Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Put a message in a bottle and see who picks it up. Pick up others' bottles and send them a reply. Sounds good? It is (except for the dodgy grammar that abounds in this skill).

Three skills; Minecraft Fan Did You Know, Crafting Coach and Crafter Quiz. You'll have to listen to today's episode to find out what they do - my health rating is too low to explain.

It's here. An unofficial but nevertheless pretty faithful version of the classic multiple-choice adventure game. Open the mailbox and let the fun begin.

What is black and blue and red all over? A boxer whose really embarrassed about how badly he lost. Actually that's more like a joke than a riddle - and a bad one at that but I did just make it up. In this episode we look at Alexa's built-in riddling functionality and two riddle skills; Riddle Me and Riddle Me This.

Something strange has moved into the caves under Thornhill. Are you brave enough to sit in the safety of your own home and explore this virtual and entirely imaginary menacing maze? For the sake of humanity (or at least Thornhill) I sincerely hope so...

Can you capture the correct meaning of an obscure word from a number of abstruse decoy definitions designed to obfuscate? Me neither - most of the time.

Try not to think about lice floating in a cup of water as you listen to this really groovy and nicely produced audio truth or lie multiple choice skill.

My very sanity is in jeopardy playing this skill which, as you will only too readily see, is totally beyond my meagre abilities. Good luck playing this excellent skill which seems very faithful to the US TV show.

For our visually-impaired listeners, in this additional episode Randy and Jason give us a brief demo of the updated Alexa app with new calling features using the built-in screen-reader; VoiceOver.

In this episode, the first contributed by you fab listeners to Dot to Dot, Randy Rusnak (@Thebigr on Twitter) and Jason Castonguay (@Jcast) take us through the new built-in capabilities of the Echo to do voice calls, voice messaging and texts. Please send them a tweet to tell them what stars they are.