Games You Can Play With Alexa: The Big List for 2026

Your Echo can do a lot more than set timers. There are hundreds of games you can play with Alexa, from two-minute quick games to murder mysteries, TV quiz shows and puzzles you solve out loud. The tricky part is knowing what to ask for.

So here's our big list of Alexa games, sorted by type, with a line or two on each and the exact words to start it. Most of them are free to enable, and nearly all of them work on any Echo speaker.

How to Start Playing Games on Alexa

Alexa games are called skills, and you don't need to install anything. Just say the name:

1. Say "Alexa, open" and the game's name, for example "Alexa, open Mini Games".
2. The first time, Alexa enables the skill for you. If you're asked a question, answer it out loud.
3. To stop, say "Alexa, stop". Next time, just open it again.

Many of the games below live inside Mini Games, a single skill with 45 games in it. Open it and say "play" and a game's name, or jump straight to a game with the command we give. Mini Games is free to enable, and free players can play up to 10 games a day. If you want more, Unlimited Mini Games removes the daily limits. For a step-by-step walkthrough, see how to play games with Alexa skills.

Quick Games You Can Play in a Few Minutes

Perfect for the kettle boiling or the five minutes before school.

• Beat the Buzzer: five true or false questions, and one wrong answer buzzes you out. Say "Alexa, open Beat the Buzzer".
• Zombie Racing: four zombies lurch round a graveyard track. Pick the one you think will win and earn Zombie Boogers if you're right. Say "Alexa, open Zombie Racing".
• Reindeer Racing: the festive version. Choose one of Santa's reindeer and cheer it through the snow. Say "Alexa, open Reindeer Racing".
• Rock, Paper, Scissors Minus One: you and Gloopy the slime monster each throw two hands, then keep one. Lose the best of three and you drop into the Slime Pit. Say "Alexa, open Rock, Paper, Scissors Minus One".
• Fire, Ice, Water: Fire melts Ice, Ice freezes Water and Water douses Fire, and the wizard's Crystal Ball shows you the odds of his next move. Say "Alexa, open Fire, Ice, Water".
• Power Penalties and Sumo Wrestling: two games where your voice is the controller. Shout to shoot, shout to shove.

Short on time? We've rounded up more in quick Alexa games under 2 minutes.

Quizzes and Trivia Games

Trivia is the most popular kind of Alexa game, and for good reason: it works brilliantly by voice.

• Quiz Games: 490 multiple choice quizzes in 15 categories, from Sport and History to Anything Goes, where you'll find quizzes on pineapples and yodelling. Pick a category, then a topic, and earn Quiz Points for the leaderboard. Say "Alexa, open Quiz Games".
• Leaning Tower of Pizza: true or false with a twist: you have to say the opposite of the right answer. Every fib grows Pinocchio's nose towards the big red button. Say "Alexa, open Leaning Tower of Pizza".
• Alien Customs: a suspicious alien slug quizzes you on Jupiter's very odd laws, one luggage item at a time. Answer yes or no and get three items approved. Say "Alexa, open Alien Customs".
• Emoji Game: guess the animal from a set of emoji clues. This one needs an Echo Show. Say "Alexa, open Emoji Game".
• Question of the Day (by Volley): one trivia question a day from one of six categories, free for everyone. Say "Alexa, play Question of the Day".

TV Quiz Shows on Alexa

Several of the big TV quiz shows have official Alexa skills, made by the studios Vocala and Volley. All of these have thousands of ratings on Amazon.

• Pointless: find the correct answers the fewest of 100 people gave, with a new Daily Quiz every day and Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman along for the ride. Say "Alexa, open Pointless".
• Song Quiz: hear a clip and name the song and the artist, with music from the 60s to the 2010s. Say "Alexa, open Song Quiz".
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: climb the money tree to $1,000,000, with lifelines and new questions every day. Say "Alexa, open Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".
• Tenable: name as many answers on a top ten list as you can before your lives run out, with Warwick Davis commentating. Say "Alexa, open Tenable".
• Jeopardy!: the clue comes first, with new clues every weekday read by Mayim Bialik. Say "Alexa, play Jeopardy".
• Deal or No Deal: pick a box, open the rest and decide whether to take the Banker's offer. No real prizes, sadly. Say "Alexa, open Deal or No Deal".
• Wheel of Fortune: spin the wheel and solve the puzzles. It's designed for Echo Show and is only in the US store. Say "Alexa, play Wheel of Fortune".

Family and Party Games

These are the ones to bring out when everyone's in the room.

• The Werewolf: a werewolf is loose in the village. Listen to the Mayor, the Baker, the Butcher and the rest, then pick out the liar. Great for arguing over as a family. Say "Alexa, open The Werewolf".
• The Imposter: a secret word goes round the squad, but one agent doesn't know it. Spot who's bluffing. Say "Alexa, open The Imposter".
• Decision Time: would you rather fly or be invisible? Answer and see how your choice compares with the rest of the world. Say "Alexa, open Decision Time".
• Dad Joke Duel: Alexa tells a dad joke, you vote on whether it's funny or painful, and you find out what everyone else thought. Say "Alexa, open Dad Joke Duel".
• Blob Battle: a squishy strategy game where bigger blobs swallow smaller ones. Play the computer or a friend on an Echo Show. Say "Alexa, open Blob Battle".
• Wonky Tunes: finish a silly lyric, let Alexa sing it, then hear what a brutally honest AI judge makes of it. Say "Alexa, open Wonky Tunes".

Story and Adventure Games

Radio plays where you decide what happens. Pour a drink and settle in.

