Puzzle game Wordle is great for testing your vocabulary. But if you’d like to flex your music knowledge instead, consider checking out Heardle, a pop music-focused guessing game.
Heardle.app takes the Wordle concept and applies it to audio, giving you six guesses to name a randomly selected tune each day. On the first guess, Heardle will only play a one-second snippet of the song’s intro. After each failed or skipped guess, the game will play a slightly longer snippet of song’s intro, giving you a better chance to name that tune. If you manage to guess a song on the first try, you’re clearly a pro.
If it takes you several tries to make a successful guess, prepare to feel embarrassed, like we did. On Monday, PCMag couldn’t name the song until the sixth try, when the original one-second snippet was prolonged to 16 seconds after our failed guesses.
Heardle pulls a random tune from a list of artists on Soundcloud. The app is designed to currently drop one new puzzle each day, and users can share their Heardle score on social media, of course.
It’s not entirely clear who developed Heardle, but the game’s makers say it’s already amassed a huge following online. “Heardle was made for a small group of friends. Then we somehow gained millions of players overnight,” says the official Twitter account for the game.
Heardle is free, but the developers are asking for donations on Ko-fi.com
