Daily music games
Daily music games play a short audio clip or show a lyric and ask you to name the song or artist, usually giving you more of the clip with each wrong guess.
7 music games, ranked by players
Linkzic
No. 1Hear four songs, match titles and artists
9.5k card appearancesLogic
Wordzic
No. 2Guess the song's secret word
127k card appearancesColors
TuneTwist
No. 3Familiar songs. Unfamiliar titles. Decode 5 song names rewritten with synonyms every day.
5.8k card appearancesMusic
Jamband Games
No. 4Daily lyric trivia for jam band fans. Name the song in 3 guesses.
1.9k card appearancesMusic
TIL Radio Tune Challenge
No. 5How Well Do You Know Your Southern Gospel Music
1.1k card appearancesMusic
Musicle
No. 6Name the album snippet
10k card appearancesMusic
Music Quizly
No. 7Can you guess the songs from a 0.1 second clip?
89 card appearancesMusic
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Heardle popularised the audio-clip format before it was pulled from the market, and several games have continued the same idea with their own song libraries.
Audio clips versus lyrics
Audio-clip games play a fragment of a song, often starting under a second long, and extend it after each wrong guess. Lyric-based games instead show a redacted line of text, which works even for players listening without sound.
Why song libraries vary between games
Licensing a song library is the main constraint on this theme, so games differ mostly in which decade, genre or region their daily picks are drawn from rather than in mechanic. A game built around a narrower catalogue can commit to deeper cuts than one trying to cover every era at once.
Questions people ask
Is there a replacement for Heardle?
Several games in the network use the same audio-clip format that made Heardle popular; they are listed below, ranked by how often visitors play them.
Do music games work without sound?
Lyric-based games do, since the clue is text; audio-clip games need sound to play as intended.
How are music games ranked on this page?
By visitor activity: Play presses first, game page opens second, recent weeks counting more. Recomputed hourly.