Heardle

OK, let’s be honest, this has barely anything to do with Wordle. Heardle is a game about recognizing a song from its intro, in as few seconds as you can.

Created by a group of friends, and then suddenly finding viral fame to millions of players, this uses the aesthetics and once-a-day principles of Wordle, but that’s about it. Yet it’s fantastic, and fits right in.

At the start, you’re given one second of a song’s intro to recognize it by. If you think you know it, you can type in its name or artist into a text box, and then pick it out from the list of hundreds of possible answers. Submit it to find out if you’re right or not. Get it wrong, and the game adds another second of audio.

You can also skip if you just don’t know, with a second wrong answer adding another two seconds, then three, four, and so on. You have six guesses, and if you get it right, you can listen to the first 30 seconds of the track to celebrate. (30 seconds, of course, because that’s what you can get away with without having to pay royalties.)

It’s very satisfying, capturing that ancient Name That Tune vibe in a very modern way.