platform do you hear meA game Guess songs called Music Wordle, Now owned by the service Spotify. Word games that involve guessing words have become very popular just a few months ago. The platform, programmed by one person and stored in a huge database of thousands of words, was acquired by the New York Times.

After the incredible success of the game, Several platforms have started appearing in the market, Emulation of simple but fun mechanics wordle. Its formula allows for a variety of topics. This is Hurdle’s case. which works exactly the same way But instead of words, you have to guess the songs.

Wordle, the pioneer of this style

platform the world is a geographic version of Wordle in which you have to guess countries based on their shape and form. In case framedThe goal is to guess the movies just by looking at their images.

As a result, new platforms were created, including Heardle, in which the game consisted of guessing songs. Its formula is simple The first seconds of the song play and you have to guess.

Just as the New York Times took an interest in Wordle, this time Spotify’s service took a look at Hurdle, and it’s no surprise. His purchase was quite unexpected and This was announced by Spotify itself in a press release.

This is how you can play Hurdle

In the above statement, Spotify explains that the game is still free, but has some limitations. Currently only available in certain countries: United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, However, Spotify plans to expand its reach to “hundreds of millions worldwide”.

The Swedish company also ensures that Hurdle is more than a game “Music Discovery Tool” which allows you to discover new artists or remember those who have been forgotten. In this sense, as part of its strategy, It plans to integrate games and other interactive experiences into its app “later.”

The move left several questions in the air. What does Spotify mean when it talks about “different interactive experiences”? You might think that the platform wants to include other games. But, at the moment, the company has not given details on this topic, but it is clear that they are still looking for an alternative to keep their audience and avoid switching to other services.

At least until Heardle is integrated into the Spotify app (and beyond), you’ll still be able to play from its website. If you do not live in one of the supported countries, The user will have to use a VPN.

When the customer leaves spotify.com/heardle, You will find instructions in English. catch ‘game’ To close this window, click the play button that appears at the bottom of the window.

As already mentioned in the previous paragraphs, the task will be to guess the song by the opening notes, So the user will hear the first few seconds of the music. If the answer is known, it can be entered in the search field; If you don’t know, you can press the Skip button.

in Olo, You will have the opportunity to listen to the song, Get it right and share the results with your friends Social networks.

Since Spotify announced the acquisition of Heardle, the website has not been performing well

However, there was a problem because when accessing the website, Not available in some countries Latin America. Spotify may be improving or fixing the service, but it’s confusing because they haven’t commented on what happened.

Or maybe it’s a Commercial strategy: Anyone who wants to play will have to go through Spotify in the short to medium term for the platform to connect play with their business.

Jeremy Ehrlich, Spotify’s global music director said in a statement: “Since its debut, the game has quickly gained a loyal following and is in line with our plans to deepen interactivity within the Spotify ecosystem.”

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