Imagine a situation. I have a simple game, which uses states. One state is initial, another one is game state and the last one is the end game state.

I have x amount of intents which are: launch, answer, pass a question, players amount, stop, yes and no intents. I know that these are not all of the required intents, but I want to keep this example short.

Lets say player launches the game. At this state I want user to say how many players he wants to play with. But because game answer intent has a lot of answers in the slot, alexa gets confused and starts matching this intent instead of players intent, which has numbers slot. In this case I have to handle all of the intents, though they might not make sense in the given context. This does not only make coding harder, because you have to cover all of the cases, but also hurts the recognition, because alexa has to determine what was said, between all of the intents.

What would I like is to be able to turn off certain intents at certain stages/states of the game. Lets say on launch I would like, that alexa on user input would be choosing between: stop and players intent. In game state, alexa would be choosing, between: answer intent, pass question and stop intent. And in game end state, alexa would be choosing from stop, yes and no intents.

I think this would help the recognition, because alexa would only have to choose from intents that are used at the certain stage of the skill, instead of choosing from all of the available.

Also it would be easier to code complex skills, because you wouldn't need to handle every intent at the every stage of the game.