Spotify buys music-based Wordle clone \u2018Heardle\u2019 SpotifyPopular music streaming platform Spotify revealed that they have purchased Heardle, a wordle clone that has players guess the song. In early January 2022, Wordle began taking over social media timelines as players shared their attempts to guess the \u201cword of the day.\u201d Less than a month later, the game was purchased by The New York Times for over a million dollars. Since then, dozens of clones have popped up. One of those games is Heardle, a clone that has users guess a song based on a short clip, and its met the same fate as Wordle as the game has been acquired by Spotify. Spotify purchases Heardle Revealed on July 12 in a Spotify blog post, the popular music streaming platform explained that they are set to acquire Heardle. Heardle gives players the task to guess a song based on its opening notes. They\u2019re given six guesses, and every guess gives the player a few more seconds to help them form their answer. The song eventually gets fully revealed, whether there\u2019s a successful guess or not. \u201cPassion for music runs deep\u2014and so does showing off those skills in musical trivia. Millions do just that with Heardle, a daily music game,\u201d the company explained. \u201cAnd at Spotify, we love all things music\u2014and all things music trivia\u2014which is why we\u2019re excited to announce that the beloved interactive music trivia game will be joining Spotify.\u201d Existing fans of the game don\u2019t need to fret, as Spotify also mentioned in the blog that the look and feel of the game will remain the same \u2014 much like the transition Wordle went through after its NYT purchase. However, the company has already begun to deploy improvements to the game. Players will be able to listen to the full song of the day on Spotify as soon as they finish the game \u2014 and they promise more features to come \u201cdown the road.\u201d Users in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand will be able to access these new features immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spotify buys music-based Wordle clone \u2018Heardle\u2019 SpotifyPopular music streaming platform Spotify revealed that they have purchased Heardle, a wordle clone that has players guess the song. In early January 2022, Wordle began taking over social media timelines as players shared their attempts to guess the \u201cword of the day.\u201d Less than a month later, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}