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Have you heard about the latest Wordle-type puzzle?

If you can hear a song and recognise it within the first few seconds, then we guarantee this game will be music to your ears!

The game is called Heardle and the goal is to work out the daily song by listening only to its intro.

You get to hear the first 16 seconds, but of course there’s a twist - the 16 seconds are unlocked bit by bit and you only have six guesses.

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At the start of the game you’ll only hear the first second of the song. Yes, one single second. And if you guess it right, you’re crowned a musical virtuoso (take a bow).

If you guess wrong you’ll move onto your next guess. You can also choose to skip if you’re stuck - you’re not forced to guess each time.

A little bit more of the song gets unlocked every time you guess or skip as you work your way through your guesses.

From the initial 1 second, it then plays 2 seconds, 4 seconds, 7 seconds, 11 seconds…until finally you unlock the full 16 seconds of the song intro but it’s also your sixth and final guess.

But even if you recognise the tune, you still have to know the artist or song title so you can search for it in the database to make your guess.

The songs are semi-randomly picked from the most streamed songs of the last 10 years.

So you won’t have to dig too far into the musical archives, but you will need to be up with relatively recent songs from a wide variety of artists - some you may not even listen to.

So it probably pays to have diverse musical tastes.

Though some might argue that not guessing the song is a good thing!

The less guesses you need, the better your score, which of course is sharable on social media.

Just like Wordle, your result is displayed with boxes. Your Heardle result shows as a line of six boxes, with a green box indicating where you worked out the song. The sooner the green box appears, the quicker you guessed the song.

And just like Wordle, there’s only one song to guess per day so you can play it and move onto other things - or perhaps to the thousand other Wordle clone puzzles that may have overtaken your life!

The creators say their game was created for a small group of friends and has “somehow gained millions of players overnight. Honestly we’re overwhelmed”. Sound familiar? It's only up to game number 11, but we wonder if they’re looking for the New York Times to buy this one too. Or perhaps Spotify.

Click here to play Heardle.

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With an estimated fortune of $8.2 billion, CEO and co-founder of Canva, Melanie Perkins has signed a pledge to donate most of her fortunes to charitable causes in her lifetime.

The Giving Pledge founded in 2010 by billionaire Gates couple Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates and investor friend Warren Buffett was created as a promise by the world’s wealthiest to dedicate the majority of their wealth to charity. Notable members include Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson and Elon Musk. The Giving Pledge is a moral commitment, rather than a legally binding one.

This year, fourteen more of the world’s wealthiest signed up to the pledge with Perkins and her husband and co-founder of Canva, Cliff Obrecht among them.

The couple launched their design start-up Canva in 2013 with Cameron Adams in Sydney. The platform now attracts 60 million monthly users according to Forbes. 500,000 teams use the design platform from companies like Intel, Zoom and Lonely Planet paying to use the service. The software allows users to create designs with ease from menus to resumes and social graphics and now even video.

The company has been valuated by private investors at $40 billion (USD) in September of 2021 and Perkins owns an estimated 18% stake. The 34-year-old was one of Forbes’ “Top Under 30 of the Decade” in 2020 and this year made their Hall of Fame list. She first appeared on the Under 30 list in 2016, three years after launching Canva. At that point, there were eight million people using the web-based design app and was worth $165 million.

Perkins and Obrecht have said they’ve had a two-step plan for Canva, which was to build one of the world’s most valuable companies and do the most good they can do. They write in their pledge:

“We have this wildly optimistic belief that there is enough money, goodwill, and good intentions in the world to solve most of the world’s problems. We feel like it’s not just a massive opportunity, but an important responsibility and we want to spend our lifetime working towards that."

Born in Perth, Western Australia, Perkins aspired to be a figure skater growing up waking up at 4:30 am to train. By fourteen, she was selling handmade scarves in markets and to women’s boutiques around her hometown. She enrolled at the University of Western Australia with majors in communications, psychology and commerce where she met her now-husband Obrecht. The pair originally made money selling spray-on tattoos, but as a private tutor for students learning Graphic Design, Perkins dropped out of university at nineteen years old and founded her first company Fusion Books with Obrecht.

Fusion Books became Australia’s largest yearbook publisher within five years and expanded to France and New Zealand. The platform allowed students to design their own school yearbooks using the same concept behind Canva.

Perkins was recently announced as the second richest woman on Australian Financial Review’s Rich Women List behind Gina Rinehart who has an estimated fortune of $30.8 billion.

You can read more about Canva's history and their two-step plan here.