• Escape the Mansion: a ghost called Lord Mortimer has locked you in his creaky mansion. Search 15 rooms, combine what you find, and ask Jinx the sarcastic black cat for hints. Say "Alexa, ask Mini Games to play Escape the Mansion".
• Noodle Rush: you're broke, starving and desperate for a bowl from Slurpy's Noodle Bar. Answer yes or no and find all 10 endings. Say "Alexa, open Noodle Rush". Here's our full Noodle Rush guide.
• Tutankhamun's Lair: decode an ancient chant of high and low tones deep inside the boy king's tomb. Say "Alexa, open Tutankhamun's Lair".
• Alien Invasion: a radio play in five chapters set in a blacked-out London, where you crack codes, count notes and decode Morse. Say "Alexa, ask Mini Games to play Alien Invasion".
• Hotel Detective: a scream rings out in the hotel. Question the guests and work out which room it came from. Say "Alexa, open Hotel Detective".
• Pirate Quest: take the helm and hunt for buried treasure among parrots, peril and pirate puns. Say "Alexa, open Pirate Quest".
• The Magic Door: an interactive adventure with original stories, where you help a princess find her crown, find a gnome's key and much more. Say "Alexa, open the Magic Door".

Puzzle and Brain Games

• Puzzle Games: ten brain games in one free skill: Riddle Challenge, Word Link, Math Chain, Theme Connect, Math Dash and Memory Match, plus Sudoku of the Day, Join 4, Tic Tac Toe and Marble Solitaire on an Echo Show. You earn stars in every game. Say "Alexa, open Puzzle Games".
• Number Snake: repeat a string of numbers, and every round the snake grows by one. Say "Alexa, open Number Snake".
• Pizza Perfect: customers at Gino's pizzeria call out their toppings and you repeat the order back, which gets longer every round. Say "Alexa, open Pizza Perfect".
• Granny Quest: guide Granny to her lost knitting by saying up, down, left or right, but she won't stop until she bumps into something. 20 levels, and it needs an Echo Show. Say "Alexa, open Granny Quest".
• Squirrel Mania and Mouse Trap: a nutty take on Battleships, and a game of picking safe cheeses from 1 to 100 while avoiding the one with the trap.
• Akinator: think of a real or fictional character and the genie tries to guess who it is by asking questions. Say "Alexa, open Akinator".

Games for Kids

Lots of the games above are great with children. A few that younger players especially enjoy:

• Pet My Monster: hatch an egg, name your monster, then feed it, play with it and let it rest. Say "Alexa, open Pet My Monster".
• Animal Sounds: real recordings of more than 240 animals, from an alpaca to a yak, each with a fun fact. Say "Alexa, ask Animal Sounds for a pig sound".
• Sound Snap and Bing Bong Banana: listening and memory games full of silly noises.
• Penguin Curling: slide your penguins down the ice against Captain Penguinius, picking a power from 1 to 10. Say "Alexa, open Penguin Curling".
• Animal Idol: you're the judge of a singing contest for very odd animals. Say "Alexa, open Animal Idol".

Silly and Fun Alexa Skills

Not quite games, but guaranteed giggles.

• Big Fart: a prank fart machine with dozens of named farts, from long and squeaky to triumphant, and a fart countdown to surprise a friend. Say "Alexa, play Big Fart".
• Fart Game: a memory game where you match pairs of fart sounds. Say "Alexa, open Fart Game".
• Silly Seagull: keep a clumsy seagull in the air by eating snacks and, yes, pooping to stay light. Say "Alexa, open Silly Seagull".
• Happy Birthday: Alexa sings Happy Birthday using the birthday person's name, with dogs, cats or an opera singer if you like. Say "Alexa, open Happy Birthday", then "sing to Bob".
• Santa Claus: Christmas stories, Santa's own songs, cracker jokes and a countdown of sleeps. Say "Alexa, ask Santa Claus how many sleeps till Christmas".
• Alien Friend: chat with Cosmo from the moon city of FloatRock and fill your Friend-o-Meter to unlock moves like the Tango and the Moonwalk. Cosmo is an AI character. Say "Alexa, open Alien Friend".
• Rap Robot: give it a topic and it spins a freestyle rap. Say "Alexa, open Rap Robot".

Strategy and Tycoon Games

For when you want something to chew on.

• Royal Bluff: bluff your way to the Queen's crown and catch the fibbers. Say "Alexa, open Royal Bluff".
• Potion Class: one of your classmates is a spy who keeps making potions go BOOM. Find out who before the Grand Potion. Say "Alexa, open Potion Class".
• Snowball Fight: build your fort, make deals with Maple, Pine and Oak streets and find the secret traitor. Say "Alexa, open Snowball Fight".
• Pancake Empire and Chocolate Factory: grow a breakfast empire or a sweet factory, one voice command at a time.
• Piranha Tower: shout commands to fight off waves of mutant piranhas.
• Nuclear War: five tense rounds of diplomacy, defence and deception as the leader of a superpower.

That's still only part of it. Mini Games also has Bridge of Doom, Piggy Bank, Workout Warrior and plenty more, and you can see every one on our home page.

Which Alexa Games Need a Screen?

Almost every game on this list works on a speaker like an Echo Dot, because you play them with your voice. A few need a screen: in Mini Games, Granny Quest, Blob Battle, Emoji Game and the Tappables hub need an Echo Show, as do Sudoku of the Day, Join 4, Tic Tac Toe and Marble Solitaire in Puzzle Games, and Wheel of Fortune is designed for Echo Show too. On an Echo Show, the voice games also come with pictures, so you can see the zombies race or watch Lord Mortimer float about.

Want more ideas? Try our list of top free Alexa games or our Halloween games on Alexa.