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Spotify has had an obscenely spendy few years.

First it purchaseda barrage of podcast companies, plusan audiobooks platformsomewhere along the way.
(Just spitballing here.)
But its latest deal doesnt sound like the others.
Well give you six tries.
and waseventually acquired by the New YorkTimesback in January.
(Relatedly, that snippet framework is an interesting way to get around music-licensing issues.)
That broader universe of Wordle spinoffs is shockingly expansive.
(Its harder than you think.)
Poke around even further and youll find deeper, occasionally fascinating variations on game play.
Why has Spotify bought a music-trivia game?
Just five tracks for Rihanna?
Still, Heardle is one of the spiffier variations.