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		</div><p>Heardle, the name-that-tune game inspired by the Wordle craze, is being dropped by Spotify less than a year after the music streaming giant acquired it.</p>
<p>“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to say goodbye to Heardle,” Spotify said in a statement.</p>
<p>A similar announcement was posted on the Heardle home page.</p>
<p>First appearing in February 2022 amid a surge of games that used the format of Wordle, which The New York Times bought in January of that year, Heardle plays fleeting moments of a song and challenges users to see how quickly they can guess it.</p>
<p>Saturday’s mystery song was 1998’s Why Don’t You Get A Job by The Offspring.</p>
<p>After Spotify bought Heardle in July, users could go from revealing the song to playing it on the app.</p>
<p>That sort of music discovery, or rediscovery, was Spotify’s intention in acquiring the game from its creators, according to the blog post announcing the acquisition.</p>
<p>But the statement on the game’s end said Spotify plans to “focus our efforts on other features for music discovery”.</p>
<p>The company did not give further details on why it was ending the game, and it is not clear whether Heardle may continue life elsewhere.</p>
<p>Spotify did not identify the apparently publicity-shy creator and seller when it announced the purchase.</p>
<p>Variety identified the man as a “London-based web and app designer” in a May 2020 interview, but he declined to be identified further.</p>
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