  Amazon's Alexa is now widely available and shows interesting potential as a
platform for hosting CALL games aimed at children. In this paper, we describe
an initial informal experiment where we created some simple CALL games and made
them available to a few child testers. We report the children's and parents'
reactions. Our overall conclusion is that, although Alexa has many positive
features, there are still fundamental platform issues in the current version
that make it very difficult to build compelling CALL games for children. The
games used will soon be freely available for download on the Alexa store.
