Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Brian Counter (@CultoftheOld on the Twitters) brings us this brilliant demo of a virtual-card-based equivalent of a board game full of fighting aliens and snappy sound-effects. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Suggested by @CultoftheOld, this one takes a bit of setup but then you're quickly into full-on superhero battle action. Desperately needs some super sound-effects, though. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Is it too early to start scaring us out of our wits with some horrible Halloween skills? Nah. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Who'd have thought that there was so much to owning and caring for a guide dog? This new skill will be a great resource for both the guide dog owner and the curious. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

To celebrate Black History Month, let's test our knowledge in this area to the very limit and (probably) far beyond… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Finally, solve your Rubik's Cube so you can put it back on the shelf with all those nice colours neatly in place at last. Today's skill will tell you how to solve any 3x3 Cube in as few a moves as possible, normally just 20. This skill assumes you have a cube with red, green, blue, yellow, white and orange squares, and that white should be opposite yellow, red should be opposite orange, and blue s...

By those clever guys at wordplays.com , this crossword-solving skill could just be the ultimate shortcut to tackling those tricky clues - however CHALLENGING OR cryptic they can be. We covered most of the commands in the demo, but for info you can also say "Next" if the first offered answer isn't correct (some clues will have multiple correct answers of that letter count, say), as well as "Wait" f...

It's Prime Day, er, Days today and tomorrow (13 and 14 Oct) and there are some sweet, sweet deals across Amazon's website. You can also get some amazing Amazon tech at ridiculously low prices through the A-lady herself. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an offi...

The Times is a truly venerable and well-trusted source of news - and now they have a radio station too. Nice. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

From those helpful and informative people at the New York Times, today's skill serves up sound advice on staying healthy and happy. Why not give it a go? Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

If I hadn't been cut short by the doorbell, I'd probs be a tenth level grandmaster mage by now. Either that or toast… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Today we llook at how your Echo's now even better at helping you find just the skill you'd like. We also have a sneaky peek at Yak Yak Quiz - a must-play from those great guys at Vocala. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Covered over 700 episodes ago, this skill will twist your brain into a sort of stress ball in a smoothy-maker scenario. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

You will have a grate mite suing this kills to voles anagrams. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Yikes! There's nothing magic about my maths in this numberpuzzle escape room skill. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

I feel like a right lemon after lofting a losing return in today's tennis-flavoured tribute to Fizz-Buzz. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Wow! This skill's got every single sound of all creatures great and small. God bless them all. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Can you avoid the raptors and help this clever girl escape the island? Can you avoid this skill crashing before you finish your quest? So many questions… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Can it possibly be *that* easy? If you've never escaped from one of these dashed-befuddling escape the room skills, then this one might be the first one you solve - without breaking a sweat. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

This monthly guide and reminder for checking your skin health may just be the most important skill you ever enable… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Today's skill should more accurately be called "Ancient Wiz-dom". Just saying. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Did you know that, contrary to common concensus, toast more often falls butter-side up and cats only have 8 lives? Actually I just made those up, but today's skill is full of that sort of myth-busting goodness. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot...

First covered over 700 episodes ago and simply launched with "Solo Movie Quiz", why not watch this really pretty good movie on Amazon Prime Video and then check out today's superb Star Wars-related skill. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot...

Today's super-skill heroically handles both fitness and fan-facts in one incredible bundle. Also, apparently, The Incredibles 2 is on Amazon Prime Video. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Want to be bombarded with detailed descriptions of deliciously cute dogs getting up to all kinds of capers? If so, then you may well think that this skill is worth its weight in dog biscuits. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