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Our Favourite Alexa Skills to Play at Home

Published: May 5, 2020, 7 a.m.

In this episode, Teri will share some of his favorite skills that we can all use at home particularly while we are self-quarantining at home.

 

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We are living in very challenging times right now with the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are all spending more time at home than ever before which has led to an increased use of voice assistants. Teri will talk about the five skills that his family uses on a regular basis. They include games and many other ways that they use Alexa for entertainment.

And The Teri Fisher Top Five Skills Are:

#1 - Question of the Day

  • This is super fun and the best trivia skill so far in Teri’s opinion.
  • It works by asking the user a multiple point question and then keeps track of how the user is doing, gives them points, keeps track of the users streaks, and so much more.
  • It's a very fun way of learning some random facts.
  • When someone gets their question right, the skill gives them a bonus question. It even has badges that users earn.
  • There are lots of gamification aspects to the skill that makes a user want to keep playing.
  • It was made by MatchBox.io
  • It’s invocation word is, “Alexa, start Question of the Day” or “Alexa, enable Question of the Day”

#2 - Would You Rather?

  • This is a game that gives the user a random question, for example, “Would you rather itch all the time or sneeze all the time?”
  • Multiple people can play the game together at the same time.
  • It has different categories, including General, Magic, and Hogwarts.
  • It gives users the answers in terms of what most people say.

#3 - Kid’s Court

  • It was done by Pretzel Labs and its awesome especially for kids because Alexa acts as a judge, and she helps to give a judgement on different situations that may be happening at home.
  • The user goes to judge Alexa and she rules on something that has happened, typically when kids are fighting or not getting along. They can each state their case, defend themselves, and even learn some law concepts in the process.
  • The command for it is, “Alexa, open Kid’s Court”

#4 - Song Quiz

  • The command for it is, “Alexa, open Song Quiz”
  • It’s a name-a-tune type of skill/game.
  • A user can choose the number of players they want and if they’re playing alone, the skill can match them up to play with someone else in the world.
  • One can choose music from different decades and it plays a short segment of a song so one can name the title and artist. If one gets both the title and artist right, they get bonus points.
  • It’s very well produced and has lots of great sound effects built into it.

#5 - Akinator

  • The command for it is, “Alexa, open Akinator”
  • It guesses who the user is thinking of and it does that by asking the user a series of questions.
  • It amazingly correctly guesses who someone is thinking of most of the time.

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