Spotify buys music trivia game 'Heardle'

Heardle interface now shows the Spotify logo on the top left

Spotify recently acquired Heardle, a themed trivia game that came out in the wake of Wordle's massive popularity and success. Heardle is Spotify's first game acquisition. The streaming service hopes to use Heardle to keep music fans engaged and act as a music discovery tool. It'll remain a standalone website for now. Spotify has started integration in a few countries, including Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. But there are plans to bring it more with other language support soon. It also intends to integrate Heardle "more fully" into the app, but Spotify hasn't mentioned how or when that will happen. Spotify hasn't revealed how much it paid for the game, which it says has millions of players now.

Heardle works similarly to Wordle. You have to guess a song being played within six tries. It'll play you a few seconds of the opening notes, with the length increasing after asking for a hint. When the answer gets revealed or guessed at the end, it will now link to the song on Spotify (it used to link to SoundCloud).

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Heardle is the Wordle for pop songs

Source: Heardle

If you pride yourself on your knowledge of pop music and love the Wordle format, you might want to try out Heardle. The game will give you six tries to guess a pop song from the "list of the most streamed songs in the past decade." You are given extended song snippets to figure out what it is, which you'll need to hit skip to hear more. And it gets that similar sharing feature of Wordle, so you can brag about your pop music knowledge on social media. Heardle pulls its songs from Soundcloud, so they shouldn't, as The Verge put it, "get DMCA'd off the internet" for using pop song clips.