Find The Needle

A real needle in a real haystack, or close enough. Each tap clears one tile of straw, and a color tells you how warm you are.

How Find The Needle works

Tap the straw. Each tap clears one tile and counts as one try.

Read the color. From Freezing to Burning, the color word tells you how close that tile is.

Move around. Drag to look around the field. Pinch or use the mouse wheel to zoom.

Find the needle. The clock starts at your first sweep and stops when the needle shows.

Heat words

Freezing: the needle is far away
Cold: still distant
Warm: worth searching here
Hot: you are close
Burning: a neighbouring tile may hide it

Search like a grid

Random tapping wastes tries. Split the field into big squares in your head and test the middle of each. As soon as one square reads warmer than the others, split that square again. It is the same idea as Globle, but on a field of straw.

Common Find The Needle questions

How do you play Find The Needle?

Tap a tile of straw and read the color word. Freezing means far, and Burning means a neighbouring tile may hide the needle. Keep tapping toward the heat until it shows.

Is this the Find The Needle game with codes or a demo?

No. Searches for codes, a demo or multiplayer are about other games built on the same idea. This one is a daily browser puzzle at findtheneedle.app with one shared field a day.

Which daily try counts?

Your first finish of the day is the one that counts.

What is different on Hard?

The field is wide, the color word can be further off, and some tiles hide wire.

What does the puzzle number mean?

It counts days since 1 January 2026.