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In celebration of the wealth of Female Talent this International Women’s Day, Cool Accidents is presenting a virtual concert hosted by Saweetie.

Premiering 8th March at 7 pm AEDT, the International Women’s Day Concert features exclusive and previously-aired live performances from some of the most exciting artists from around the world including Griff, Jessb, Tayla Parx and more.

Watch the concert here: https://coolaccidents.lnk.to/IWD

Lending her talent to hosting duties fresh from helming the 2021 EMA’s, Saweetie is no stranger to Australian audiences. Her “Best Friend” collaboration with Doja Cat was remixed by JessB (NZ) and OKENYO (AU) and has recently gone platinum in both Australia and New Zealand. Her current single “Closer” featuring HER is also shooting up the AU airplay charts.

For a finger-on-the-pulse snapshot of incredible artists of all genres, look no further than the International Women’s Day Virtual Concert. Featuring the UK’s Griff, USA artists Tayla Parx, Raiche, The Regrettes, bktherula, Ncognita and homegrown talent Pania, Liyah Knight plus ‘across the ditch’ sister JessB, the IWD Virtual concert covers Pop, Rap, Rock and more. There’s even a choreographed Dance piece from Germany’s Flying Steps Dance Academy!

The IWD Virtual Concert Hosted by Saweetie airs live on Cool Accidents Youtube Channel on International Women’s Day, Tuesday 8th March 7:00 pm AEDT.

Save Saweetie’s “Closer” to your library for your ticket and go in the draw to win a deluxe Saweetie Weekender bag worth over $500.

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After playing Australia's first international stadium show over the weekend, rock giants Foo Fighters have announced they'll be returning to 'Straya and New Zealand later this year, and tickets are on sale this week!

Foo Fighters will be back to rock and roll down under with a tour across Australia & New Zealand this November & December!

The announcement follows days on from the global rock icon's one-off show in Geelong, where they played a mammoth 3-hour performance for over 30,000 fans.

As teased by Dave Grohl on stage in Geelong over the weekend, the band will be back before the year is out for a string of stadium shows right across the country with special guests at each city. 

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees will kick things off in Perth, then head to Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, before jamming in Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand.

Tickets will go on sale Thursday 10 March, with Frontier Members getting pre-sale access from Tuesday 8 March.

Tickets On Sale

Thursday 10 March:

  • PERTH: 2pm local time
  • MELBOURNE: 2pm local time
  • BRISBANE: 5pm local time
  • SYDNEY: 4pm local time
  • WELLINGTON: 1pm local time
  • AUCKLAND: 12pm local time

 

Frontier Members Pre-Sale

Runs 24 hours from Tuesday 8 March:

  • PERTH: 1pm local time
  • MELBOURNE: 3pm local time
  • BRISBANE: 6pm local time
  • SYDNEY: 5pm local time
  • WELLINGTON: 1pm local time
  • AUCKLAND: 12pm local time

Note: Pre-sale may end earlier if allocation is exhausted.

 

Show Dates & Locations

Wednesday 30 November 
HBF Park | Perth, WA 
Licensed All Ages  
On sale: Thursday 10 March (2pm local time)
Ticketmaster.com.au | T: 136 100 
With special guests The Chats + Teenage Joans 

Sunday 4 December
AAMI Park | Melbourne, VIC | An ALWAYS LIVE Event
Licensed All Ages 
On sale: Thursday 10 March (2pm local time)
Ticketek.com.au | T: 132 849
With special guests Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers + Hot Milk 

Saturday 10 December
Suncorp Stadium | Brisbane, QLD
Licensed All Ages
On sale: Thursday 10 March (5pm local time)
Ticketek.com.au | T: 132 849
With special guests The Chats + Hot Milk 

Monday 12 December
Accor Stadium | Sydney, NSW
Licensed All Ages
On sale: Thursday 10 March (4pm local time)
Ticketek.com.au | T: 132 849 
With special guests The Chats + Hot Milk 

Thursday 15 December
Sky Stadium | Wellington, NZ
Licensed All Ages
On sale: Thursday 10 March (1pm local time)
Ticketek.co.nz | T: 0800 842 538
With special guests Amyl and The Sniffers + Dick Move 

Saturday 17 December
Western Springs Stadium | Auckland, NZ
Licensed All Ages
On sale: Thursday 10 March (12pm local time)
Ticketmaster.co.nz | Ph: 0800 111 999
With special guests Amyl and The Sniffers + Dick Move

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 Images: Supplied / Frontier Touring