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Update 1/3/18: After this review was posted, an Amazon rep called me and seemed genuinely concerned about my issues. I explained in detail the problems I was having and he promised to forward my information to the appropriate technicians. Today I noticed the Echo Buttons have been changed to "Usually ships in 4-6 weeks" which tells me they've probably pulled them from sale because of returns and hostile reviews. Since 4-6 weeks is well outside the return window, I sent them back today. There is a lot of potential here, but I had two sets of buttons so four people could play and I wasn't willing to lose that much money on a really iffy product. Amazon needs to do better than this. (I am also suspicious of some of the short five star reviews, like "awesome product" and "works great." They are neither awesome nor do they work great.) (Previous review) So many reviews here are harsh, so I won't repeat all the pairing problem complaints, etc., all of which I encountered. One game, Button Monte, might be fun if you were playing with a small child, kind of like "guess which hand the coin is in." The rubber feet on the bottom (a plus in other games) make it hard to slide the buttons around on a table. Trivial Pursuit is kind of fun, but Alexa can't pronounce all of the words in the questions well enough for them to be easily understood. Also, when playing, the game completely froze on a correct answer and the only way to unfreeze it was to give a wrong answer. Alexa then replied with the correct answer she had frozen on and resumed the game. Buggy! We bought four buttons thinking this might make a good party game. NOT! Have you ever played a party game where someone wasn't always talking or there wasn't general chatter? If anyone makes a peep during the answer to TP, Alexa immediately calls out a wrong answer. Even a slight stutter before you begin your answer will get you counted wrong. For instance I was giving the answer "Joaquin Phoenix" and said "wa Joaquin Phoenix" and Alexa said, "Sorry, the correct answer is Joaquin Phoenix." I'm not intending to hate on the buttons. I was one of the first owners of the Echo in November 2014, back when you had to be "invited" to purchase one. I immediately posted a very positive YouTube review which got 50,000+ views. Our home has five Echo devices and I'm a big fan. These buttons just seem rushed to market. I find them more annoying than fun. I'll probably wait a week or two before deciding to return them, but you might want to wait. Right now it feels like a beta level product.