Alexa-Skill für Zug um Zug

  • … und wenn man dann gegen die Bots verloren hat, wird man von Alexa ausgelacht :D

    Why is Amazon doing this? To make more money, of course, but more specifically, at the press event an Amazon rep said that one of the most frequent error messages they get for Alexa is from people asking Alexa how to play such-and-such a game, with this being a skill previously unavailable on Alexa. Days of Wonder has sold millions of copies of games in the Ticket to Ride series, and I'm sure the customer service department receives plenty of questions about how to play. Amazon knows how many copies of the game it's sold and who has purchased them, and now it can send these buyers a message about this new skill — and if those buyers now play a game that's previously been hidden in a closet, some percentage of them will buy more games in the series, similar to how the introduction of the Ticket to Ride app years ago led to more sales of the physical game.


    The biggest hurdle that exists to getting more people playing board games is the need for them to learn rules prior to playing. A video game allows you to start, then hit buttons and move around at random until you figure things out; board games don't allow players that same luxury. As for where this goes in the future, who knows? The rules-teaching app Dized has been in the works for years, and I don't know whether it's gained traction with publishers and players, but Amazon and Days of Wonder have a larger customer base upon which to launch a program like this. We'll see what comes in the years ahead.

  • Würde Alexa jede Woche die Lottozahlen vorhersagen, würde die ja jeder richtig tippen und dann keiner mehr was gewinnen, weil die Gewinnquoten gegen Null tendieren ...

    Ich sag doch, dann will ich das Ding nicht haben;) sonst aber auch nicht. Und ich liebe "Zug um Zug", damit hat das nichts zu tun.