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‘Heardle’ just tricked music fans around the world to mark April Fools

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Heardle has tricked music fans around the world with today’s genius song selection in celebration of April Fools Day.Created off the back of Wordle‘s viral success, the daily music game launched last month and tasks players with guessing a classic track in as little time as possible.

Fans get six tries overall, with each attempt or ‘skip’ revealing another portion of the tune.Per Headle‘s official website, the featured tracks are “plucked from a list of the most streamed songs in the past decade”, so music lovers have a decent chance of guessing them correctly.For today’s game (April 1) Heardle took inspiration from the undying ‘Rickroll’ meme that first took over the internet back in the mid-’00s.The prank baits unsuspecting victims with a hyperlink in disguise as something legit – for example: a news story, video or song relating to a subject matter that’s being discussed online.

Upon clicking, the user is instead directed to the video for Rick Astley’s 1987 synth-pop anthem ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.Heardle fans soon took to Twitter this morning to report that the ‘Rickroll’ had infiltrated the game, with one calling the April Fools nod “outstanding”.“Wait.

OK that’s good. April fools. Dammit Heardle,” a second user wrote. Another said: “omg the worlds most epic april fools @Heardle_app.” You can see those reactions and more below.If you know the makers of #Heardle personally, buy them a pint.

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