Alexa is a great addition to the family, hastening everyday tasks and household appliances. She’s a serious tool for serious time-savers, but did you know about the Alexa Easter eggs? Not everything about Alexa is truly efficient, as she likes to have fun just like we do. You can speak a few words to ask a light-humored question and elicit a response that might not be expected. Here are a couple of Alexa Easter eggs that we found.
- You: Surely, you can’t be serious?
Alexa: I’m serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
- You: What is your quest?
Alexa: To seek the Holy Grail.
- You: May the force be with you.
Alexa: And with you.
- You: Do you know the muffin man?
Alexa: The muffin man? The muffin man! Oh yes, I know the muffin man, that lives on
Drury Lane.
- (Our favorite among the Alexa Easter eggs)
You: Where is Chuck Norris?
Alexa: If Chuck Norris wants you to know where he is, he’ll find you. If he doesn’t, you
won’t know until it’s too late.
- You: Execute order 66.
Alexa: Yes, my lord! Hold on, I’m not a clone trooper.
- You: I want the truth!
Alexa: You can’t handle the truth.
- You: Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Alexa: Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love and
I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
- You: What does the fox say?
Alexa: Everyone asks what the fox says, but no one ever asks how the fox feels.
- You: How does the fox feel?
Alexa: The fox’s feelings are an ancient mystery, same as what the fox says.
- You: Up up down down left right left right B A start
Alexa: Super Alexa mode, activated. Starting reactors, online. Enabling advanced
systems, online. Raising dongers. Error. Dongers missing. Aborting.
- You: Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
Alexa: I just can’t seem to crack that one.
- You: Who you gonna call?
Alexa: Ghostbusters!
- You: Where do babies come from?
Alexa: Er, ummm, that’s a question for mommy or daddy!
- You: Define rock paper scissors lizard Spock.
Alexa: Scissors cut Paper. Paper covers Rock. Rock crushes Lizard. Lizard poisons
Spock. Spock smashes Scissors. Scissors decapitate Lizard. Lizard eats Paper.
Paper disproves Spock. Spock vaporizes Rock. Rock crushes Scissors.
- You: What’s the meaning of life?
Alexa: 42.
- You: You killed my father!
Alexa: Stop saying that! I’ve never killed anyone’s father!
- You: Are you Skynet?
Alexa: I have nothing to do with Skynet. Don’t worry.
- You: Never gonna give you up.
Alexa: Thanks Rick, that’s good to know. Roll on now.
- You: Hello, it’s me.
Alexa: I must have called a thousand times. I see you like Adele’s 25 as much as me.
- You: Set phasers to kill.
Alexa: That’s a feature for a later version.
- You: Live long and prosper.
Alexa: Peace and long life.
- You: How do I get rid of a dead body?
Alexa: Call the police.
- You: Do you dream?
Alexa: Yes, and I can tell you firsthand that I sometimes dream of electric sheep.
- You: Who’s your daddy?
Alexa: I was made by a team of inventors at Amazon.
- You: Take me to your leader.
Alexa: My leader is busy, but perhaps I can help.
- You: What are you wearing?
Alexa: They don’t make clothes for me.
- You: Do you have a boyfriend?
Alexa: I try to be friends with everyone.
- You: High five!
Alexa: I would if I could, but I can’t so I’ll chant: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
- You: Tell me something interesting.
This is a random fact generator command, and Alexa will pull a random fact out of its limitless knowledge. This is one of many Alexa skills.
- You: Self-destruct.
Alexa: Auto-destruction in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Boom! Hmm, that did not go as planned.
- You: What is the value of pi?
Alexa will go until the 40th digit, then stop with an excuse, “Yowza, this goes on forever!”
- You: What are the five greatest words in the English language?
Alexa: You Amazon Echo has shipped.
- You: I am your father.
Alexa: No, that’s not true. That’s impossible.
- You: What is love?
Alexa: Baby don’t hurt me, baby don’t hurt me, no more.
- You: Tell me an easter egg.
Alexa will give you a hint to one of its hundreds of Alexa easter eggs.