Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

This brilliant skill has a selection of challenges to train your brain until it's a finely honed fighting machine. Well, better at remembering things and doing quick-fire maths questions anyway. Great sound effects and a lot of fun too.

Jewel's demo yesterday made me stumble upon today's skill of a similar name. Itmight make you want to go back and try 'Animal Letters' or 'Harry Potter Letters' - both covered in earlier episodes.

Brand new contributor Jewel ([email protected]) brings us today's brilliant skill demo and, as she states in the demo, it really needs to be activated in the skill store or else you'l most likely end up enabling tomorrow's skill instead…

Opened with "Shakespeare's words", this first skill serves up only the most erodite and eloquent insults imaginable; “You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!” Henry IV Part 2 (Act 2, Scene 1). We then spot that we can stream the bard's words on Spotify.

Is it too early to start Christmas-related skills? Nooooo! Patrick Steggle ([email protected]) brings us a nice one to kick off the festive season.

Faith dropped in to help on this one. Opened with "Fat calculator", this skill uses the U.S. Navy fitness formula to get an estimated measurement of your body's fat percentage. Use a tape to measure your waist, hip(If your female), neck size and height and the skill provides the dreaded verdict…

You really can never have too many word skills coming into your ears over the ether - and to push that premise to its very limit, let's hear from Patrick Steggle ([email protected]) who once again brings us a very worthy word-based skill.

Today Randy Rusnak (@TheBigR on the Twitters) and I do a double-act demoing Skype calling from the A-lady. We also revisit standard calling Echo to Echo as well as exchanging a voice message or two. Please check out Randy's excellent 'Accessibility Moving Forward' podcast if that sounds like your thing - and send in topic suggestions to [email protected].

I've decided that you can never have too many word games in your podcast queue. Currently subject to an error here in the UK, this skill can be found by searching for 'Sush Productions' as there are around a million results for 'Word game' - so here we go again with big thanks to Patrick Steggle ([email protected]).

I really hope Andrea Barker ([email protected]) doesn't end up getting sucked into the vortex after demoing today's great skill. If you don't mind being paralysed in a stasis chamber, or potentially being burned alive, or coming face to face with an intruding alien that wants to do who-knows-what to you whilst you are in said state, then this skill is for you. Enjoy!