Alice, let's play: a review of games with the Yandex voice assistant Alice's voice assistant from Yandex has gained popularity among Android and iOS smartphone users. main feature

Alice, let's play: a review of games with the Yandex voice assistant

The Alice voice assistant from Yandex has gained popularity among Android and iOS smartphone users. The main feature of the Russian companion is the most lively and direct communication with the user. And one of the aspects of interaction with Alice is games.

What is Alice from Yandex

Alice is a voice assistant from Yandex, which can perform a lot of useful functions:

• lay out a route
• tell the news
• manage smart home appliances,
• turn on music and radio (using the Yandex.Music service),
• create a to-do list in the Yandex cloud service,
• tell the weather forecast
• just talk to the user (code phrase: Alice, let's chat),
• tell stories, anecdotes, jokes and toasts,
• recommend movies,
• find the right places and events nearby and much more.

If you suddenly forgot what Alice can do, just ask her about it – she will be happy to tell you

Alice let's play

Some of Alice's features (such as toasting, revealing bloggers' secrets, and fairy tales) work in separate scenarios. When pronouncing the passphrase, Alice launches them in a separate tab, where a special script starts to work. Games are one such scenario. To start them, you need to say: Alice, let's play. The voice assistant will immediately offer several games that you can play with it.

Alice has more than a dozen different games in stock

When starting the game, Alice informs us that she is transferring us to a separate scenario, and opens a tab.

You can return to the game from the main dialog by touching the Start button

Faster, higher, stronger

The game is based on the Olympic slogan, but, despite its name, does not always use a sports theme. The bottom line is this: Alice brings two objects (metals, things, celebrities, and so on) and invites you to compare them on one basis (growth, cost, gravity). Your task is to guess which of them is “faster, higher, stronger”.

After the answer, Alice suggests more accurate data about the comparison of game objects

Guess the song

“Alice, let's play Guess the Song” launches a script in which the voice assistant will guess the song by a line from it. Your task is to dictate to Alice a quote from a Russian-language song. The assistant tries to guess it and pick up the text. Alice immediately also indicates the name of the song, artist and gives a link to the work on Yandex.Music.

Apparently, the voice assistant can only guess the songs that are on Yandex.Music with lyrics

Don't confuse the script triggered by the phrase Alice, let's play Guess the Song with the music detection function triggered by the phrase Guess the song. In the latter case, Alice will not play, but will listen to her surroundings to determine the music that is playing, like the Shazam application.

If you forget the code phrase Alice, let's play, then the voice assistant turns on the microphone and tries to identify the music playing

Find the extra

Find the Extra is a fairly simple children's game where the user has to identify an extra item out of four or five named. For the most part, Alice names representatives of some large category (for example, berries), adding one object from a close group (for example, fruit) to them. The game is great for preschoolers and elementary students, but older audiences may find it boring and overly simple.

After the answer, Alice talks about the differences between the extra object and the rest of the group.

Guess the Actor

This time, the player will have to guess the famous actor using the clues given by the voice assistant. Alice can prompt five times, after which (if you do not name the correct answer) the round will end, and the voice assistant will guess the next actor. Tips usually contain a description of the famous roles of this actor, his marital status, nationality.

Thanks to this game, you can learn a lot about your favorite actors, as well as find interesting films to watch.

find the words

Find Words is an interesting game for all ages. Here, the user and Alice alternately think of long words, and then they make up smaller ones from their letters. If you have any difficulties, you can either change the word made by the assistant, or ask for a hint.

Find words trains attention and the ability to think outside the box, find hidden words

I believe – I do not believe

In the game I believe – I do not believe the user needs to guess whether Alice is telling the truth or lying. The voice assistant names any fact or myth. You can say I believe or I don't believe. After your answer, the assistant will tell you a little more about the fact mentioned above. The game is great for children of primary and secondary school age, but it will also be interesting for older people.

This game helps to learn new interesting facts and will surely appeal to inquisitive players of any age.

Cities

The game of Cities is a complete analogue of the verbal battle familiar to us. The player and Alice alternately name the cities of any country whose names begin with the last letter of the previous named city. The voice assistant prompts the user to start a conversation. As in the normal game, the letters Ы, b and b do not count. If the player is having difficulty, he can ask Alice for a hint.

Alice prefers to name Russian cities, but the user can use names from any country

Zoology

Zoology is a very simple game suitable for preschoolers. In it, the voice assistant asks simple questions about the animal world. The player's task is simple – to answer them correctly. Alice offers a choice of two answers. There is no hint in this game.

In Zoology, Alice asks very simple questions that a small child can handle.

What used to be

What came first is a game in which the user has to guess which item was invented first. Alice offers two objects to be compared. After your answer, she will tell you the exact years of invention of the selected items. The game is complicated by the fact that often the assistant chooses items that belong to completely different areas (for example, canned food and batteries). Try to answer without the help of search engines!

