Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

With groovy sound-effects, great game-play and a sassy style, this game's a winner. Play solo or with friends, but definitely give it a go. Big thanks to Sam for volunteering to be a victim - er, volunteer - in helping me demo this one.

Today we look at a trading game with the flavour of a wooden leg about it. Enjoy sailing the seven seas, trading at each port, but watch out for other pirates who'd like to purloin your plunder. Actually, my friend was engaged to a man with a wooden leg once - until she broke it off…

A quick additional episode today as Penny Golden ([email protected]) kindly brings us the US versions of the A-lady's short stories.

Today, with the help of Phillip Chalker, we're revisiting the A-lady's ability to tell us nice short stories and then I explain about the new mysterious sleep timer function that almost resulted in a burnt offering in the kitchen department.

I was robbed. More surely than an unwary hoody-wearer with copious pockets would be with a carelessly-stowed mobile phone and when enjoying  a distracted saunter down Carnaby Street! Actually I should probably just not have said the answer so quickly…

Penny's back. We first looked at this skill over 200 episodes ago - waaay before most of you started listening. Of course you can go back and listen to as many earlier episodes as you like (if you have a marked masochistic streak), but today it's well worth a classy reworking of this wonderful skill. Thanks Penny ([email protected])

Oh the serendipity! Episode 404 (which just happens to be recorded in a busy office - sorry about that) includes a skill which, amongst other fascinating facts, mentions about an http error code! How perfect is that?

Today it's a bit of me and a bit of Phillip Chalker so we're simultaneously coming at you from opposite ends of the Earth - scary. Phillip is demonstrating a handy flight bargain and booking skill and I give a quick blast of an airborne trading game in a similar vein.

If you've seen this recent blockbuster superhero movie and you'd like to test your trivia powers then today's quiz might be for you. And it has sound-effects which makes it a superbly heroic skill if you ask me. You didn't? Oh.