Have You Heard? Heardle is like Wordle but for Pop Music

If you’ve finished your Wordle for the day, and even your Worldle, and while you’re at it, your Octordle,and still have a thirst for for more Wordle-alikes.  If you always knew you’d be a master at “Name That Tune,” then buckle up, because the Heardle.app is for you!

Heardle is a guessing game where you’re given progressively longer snippets of a pop song and get six tries to figure out what it is. It’s a fun twist on the Wordle format, especially for those of us who are significantly more interested in music than words.

An interesting twist with Heardle is that it gives you a “skip” button. Mechanically, it makes sense — with Wordle, you’re only going to get closer to the answer by guessing a word and seeing what letters are or aren’t in the correct answer. But when you’re guessing a song, hearing a new snippet will give you more information regardless of whether you’ve made a guess.

Heardle also has a similar sharing feature that lets you copy a series of emoji to your clipboard so you can tell people how quickly you guessed the song, because bragging about your musical genius is part of the fun, right?

Heardle’s about screen says that it pulls songs from “a list of the most streamed songs in the past decade,” which hopefully means you won’t be stuck trying to identify some random song that only 1,000 people have heard. That also makes it a lot easier to guess, because once you realize the answer is a pop song, it narrows the playing field quite a bit.

The about screen also says that Heardle is pulling the songs from Soundcloud, which is good to hear — while Wordle has all its answers stored in a text file, doing something like that with clips of pop songs is a good way for the app to find itself in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and then where will you go to get your Heardle fix?

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