Heardle 70s

Today's Heardle 70s

Heardle 70s is the daily 1970s edition of the classic music-guessing game. Every 24 hours we pick one track from a curated pool of 1575 1970s songs and serve it to every player worldwide. Same puzzle, same clip, same six attempts — the only difference is who guesses it fastest.

Also written as "heardle 70's," "70s heardle," or "70's heardle daily," this page is your one puzzle for today. Come back tomorrow at 00:00 UTC for a fresh challenge.

The Sound of the 1970s

The 1970s gave us disco balls, arena rock, and Motown's mature era. The daily rotation draws from disco, classic rock, funk, soul, and singer-songwriter folk. Iconic artists you will hear across the rotation include ABBA, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, and Eagles, plus dozens of one-hit wonders and cult favorites that shaped 1970s popular culture.

If you grew up with this decade, the intros should feel like old friends. If you did not, each daily puzzle is a five-minute music-history lesson delivered as a game.

How to Play the Daily Puzzle

1. Press Play to hear a one-second clip of today's mystery 1970s song.
2. Type a song title or artist name. The autocomplete narrows the 1575-track pool instantly.
3. Submit your guess. A green square means correct; a red square extends the clip for your next try.
4. Skip if you want more seconds without spending a real guess on a hunch.
5. After a correct answer or six attempts, share your emoji score and see how friends did on the same daily puzzle.

Daily Strategy Tips

• Read the production first. Watch for four-on-the-floor disco beats, tight vocal harmonies, and analog string sections.
• Trust the vocal entry. In this pool, most tracks introduce the vocal within the first two seconds. If the intro is instrumental, skip once for extra context.
• Search by artist when the voice is familiar. Typing the artist narrows the list faster than fumbling for the song title.
• One shot per day. Unlike Unlimited, the daily puzzle rewards patience — think before you guess.
• Share to compare. The emoji share card lets friends see your attempts on today's exact puzzle.

Want to Practice Between Daily Puzzles?

If one puzzle a day is not enough, switch to Heardle 70s Unlimited. Same 1575-song pool, but every round draws a new random track — perfect for training your ear on 1970s music without waiting for tomorrow.

Inside the Heardle 70s Song Pool

This is not a generic 1970s playlist — it is the exact fixed pool our Heardle 70s draws from: 1575 tracks across 728 artists, each with a playable preview. Play this pool and the disco stereotype falls apart fast. It leans at least as hard into glam rock (David Bowie, Sweet), soft-rock balladry (Carpenters, Elton John, Chicago) and British pop as it does into the Bee Gees' dancefloor sound. Bowie tops the pool by track count — if you expect nothing but four-on-the-floor disco, the glam and singer-songwriter cuts will catch you out.

No single artist dominates: the top 12 by track count make up only about 9% of the pool, and roughly 57% of the 728 artists appear just once. It is a broad, long-tail pool rather than a greatest-hits loop.

The artists you are most likely to hear, by how many of their songs sit in this pool (as of November 2026):

A few tracks in this pool you can lock in fast — and the tell that gives each away in the first second:

• Queen — "We Will Rock You": The stomp-stomp-clap body percussion opens it with no instruments at all — one of the fastest locks in the whole pool.
• Bee Gees — "Stayin' Alive": That strutting hi-hat groove and the falsetto are unmistakable the instant the beat drops.
• Led Zeppelin — "Stairway To Heaven": The fingerpicked acoustic guitar and recorders in that famously slow build give it away before any vocal arrives.
• David Bowie — "Heroes": Listen for Robert Fripp's shimmering, feedback-drenched guitar drone humming under the beat — nothing else in the pool sounds like it.
• ABBA — "Waterloo": The bright piano-and-sax Eurovision stomp bursts in immediately — pure 1974 pop energy.

The soft-rock ballads are where players lose rounds here: Carpenters, Chicago and Wings all open on similar warm piano and strings that are nearly impossible to separate in a single second. If a clip opens gentle and instrumental, skip once before you commit.

Explore Other Heardle Decades

• Heardle 2020s — streaming-era pop and TikTok viral hits
• Heardle 2010s — EDM crossovers, modern hip-hop, and streaming-era pop
• Heardle 2000s — pop-punk, crunk, and early digital hits
• Heardle 90s — grunge, pop, and golden-era hip-hop
• Heardle 80s — synth-heavy hits from the MTV era
• Heardle 70s — disco, classic rock, and Motown
• Heardle 60s — British Invasion and psychedelic rock
• Heardle 50s — birth of rock and roll and doo-wop
• Heardle 40s — big band swing and wartime crooners

Or play the main Heardle for a mix of every era, switch to Heardle Unlimited, or focus on a style with Heardle Rock, Heardle Disco, Heardle New Wave, or Heardle Metal.

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