Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Today's quick additional episode is a plea for demos (sent to [email protected] please) thinly disguised as a public information broadcast about successfully playing this very show on your Echo. Blatant, I know.

And another great skill demo today from the ever-helpful Thomas Domville ([email protected]). Taking less than ten minutes, he gives us a tour of this nice, concise audio-adventure game. If you'd like to contribute a demo or two, please do by emailing me at [email protected]. Want to give me some feedback or suggest a skill for us to cover? Drop me a line. Got any good jokes? Ditto. Want to tell all your friends about Dot to Dot? Don't email me - email them. Or send them a tweet. Or go round and knock on their doors and tell them all about it over a cup of tea and a piece of cake.

Sorry about the very late posting of today's episode - it's been a busy one. In this episode we look at the new built-in ability of the A-lady here in the UK to access all the NHS medical wisdom you could ever want.

Today we have a really nice immersive audio-adventure skill by RP Apps. Can you track down the Hell Hounds in the Caves of Obliverax? What's the significance of the partially obscured code in the wooden chest? Why is it so satisfying asking a range of retorical questions in these shownotes and then adding further redundancy by asking for answers on a postcard? Answers on a postcard please.

Using the science of psycho-acoustics (apparently), Pzizz's patented system plays you a sleep optimised mix of music, voiceover, and sound effects that quickly quiets your mind, puts you to sleep, keeps you asleep, and wakes you up feeling refreshed. Ooer!

Today's skill serves up several examples of classy maths puzzles that are far less obvious than the classic "Finally, take away the number you first thought of," clangers. Clever.

Today, Thomas Domville ([email protected]) is spot on with this superb skill. It's audio-geography at its best.

It's your basic trivia quiz show skill today, with a choice of cunning categories and a few perky sound-effects. The Triv Show. Give it a go.

Highlighted in a recent weekly Amazon Echo round-up, this skill is definitely a better bet than the 'Relax My Dog' skill we covered in episode 875. So bury that other one in the back garden and settle down to gnaw on this juicy new offering.

Prepare to empty your brain out into a mixing bowl and give it a good old whisk with today's revisiting of a much more adversarial version of the Bulls and Cows skill (episode 760) but without the bovine twist.