Spotify is giving up Heardle less than a year after it was bought

The message reads “Thank you for playing Heardle, but unfortunately we have to say goodbye”. “As of May 5th, Heardle will no longer be available.”

Although taking inspiration from Wardle The word guessing game that took the internet by storm hurdle It’s still pretty unique, and serves as a fun way to put your knowledge of music to the test. The game gives you six attempts to guess the name of a song while listening to progressively longer snippets of the track.

If you don’t know the name right away, you can keep listening until you can identify it. The earlier you can guess the song, the better your score. Once you guess the song (or give up), hurdle It gives you a link to listen to the track on Spotify.

Spotify spokesperson Gray Munford said in an emailed statement to the edge.

Spotify says you have until May 4th to photograph your stats if you want to keep them as a memory of the short-lived game. When you got Spotify hurdle Last year, it said the game had millions of players – but perhaps fewer users are playing the game now with the hype surrounding it New York times-owned Wardle died a little.

Turning it off is probably also related to the fact that Spotify was never integrated hurdle in applying it. if hurdle If it was more accessible to users than a standalone website, it probably would have lived on.