("#left-well");
    $("#target1").parent().css("background-color", "red");
    $("#right-well").children().css("color", "orange");
    $(".target:nth-child(2)").addClass("animated bounce");
  });
</script>

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<div class="container-fluid">
  <h3 class="text-primary text-center">jQuery Playground</h3>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-xs-6">
      <h4>#left-well</h4>
      <div class="well" id="left-well">
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target1">#target1</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target2">#target2</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target3">#target3</button>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-6">
      <h4>#right-well</h4>
      <div class="well" id="right-well">
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target4">#target4</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target5">#target5</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target6">#target6</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

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Link to the challenge:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/target-a-specific-child-of-an-element-using-jquery

Thanks Randell :grinning: That makes sense. What if I wanted to target the nth child of only a specific parent?

Can you please explain this further. I tried searching this further. What is meant by matches every element that is the nth child. I did not get what matching every element is. Also what is the class target?