Los niños jugaron en el jardín.

The audio sounds like he is saying ‘Jugaban’ not ‘Jugaron’. IMO

The audio does say jugaban instead of jugaron.

English Translation

The children played in the garden.

The Clozemaster audio (female voice) now says jugaron.

However, the linked sentence over at Tatoeba uses jugaban, so I’m not really sure why this sentence uses jugaron anyway.