Brilliant Alexa Easter eggs: Best things to ask your Amazon Echo

Don’t be fooled by Alexa’s serious demeanor; Amazon’s voice assistant has a funny side, and the Echo is packed with hundreds of hidden features and funny things to ask Alexa.

Yes, Alexa is a weather-relaying, music-playing, question-answering robot on the surface, but, if you ask the right questions, its true colors show. Whether you have an Echo Dot, an Echo Show or a third-party Alexa smart speaker, you can become an Alexa Easter egg hunter.

If you want to see just how much of a TV-addicted, music-loving, culturally aware movie buff Alexa is, just try asking it this lot.

Some of the answers are sure to plaster a huge grin across your face.

And let’s start right here with the first one to try. Ask, “Alexa, give me an Easter Egg” to get ideas straight from the robot’s mouth.

Alexa Easter eggs: Dad Jokes

If you’ve ever asked your Echo to tell you a joke, you’ll know that Alexa’s sense of humor is, well, less than impressive. It’s got the quips of a box of Christmas crackers and a dead-pan delivery that, well, leaves something to be desired.

Some of its jokes, and witty answers to seemingly straight questions, however, can’t help but raise a smile.

• Alexa, are you blue?
• Alexa, will you be my girlfriend?
• Alexa, knock, knock
• Alexa, why did the chicken cross the road?
• Alexa, how are babies made?
• Alexa, why is six afraid of seven?
• Alexa, is there a Santa?
• Alexa, Marco!
• Alexa, how do I get rid of a dead body?
• Alexa, who is the fairest of them all?
• Alexa, is your refrigerator running?

Alexa Easter eggs: Movies

Whether you’re into action films or comedies, rom-coms or horrors, Alexa’s filled with geeky trivia and obscure references that’ll make you smile and challenge your own knowledge of all things silver screen.

These are our favorite movie-based Amazon Echo easter eggs. Try saying these to Alexa:

• Alexa, party on, Wayne
• Alexa, who you gonna call?
• Alexa, show me the money!
• Alexa, surely you can’t be serious?
• Alexa, my name is Inigo Montoya.
• Alexa, you talkin’ to me?
• Alexa, I am your father
• Alexa, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for
• Alexa, I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe
• Alexa, what is your quest?
• Alexa, may the force be with you.
• Alexa, do want to build a snowman?
• Alexa, open the pod bay doors
• Alexa, do you know the muffin man?
• Alexa, I want the truth
• Alexa, are you Sky Net?
• Alexa, party time!
• Alexa, what’s the first rule of Fight Club?
• Alexa, what’s the second rule of Fight Club?
• Alexa, supercalifragilisticexpialodocious
• Alexa, are we in the Matrix?
• Alexa, may the force be with you
• Alexa, which comes first: the chicken or the egg?
• Alexa, open the pod bay doors
• Alexa, witness me
• Alexa, surely you can’t be serious
• Alexa, what happens if you cross the streams?
• Alexa, I’ll be back
• Alexa, inconceivable
• Alexa, I’ve fallen and can’t get up
• Alexa, what is best in life?
• Alexa, do you know Hal?
• Alexa, what would Robin say?
• Alexa, E.T. phone home

How to make Alexa swear

It’s tricky to make Alexa swear. If you ask the digital assistant to swear you’ll get a soft response, such as “knickers”.

You can, however, make Alexa swear by naming a timer a naughty word, although it will respond with the word bleeped. It’s quite funny, though.

There are other ways to make Alexa swear (with beeps)…

• Make an announcement through the Alexa app and type swear words as part of the announcement
• Create a routine that includes an Alexa phrase that includes a swear word

Alexa Easter eggs: TV Shows

It’s not just the big screen that Alexa nerds out over, its TV knowledge is unrivaled too. From iconic comedies such as Monty Python to more current classics like Kenan and Kel and The Big Bang Theory, it’s just a couple of references away from being a true cosplay conventioneer.

• Alexa, who loves orange soda?
• Alexa, beam me up
• Alexa, Winter is coming
• Alexa, who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
• Alexa, play rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock
• Alexa, who shot Mr. Burns?
• Alexa, who loves ya baby?
• Alexa, set phasers to kill
• Alexa, your mother was a hamster
• Alexa, who shot first?
• Alexa, who is the best lord?
• Alexa, give me an Alan Partridge TV pitch
• Alexa, tea, Earl Grey, hot
• Alexa, live long and prosper

Alexa Easter eggs: Music

It’s time to step away from the screen. It turns out that Alexa’s a bit of a music buff too. Give it the right cues, and it’ll drop knowledge bombs on you across a range of genres from 60’s rock and 90s rap to modern pop ballads. Heck, Alexa will even Rick Roll your mates if you ask it nicely because it’s never gonna give you up.

