The Needle in the Haystack
5 Million Straws. 1 Needle.
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Settle into a cozy wooden barn and start your search. Remove one straw per tap to find the only needle in your own five-million-straw haystack.
The impossible search becomes a game: every new haystack hides exactly one needle among five million individually addressable straws.
Circle the whole pile, zoom down to individual fibres and pull straws directly from the material. The haystack visibly reacts to every removal. No artificial hint automatically reveals the needle.
The complete manual search is free and always solvable. Optional Haystack Credits (in-app purchase) unlock the Poke and timed power-ups. The app shows ads; you decide at first launch and any time in Settings whether they may be personalised. No subscriptions.
Included:
- a deterministically generated 3D haystack with exactly 5,000,000 straw IDs
- direct searching on iPhone and iPad
- a companion Apple Watch experience
- VoiceOver, large text, Reduce Motion, and separate audio and haptic controls
- local saves and optional private iCloud backup
- no mandatory account; Sign in with Apple only for the optional credit purchase
Patience game, technical simulation and performance art meet in one improbably large task.
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Version 1.11: Meet “Daily Barn”: every day, everyone searches the same haystack, and the fastest find time goes to a Game Center leaderboard. After a find, one tap takes you to the next barn, each a little harder. The Induction Probe and the Phased-Array Scanner can now be used with credits, while the Precision Magnetic Rake and the Industrial Metal Detector stay free. Also new: a daily bonus with a streak and an optional reminder. Full-screen ads appear at most once per 15 minutes of play.
The developer, Alessandro Brning, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Alessandro Brning
- Size
- 44.1 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 43 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- 10,000 Credits $89.99
- 5,000 Credits $44.99
- 500 Credits $3.99
- 300 Credits $2.99
- 100 Credits $0.99
- 2,000 Credits $17.99
- 1,000 Credits $8.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 BRUNIQO · Alessandro Bruening
