{"id":72150,"date":"2019-10-24T03:06:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/hey-robot-is-a-party-game-that-tests-how-smart-alexa-is\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T03:06:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:06:01","slug":"hey-robot-is-a-party-game-that-tests-how-smart-alexa-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/hey-robot-is-a-party-game-that-tests-how-smart-alexa-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Robot is a party game that tests how smart Alexa is"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes, it can feel impossible to get what you want from a smart assistant. That problem is the premise of a new board game called Hey Robot<\/a>, which tasks players with getting Alexa or another digital assistant to say a specific word before their opponents can.<\/p>\n

The gameplay works much like Taboo: players are given a selection of words, and they have to figure out what they can ask a smart assistant that will get it to recite the word without saying any form of the word in their question.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe game works because the devices don\u2019t work that great,\u201d says Frank Lantz, one of the game\u2019s creators. \u201cIt\u2019s very funny. You think, \u2018Oh this is going to be easy. How hard can this be?\u2019 But that\u2019s the thing. It actually can be very challenging, and…<\/p>\n

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Photo: Everybody House Games Sometimes, it can feel impossible to get what you want from a smart assistant. That problem is the premise of a new board game called Hey Robot, which tasks players with getting Alexa or another digital assistant to say a specific word before their opponents can. The gameplay works much like… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t