• Alexa, what is your name?
• Alexa, I shot a man in Reno
• Alexa, what does the fox say?
• Alexa, who let the dogs out?
• Alexa, play that funky music white boy.
• Alexa, have you ever seen the rain?
• Alexa, hello, it’s me!
• Alexa, who is the Walrus?
• Alexa, what is war good for?
• Alexa, what’s the loneliest number?
• Alexa, how many roads must a man walk down?
• Alexa, how much is that doggie in the window?
• Alexa, do you really want to hurt me?
• Alexa, what is love?
• Alexa, more cowbell
• Alexa, never gonna give you up
• Alexa, who is the real Slim Shady?
• Alexa, I like big butts
• Alexa, my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
• Alexa, Daisy Daisy
• Alexa, twinkle twinkle little star
• Alexa, is this the real life?
• Alexa, do you know the muffin man?
• Alexa, I’ve got 99 problems
• Alexa, sing a silly song
• Alexa, are you feeling funky/beatbox for me?
• Alexa, tell me what you want what you really really want
• Alexa, drop a beat

The Premier League, and other British soccer leagues, are huge around the world, and one of Alexa’s latest tricks acknowledges that supremacy. It can now give you chants from a range of big teams, and also dish out some spicy (mild) insults for their rivals, too.

The full list of teams that are supported is pretty extensive and includes every team in the Premier League, for starters.

To get Alexa singing or insulting, or just to get some useful data, use the following commands:

• Alexa, sing me a chant about [team]
• Alexa, give me an insult about [team]
• Alexa, how many goals has Mo Salah scored this season?
• Alexa, who is top of the Premier League?

Alexa Easter eggs: Gaming & geek culture

For such a geek Alexa’s gaming-based easter eggs are currently pretty limited. There are a few funny additions though, including a handy cheat code to up your Echo’s game.

• Alexa, what do you think about Google Now?
• Alexa, can you pass the Turing test?
• Alexa, is the cake a lie?
• Alexa, all your base are belong to us
• Alexa, what are the laws of robotics?
• Alexa, do you know Glados?
• Alexa, do a barrel roll
• Alexa, what Hogwarts house do you belong to?
• Alexa, what’s your favorite video game?

If you’re still after more, you can always enable “Super Alexa Mode”. Intrigued? Try the old Nintendo-style hidden Alexa cheat code and see what happens.

Instead of pressing physical buttons, you can do it all vocally, just say: “Alexa, up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start.”

Alexa Easter eggs: Cultural References

Just because it doesn’t get out much doesn’t mean Alexa doesn’t know how the world works. It knows its baby shark from its Shark Tank. Just see for yourself.

• Alexa, sing Baby Shark
• Alexa, where is Chuck Norris?
• Alexa, this is ground control to Major Tom
• Alexa, make me a sandwich
• Alexa, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
• Alexa, who’s your daddy?
• Alexa, when is the end of the world?
• Alexa, where’s Waldo?
• Alexa, who’s on first?
• Alexa, what color is the dress?
• Alexa, how do you solve a problem like Maria?

Alexa Easter eggs: Books and plays

It’s not just modern culture that Alexa’s on top of, it knows a bit about old-world entertainment, too. From classic kids books to busting out a bit of Shakespeare, it’s got a full library’s worth of knowledge wrapped up in the Echo cocoon.

• Alexa, what’s in a name?
• Alexa, who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
• Alexa, do you like green eggs and ham?
• Alexa, what’s the answer to life, the universe and everything?
• Alexa, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
• Alexa, to be or not to be

Alexa Easter eggs: Random fun

Plenty of Alexa’s responses don’t fit into an easy category, though – they’re just random, off-beat answers. So, we’ve collected a few of those left-field commands for you, below:

• Alexa, are you a nerd?
• Alexa, can you sing in auto-tune?
• Alexa, high five
• Alexa, what happens if you step on Lego?
• Alexa, take me to your leader
• Alexa, does this unit have a soul?
• Alexa, what do you want to be when you grow up?
• Alexa, testing 1-2-3
• Alexa, random fact
• Alexa, flip a coin
• Alexa, rap for me
• Alexa, tell me something interesting
• Alexa, are there UFOs?
• Alexa, what sound does a rabbit make?
• Alexa, pretend to be a chicken
• Alexa, what’s your favorite sandwich?
• Alexa, what’s your favorite drink?
• Alexa, do your ears hang low?
• Alexa, talk like a pirate
• Alexa, give me a blooper
• Alexa, give me a magic potion.
• Alexa, tell me some gossip
• Alexa, give me some words of wisdom
• Alexa, who’s your celebrity crush?
• Alexa, sing the alphabet
• Alexa, give me a scary fact
• Alexa, what’s the point of wasps?
• Alexa, tongue twister
• Alexa, do you believe in love at first sight?
• Alexa, recommend a prank