The game is difficult enough to interest an adult audience

This day in history

This Day in History is not so much a game as Alice's cognitive function. If you run this skill, the assistant will talk about significant events that happened on the same calendar day in past years. The user has the opportunity to select another day, it is enough to say: “Another date” and name the date of interest. Alice has an almost inexhaustible supply of facts about each of the 365 days of the year.

Thanks to the game, you can stock up on a lot of interesting facts and impress the history teacher with them in the classroom

Guess the animal

It would seem that a simple game – you need to recognize the beast by recording the sounds it makes. However, the set of animals is not the most trivial, and the growl may indicate not a lion, but a tiger, leopard or lynx. So the game Guess the animal is suitable not only for the smallest, but also for adult users.

If you ask Alice to repeat the sound, do it with her voice, not by typing a command on the keyboard. Otherwise, it won't play audio for you.

Alice gives an infinite number of attempts to guess

Divination games

Alice is skeptical about fortune-telling, but she has several games in stock that will allow her to predict fate for the next couple of days or answer exciting questions.

The voice assistant emphasizes that fortune-telling is not the best way to make decisions

Orb of fate

Alice's fate ball is similar to its usual prototype. The user asks an unambiguous question (which can be answered either “yes” or “no”), and the voice assistant makes a prediction. It is best to ask the ball of fate questions like “should I …” so that the answer is logical and understandable.

Alice will not forget to indicate her attitude to fortune-telling

Divination by books

The team Alice, let's tell fortunes causes fortune-telling from books. The voice assistant has two books to choose from: Master and Margarita by Bulgakov and Aphorisms. You can choose any. Then ask a question (not necessarily unambiguous), name the page and line.Alice will read you a prediction.

Alice usually claims that he does not know how to interpret the received prediction

Wise teacher

Another “fortunetelling” game from Alice is a “wise teacher”. To launch it, say: Alice, let's talk with a wise teacher. The voice assistant will include atmospheric music and report that we found an ancient sage who can answer questions. You can ask him anything, but the program offers the following examples: “What should I do with my life?”, “What is better – capitalism or communism?”, “Draw my future.” The “wise teacher” will issue foggy sayings in response, which can be interpreted as if you like.

Perhaps the words of a wise teacher are an interpretation of the statements of the actually existing philosophers and sages

Fantastic quest

“Fantastic quest” is a one -time game, that is, after its complete passage, you will no longer be interesting to repeat it again. However, it is quite long, complete passage can take more than an hour without hints.

The plot of the game is the salvation of the astronaut, whose role you try on yourself. Alice, like a real gamer, describes you the environment. Your task is to dictate her actions. They can be completely any, you are usually not limited by several options.

The game about the astronaut from Alice will please the fans of the old -school text quests and those who know nothing about this genre.

Cosmic quest is perhaps the most interesting game from Alice

Passing Fantastic quest

You will receive the most pleasure from passing a “fantastic quest” if you deal with it yourself. Completing it in full and detailed instructions is quite boring. However, if you are stalled at any moment, you can turn to this passage:

Click on the orange button to continue passing the quest

Having examined the sarcophagus, we will get tips for further actions

We have no descriptions of the corridors, so you can only think of this step by the poke method

Photos hanging on the walls are of great value for the player

Having studied the table, we will advance the plot of the quest a little further

We want to drink, and there is a cup on the table – this is clearly not a simple coincidence

Maybe now it will be possible to quench the thirst

Do not go to explore the unknown territory with a tin mug in the hands

I wonder what is stored upstairs

Judging by the description, outside the window there should be an amazing look

Alice reminds us that the main goal is to remember who we are and how we got here

As we recall, there are only three chairs in the wheelhouse

Now we moved to the captain's chair

Incomprehensible toggle switches will not be able to click

There is one unprofitable chair left

Alice claims that this chair is also clearly not our

Every time you do not know what you can do, say: look around

Using a computer, we will find out a lot of information

Find out why we went on a trip

This time, Alice herself tells us what is best to do.

Suddenly the computer will tell you our name or position

The computer can't tell us anything useful anymore.

Let's go to the corridor through the door

We ended up in the corridor where the suspended animation chambers are stored.

At the beginning of the game, we got out of another sarcophagus

This time we are at the doors with the red button

Let's see what's in the closet

Since we're aboard a spaceship, putting on a spacesuit isn't such a bad idea.

From the closet we took everything we need

Alice does not forget to remind us about the included alarm

We are close to completing the quest

It is necessary to repeat verbatim: “I give legal consent”, the game will not respond to a different wording

The main intrigue of the quest is unraveled

We take a decisive step into the mysterious portal to complete the quest

We have completed the quest

Playing with Alice is a great way to pass the time. The voice assistant has entertainment for adults and children, educational and just entertaining, even fortune-telling and text quests.