Swiftle

About Swiftle

Swiftle takes the Heardle format and narrows it to one artist. Every day it picks a Taylor Swift song and plays you a single second of it. Unlike most Heardle games, the clip can come from any part of the track, so a bridge or a verse is as likely as the opening bar.

You have six tries. Each wrong guess or skip unlocks one more second of the same clip, up to six seconds, and you can hit play as often as you like. The share grid marks each try: a skip, a wrong song, or a wrong song from the right album, which tells you that you are close. Statistics track your win rate, streaks and guess distribution.

Beyond the daily, Swiftle has four extra modes. Archive lets you start from any past date and play days you missed. Rapid, which the makers say is the most played, gives you a 13-second clip and a timer, and you build a streak by naming as many songs as you can. Lyrics asks you to name the song from a lyric, and Blank Space asks you to fill in the missing part of a line.

Swiftle is made by Techyonic, a small studio that also makes the puzzle game here and the mystery game An Elmwood Trail. It needs no sign-up, is free and carries no ads.

How to play Swiftle

1. Open Swiftle and press play to hear the day's one-second clip.
2. Type a Taylor Swift song title, pick it from the list and submit, or skip.
3. Each miss or skip unlocks one more second of the clip; you have six tries.
4. Share your result, then try the Archive, Rapid, Lyrics or Blank Space modes.

Tips

• The clip can come from anywhere in the song, so think about choruses and bridges, not only intros.
• A yellow square in the share grid means the right album: stay inside that era for the next guess.
• Listen to the production as much as the voice: the sound of each album era is a strong clue.
• Use Rapid mode for practice, since it trains you to recognise songs from mid-song clips quickly.

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