Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Opened with "Table Manners", this skill serves up a random selection from 47 separate top table tips - each with its own informative illustration if you have an Echo Show. Apparently, you can also buy the complete book on Amazon.

By a developer called Huaraz2, today's first skill is a nice example of your classic escape the room genre. Ignore the fact that, bizarrely, it says "Open Das Escape" in the skillstore" For whatever reason, German has slipped into the phrase with no justification whatsoever. Part zwei was going to be tomorrow, but I inadvertently completed the first one so we're doing both today.

Found in the skillstore simply as 'Operator', this game will do a nice job of operating on your brain to bring it up a notch or two in the maths department. If you work in an actual Maths Department, why not use a real-life version of Operator on your unsuspecting students to help crank up their brilliant brains a notch or two too?

Once again Patrick Steggle ([email protected]) is back to help us with another great skill; Escape Hunt. Actually, it's not really an escape-type scenario guys - and we're not actually being hunted by anyone either. We are hunting for things, though, but there definitely isn't any investigating and fiddling with items in the hope of escaping involved. Actually, it's more riddly than fiddly I'd say…

Faith is helping out again today. By Amazon, the skill we're taking a swing at here needs two of those cute Echo buttons. Is it a hit or a miss? Well, if you have two fully-functioning buttons you could probably ace it. It's more of a McEnroe moment for us, though…

Today we have a very soothing demo brought to us by the very smooth David Woodbridge (@dwoodbridge). I love a nice relaxing sound skill, that's for sure. If that chimes with you, then definitely give it a go.

Oooooooooh! Do you dare enter this famous (or should I say "Infamous") hotel to experience the horrors within? Do so at yourown virtual peril. And remember, don't ring the bell…

A certain someone (namely Patrick Steggle - [email protected]) is back to perform further extended escapology in today's slightly dungeony demo.

Your plane goes down in the deep, dark, dinosaur-infested Satpura Forest. Can you escape? It's an Indian twist on a classic genre designed to engender almost definite distress - if not an instant conversion into dino-fodder.

Today I learned that Penny Golden ([email protected]) does a mean demo of your random fact generater-type skill. Also, TIL that she knows how to get the A-lady to serve up new skill suggestions too.