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“Thanks for enjoying Heardle, however sadly we’ve to say goodbye,” the message reads. “From Might fifth, Heardle will now not be out there.”

Regardless of taking inspiration from Wordle — the phrase guessing recreation that took the web by storm — Heardle continues to be fairly distinctive, serving as a enjoyable option to put your music data to the take a look at. The sport offers you six tries to guess the title of a music as you take heed to progressively longer snippets of the observe.

For those who don’t know the title proper off the bat, you possibly can proceed listening till you possibly can determine it. The earlier you’re in a position to guess the music, the higher your rating. When you guess the music (or hand over), Heardle offers you a hyperlink to take heed to the observe on Spotify.

“After cautious consideration, we’ve made the tough determination to say goodbye to Heardle as we focus our efforts on different options for music discovery,” Spotify spokesperson Gray Munford mentioned in an emailed assertion to The Verge.

Spotify says you’ve got till Might 4th to screenshot your stats if you wish to hold them as a reminiscence of the short-lived recreation. When Spotify acquired Heardle final yr, it mentioned the sport had tens of millions of gamers — however maybe fewer customers are enjoying the sport now that the hype surrounding The New York Instances-owned Wordle has died off a bit.

Possibly its shutdown can also be associated to the truth that Spotify by no means built-in Heardle into its app. If Heardle was out there at customers’ fingertips as an alternative of on a standalone web site, possibly it could’ve continued to stay on.