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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy it for the sounds! Feb 28, 2006
By S. Newton
"randomreader"
I ordered this for my 3 year old and while he likes putting the puzzle together the sounds are completely random and unreliable. I've tried everything I can think of. Sometimes it makes sounds and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it makes only one letter sound for all the letters. Sometimes it makes some sounds but not others. I've used new batteries etc. But the puzzle is OK if you just remove the batteries. Not worth the price tag though.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 help for other reviewers Jul 10, 2008
By liseetsa mann
We have so many Melissa and Doug puzzles. However, we don't have this one. We have the number sound and both abc and numbers chunky puzzles. With the sound puzzles, there are LIGHT SENSORS under each letter, number, vehicle, etc... When the puzzle is in the shade and/or sun, fluctuating light from the windows and the room, will activate the sounds. Just place another puzzle over it when you are finished playing with it. "Stack the sound puzzles" and they settle down.
I hope this helps.
These puzzles have been instrumental in my 36 month old child READING and doing simple mathematics already. In addition, it has enhanced his ability to speak. He started by repeating the puzzle and then started "racing" the speaker.
Get them out of the light and give them another try.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
It doesn't shut up! Jan 26, 2007
By Mari
There is nothing like waking up at 2AM few nights in a row to the voice saying " O is for Olive". Keep in mind that it takes you a few moments before you can correctly determine that it is a puzzle talking, and not an intruder or "voices" that you are now hearing. (I completely panicked the first two times). And it will keep repeating the phrase 20+ times (I counted), so you will HAVE to get out of bed, in the middle of the night to look for a screwdriver, so that you can take out the batteries, because there is no off switch!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Better if it's mute. Dec 22, 2010
By Y. S. Lai
"Go, see, click, click, click"
I bought this for my 2.5 year-old. I usually love all the M&D toys I purchased for my boys. This is my first disappointment. This puzzle has light sensors and I think this is a bad choice. It annoys me that it is not reliable and it says the wrong letter almost 70% of the time! How is that going to teach a child his ABC? Now that he's 3 and knows all his ABC he will laugh at how wrong this puzzle is, and thinks this is "silly". And if this is left in a certain position in a semi lit room, sometimes it will just yell out an alphabet non-stop. Also, this doesn't have an on/off switch button. So to stop the sound, I have to keep it face down so no light can get to it. Now that we have a younger child, we'll just have to take off the batteries in this puzzle for him to play as a normal wooden puzzle so as to prevent teaching the child wrong association to those alphabets! If you do have this, please use it in a well lit (and with even lighting) area.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 False self-promotion? Mar 03, 2006
By Spaezel
Ours works okay except for the T, which is unreliable. We can live with that, but I'm a bit irked that it says, "Now I know my ABC's" with notes across the bottom of the front implying that it will also emit the alphabet song, but it doesn't. Mind you, it doesn't say it DOES on the description on the back, but I still think it's misleading.
The previous reviewer's one sounds like a real dud - I'd ask to exchange it as there are alphabet puzzles without sound (including a couple from Melissa and Doug) with more cleanly and attractively shaped letters at a lower price). This is apparently a good item to buy with caution and where it can be easily exchanged for one that works (try it out on the spot if it doesn't need to be still in the packaging when you give it to your child.)
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