Heardle, a music trivia recreation following the , has a brand new proprietor. Spotify has it is shopping for the sport. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. As notes, Heardle is Spotify’s first recreation acquisition.

Heardle is a simple recreation of title that tune. Players are given six makes an attempt to guess a well-liked music. They hear one second of the intro at first. Heardle lets them hear a little bit extra after every incorrect guess (they will additionally skip turns). There’s just one music every day for everybody to guess.

Whether or not you accurately establish the music, you’ll be able to click on by way of to listen to the total monitor after ending a spherical. That caught the eye of , which is pegging Heardle as a music discovery software. Until now, the sport has been utilizing music hosted on Soundcloud.

“We are always looking for innovative and playful ways to enhance music discovery and help artists reach new fans,” Spotify’s international head of music Jeremy Erlich mentioned. “Heardle has proven to be a really fun way to connect millions of fans with songs they know and love and with new songs… and a way to compete with their friends as to who has the best musical knowledge. Since its debut, the game has quickly built a loyal following, and it aligns with our plans to deepen interactivity across the Spotify ecosystem.”

As The New York Times did with Wordle after , Spotify says it’ll maintain Heardle free to play for everybody and retain the prevailing feel and look. The font Heardle makes use of has been up to date to align with Spotify’s branding, nevertheless.

The integration between Heardle and Spotify has already began within the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Players in these international locations can hear to every day’s music on Spotify as a substitute of Soundcloud. The recreation is now too. Players who need to keep their stats might want to visit the old site to switch them over.

Spotify says gamers in different international locations will quickly be capable of play Heardle in different languages. It plans to finally “integrate Heardle and other interactive experiences more fully into Spotify to allow music lovers to connect more deeply with artists and challenge friends.”

However, the transition would not appear to be going fully easily. Some gamers have they Heardle of their location. Conversely, some say they will now as Soundcloud is not out there the place they’re.