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Alexa Super Mode: Unlocking the Hidden Easter Egg

Amazon built a small, purely-for-fun Easter egg into Alexa that reacts to the classic “Konami Code” — the famous cheat code sequence from Contra and other retro games. How to Trigger It Say to any Alexa-enabled device: "Alexa, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start" Alexa responds with a playful, game-themed […]

By Andrew Armstrong • 2 min read

Amazon built a small, purely-for-fun Easter egg into Alexa that reacts to the classic “Konami Code” — the famous cheat code sequence from Contra and other retro games.

How to Trigger It

Say to any Alexa-enabled device:

"Alexa, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start"

Alexa responds with a playful, game-themed reply referencing “Super Alexa Mode” rather than actually changing any device settings or unlocking hidden functionality — it’s an Easter egg, not a real feature, so don’t expect anything to actually change on your device afterward.

Other Alexa Easter Eggs Worth Trying

Amazon has scattered a number of similar novelty responses into Alexa over the years — asking her to “open the pod bay doors” (a nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey) or “tell me a joke” are worth trying if you enjoy this kind of thing. None of them do anything functional; they’re just a bit of personality Amazon built into the assistant.

Still Working in 2026?

This particular Easter egg has been documented for years and Alexa’s novelty responses tend to be low-priority, rarely-touched code paths — Amazon has little reason to remove them. A couple of other Konami-Code-era favourites worth trying alongside it: “Alexa, give me an Easter egg” and “Alexa, can you pass the Turing test?” both still turn up in current lists of Alexa novelty commands. That said, Amazon doesn’t publish a changelog for these, so the honest answer is: it’s worth trying it yourself rather than taking any online list (including this one) as guaranteed current — if a specific phrase stops working, it was likely quietly retired in an Alexa software update rather than ever having had an official announcement.

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Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong is a UK-based IT professional with 26+ years of hands-on experience in Windows, Windows Server, SCCM/ConfigMgr, Active Directory, PowerShell, and enterprise infrastructure.

He founded TechyGeeksHome in 2010 and has published over 1,500 practical guides covering real-world IT problems and solutions. When not solving IT problems,

Andrew develops free Windows utilities including Ultimate Settings Panel, which has been downloaded over 850,000 times.

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