Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

If you want to hear all about how big cats are cared for in one rescue centre in the US then this skill's for you. Take a virtual tour, listen to their stories and, if you're moved to donate to their upkeep, you can now do that through the A-lady (account linking required).

David Ward ([email protected]) shows us how to set up and use the A-lady's reminders, now with a newly-added location-based twist.

Get ready to learn 100 words worthy of slipping into your daily dialogue and then quiz yourself on how quickly you can bring them to mind based only on their slightly obscure definitions.

Penny Golden ([email protected]) has money to invest and a head for business. Will she have the willpower to wave away a decidedly dodgy deal in disguise and also be able to back the next big thing? Whatever her investment accumin, she's an angel for sending in all these skill demos.

Men are able to multi-task - fact or fib? Fib (if I'm a representative example). Listen to today's episode and you'll see why.

After my poor showing with Bulls and Cows the other day, Ashley Colburn ([email protected]) comes to the rescue with a different and altogether snappier version of the game - only this time it honours the 'ladies first' principle which should quite properly extend to the animal kingdom too.

There's Klingons on the starboard bow, the odds of surviving that asteroid field are 7 million to one against and the bridge's coffee machine is on the blink! Luckily, these are 3 of the many challenges you won't be facing in today's groovy space-based skill.

Today the excellent Randy Rusnak (@TheBigR on the Twitters) demos a skill with a blindness twist. Created by the marvellous @JonathanMosen, this skill is for everyone who remembers (or would like to be initiated into) the wonders of the last 3½ decades of blindness tech.

Also by Voxogenic, today's skill is a bovine twist on that old masterpiece; Mastermind. Chew the cud while you carefully calculate your next coded response. If you do better than my lamentable attempt, please send the recording to me at [email protected].

Today Patrick Steggle ([email protected]) catapults us into the inky void of interstellar space where we're in somewhat of a nasty Nostromo situation here, guys. Where's Ellen Ripley when you need her…