Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Which word is to 'Ear' as 'Hive' is to 'Honey'? Patrick Steggle ([email protected]) brings us more brilliant examples of braintwisting sequences in this superb skill. I'll give you a clue - bees also make this stuff too…

The big mystery here is why I keep forgetting to say the bronze key - it's the bronze key…

Are you a woolhead? Well, never again forget how many rows you've knitted or pearled, because today Ashley Colburn ([email protected]) brings us a brilliant skill that keeps track of those rows for you.

It feels a little like Groundhog Day as I demo today's skill; 'Castle Adventure' (or should I call it 'A Dozen Ways to Die'?)

Can Patrick Steggle ([email protected]) escape the sinister clutches of the mysterious surgeons and make his escape? There's only one way to find out. Well, two maybe. Actually three. You could listen to today's episode, I suppose email Patrick himself and beg him to tell you, or ditto myself. I personally plan on being pretty taciturn on the subject though, but the choice is yours…

Today we look at two nice backing track skills that are invoked in the same way. They do have slightly different names in the skillstore, however, and the first is by Max Lamberti and the second by Stoked Skills LLC.

First we ask the A-lady for the next week's weather and then we revisit the updated Big Sky skill- the best weather skill under the sun in my opinion (now with some premium content for radar enthusiasts everywhere…)

Thanks to you guys we've made it to 800! Today's skill looks like a really lovely audio adventure by those nice guys who made the 'Escape the Room' skill; Days Fly. Great sound effects and all the old familiar characters. Have we done this one before? No. No way. Never.

Somebody (specifically Patrick Steggle - [email protected]) completed this choose-your-own adventure skill and someone else (namely me) shortened it so as not to give away the ending.

Zap! Pow! Blatt! Kapow! Those would be the sound effects in this skill if your opponent were any of the evil villains in Batman. As it is, however, they're more your normal boxing noises that punctuate this pugilistic skill that surely pulls no punches.