Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Fill your home with the resounding sounds of Westminster Chimes or the mellow hoot of a cuckoo. Got a spare Echo? Bring it back into service by setting up an audible clock and muting the microphone. Nice.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 is a really powerful skill to help you drift off to, er, to…Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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, the lovely Shaun Preece (my co-host on The Echo Show) is here to bring us a fantastic demo of one of the A-lady's top word games.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Tiffany Horn nae Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters) brings us two great knitting-related skills today. I'm glad she didn't drop one…Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Mentioned in a recent list of the top 60 A-lady skills, we covered this one over 1300 episodes ago. If you're into valiant quests and good sound-effects, then you've come to the right skill.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Are you feeling artsy? In other words, are you interested in art, artists, art exhibitions and art-related podcasts? You are??!! Wow, what a coincidence! Have I got a skill for you…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 is for everyone who thinks serious gambling's a seriously good idea 😱 - and we then finish off with a second shameless plug for a new podcast called 'The Echo Show'. Search for it in your podcatching app or ask the lovely A-lady to play it for you. Here's where you can find it online: https://apple.co/3oYUsXs. Please give it a listen and tell your friends, family and pets.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Not got that crucial ingredient for the recipe you're already half way through? Fear not. Ingredient Sub is on the bench ready to spring into action.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 you want up-to-the-minute updates on the scores (and tribulations) in the US presidential election then simply ask the A-lady. Big thanks to Ashley Colburn ([email protected]) for bringing us this timely tip.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 have a quick dose of much-needed relaxation courtesy of the 'Relaxing Sounds' skill, and we then follow that up with a shameless plug for a new podcast called 'The Echo Show'. Search for it in your podcatching app or ask the lovely A-lady to play it for you. Here's where you can find it online: https://apple.co/3oYUsXs. Please give it a listen and tell your friends. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Powered by The History Channel, this skill provides a rundown of noteworthy events that took place on today's date in years past. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 see how to get top-products served up by voice, as well as a mention of the excellent battery base that makes your Dot go mobile. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Edward Packard invented the Choose Your Own Adventure concept in the '70s and his stories are generally considered the best in the genre. In this particular adventure there are 32 endings and more than 2.5 hours of recorded audio. Go to it! Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Our final freaky halloween skill is also from those horrifyingly good guys of Halloween Feel the Pressure Fame. Covered over 700 episodes ago, this one's definitely not for the faint hearted.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Horribly hilarious Halloween-related jokes may or may not be heard in today's demo. You have been warned…Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Another spooky skill to keep us in the Halloween spirit, this time brought to us by that fabulously famous, mystery-busting cartoon crew - oh and Brian Counter too.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 horrifyingly good guys of Halloween Feel the Pressure Fame, comes a series of sort-of-scary monster montages to get you in a horror-full mood.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Not the skill of the same name covered over 400 episodes ago, this one's far groovier and by Labworks.io. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Good thing you've got a walkie talkie as it looks like you're mysterious-voice-person's only hope of escaping alive… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Choose from a spine-chilling selection of scary sounds. Is this skill for kids? Is it? Is it??Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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! That took a while. They are really good titles, though, so let's hope they hang around for longer than those few days advertised.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

First covered by friend of the show Thomas Domville over 500 episodes ago, today's skill demo is a chilling reminder that it's *never* a good idea to go swimming in a lake full of gaters. I think I'm going to go and lie down now… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

What is completely invisible, found in a can, but able to both twist your brain, cross your eyes and keep you coming back for more?Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Weird but strangely entertaining. That's all I've got to say on this one.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 spooky skill is still a great choice for a chilling question or two to put you in a haunted Halloween mood.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 should be opposite green. If your cube is different, just say "I have a different cube".Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍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 🌟

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" for a little more time before the skill closes.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