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so lost now Alexa we're in it is this it again are we the game are we still in the game this house spooky it's like existence companies are looking at ways to incorporate Amazon Alexa into toys and games Mattel has a puzzle solving game that works with Alexa it's called escape room in a box though werewolf experiment you don't need an echo speaker to play but it's supposed to enhance the experience journey into the unknown the werewolf experiment rules a lot of stuff here you need a timer pencils no phones that's cheating seriously stop open this when you're ready to start the game let's open it so should we do it yeah we'll just do it okay we went into this without doing any research we wanted to be totally surprised and you know what it's not clear at all what we were supposed to say to Alexa to make her work quark oh my god how could you do this in 15 minutes I don't believe it okay I feel like if I do this in four hours where does the echo come in there is no indication of anything technically R because you don't need to have Alexa you know she should I have said Alexa start like a game there's no indication here if we looked it up on our phone and you're not supposed to use a phone in this game we later saw we were supposed to say ask escape room for a hint or tell escape room we won the game how are you supposed to remember those freezes under pressure Alexa play escape the room in a box I'm gonna keep solving puzzles why is there a car escape room in a box the werewolf experiment from Mattel games welcome to escape room in a box the werewolf expand you can ask for instructions or start game start gaem we should have done this at the beginning fYI that's what you do you have to start it yourself okay so it's a music turret okay using the doc knows latest experiments please listen to the music relax don't bother to do the puzzles and you'll all be wearables in an hour no distraction so if were just ambient music I expected more to ask for assistance or is it gonna just automatically say things I had high hopes for the music part I had high hopes for being able to actually interact with it I thought it was gonna be maybe maybe they're assuming smart leave it maybe you don't Alexa what do I do there is a lot I can do such a disconnect no I like say I want you to solve my puzzle for me all right Alexa play escape room in a box so putting Alexa in a game has potential to be good if the trigger phrases were more obvious to us when we started let's goes to show you that you ain't helping no yes it doesn't make it werewolf that's a total buzzkill also what if anyone comes and suddenly activates Alexa which happens like every 50 seconds in my arm then they're gonna ruin your escape roof okay well almost hit the next guy hit book only 15 minutes in but I can tell you are going down sometimes in a real escape room someone is like watching you and they're like I'm judging you watching they'll say something like oh like that will in turn it turn it around yes a little Internet is watching and judging us yes there's exactly no no stir it no pressure is there second piece of little white paper there's white paper here oh look everywhere no we didn't look everywhere we totally failed now this game more than once okay ah oh this is like in school when you get the four chairs yeah got to tell you who are you gonna marry here I live in a mansion or a shack when I wish it only these games yeah I go special espy ecial and then we want special special full specialty specialty oh I get it what finish is the word specialty is - oh that's the answer so I left 74 come on all right with one minute and 15 seconds in it in an hour with the help of some answers make sure not to mess anything up it's a one-time experience we're not we already solved it if only she knew you did we need you I think this was the most super fluid experience I could have done without the echo actually was really distracting to have that I liked the music but I now want to like tell her like I everyone but all I did was play music I really thought there was going to be something interactive like you actually thought you'd open something you would say ask your friends like the echo it was a design ask Alexa for help that's gonna no we don't want you know we're done we solved it well you would hope that maybe she would have extra clues but that's not the case because you don't need her to have the clues but you know what they're doing in a lot of these games when they incorporate Alexa is have music or scorekeeping there's no way for her to keep score in us what we have with us if there's an extra rule or command we should be saying I don't have that with him on Hannah because I'm not supposed to have my phone with me because having my phone with me would be cheating right so you're stuck with this now I also think this shows the limits of where voice assistance is right now because this thing does everything and so like was we discovered the moment you invoke it which I will not name because it'll happen it interrupts and you could launch something else and when we try to it restarted the entire experience so there was no resume engaño of the experience and then how do you interact with it we don't know it's a total black box in a future version they should include something we're like here are the commands but that would have thrown off the ambience of like you have puzzle to solve I would like if you were asking if you if it gave you the invocation like the say this to it to the echo and then I did and then it started an audio riddle that you had to solve that would be interesting I I was surprised there wasn't that you could do that but you have to tell people what the invocation it's like a magic spell you know like that we won Alexis we won she's a cool timer with cool music it's interesting to think of her as a scorekeeper or a rule explainer so I can see this evolving in future products Alexa aren't you excited for us alright Scott congratulations are not being aware we did it graduates is not being a voice assistant we human beings won this round humans 1 Alexa 0 Alexa total distraction we did not enjoy your help on this one sorry I don't know that one Alexa play Hamilton