SonglessMUSIC
Cuts by duration instead of by instrument, and it starts at a tenth of a second. Six tries, and its archive sits behind a Lessgames subscription, so a missed day is not free to recover.
The Best Bandle Alternatives
Top daily music games like Bandle
Bandle strips a song to one instrument and hands the rest back until you give in. These daily music games also give you a fragment. They just choose a different piece to keep.
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Games like Bandle
HeardleMUSIC
Less a single game than an index of them: the song of the day plus an entry per decade from the 1940s to the 2020s and sections by genre. Six guesses, no account, and the narrower boards are the easier ones.
SampledleMUSIC
Plays the original record rather than the hit, and asks which famous song sampled it. Five guesses, free archive, no account. The one that rewards knowing where a loop came from.
TrackdylMUSIC
Drops audio for a blurred album cover and wants only the artist, not the title. Six guesses, and it is freemium rather than free.
SpotleMUSIC
No sound at all. Ten guesses at a hidden artist from a roster of a thousand, each one scored against the answer, so you can triangulate a name you have never heard. Free, no account.
Choosing between them
Which of these can I play without headphones?
Spotle and Trackdyl. Spotle scores each name against the hidden artist and never plays anything, and Trackdyl works off a blurred album cover. Songless, Heardle and Sampledle all need audio to be playable at all.
How many guesses do they give me?
Spotle gives ten, Heardle and Trackdyl six, Songless six per board, and Sampledle five. Bandle counts differently: it scores you on using as few instruments as possible, with a par attached to each song rather than a fixed budget.
Can I go back and play a day I missed?
Bandle keeps its last seven days and Sampledle keeps a free archive, both at no cost. Songless has an archive too, but it wants a Lessgames subscription. Heardle, Trackdyl and Spotle record none in the catalogue.