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Needle in a Haystack
Last updated 2026-10-04 · benchmark measured 2026-10-28 — deterministic & reproducible
A free browser game where you cut through 5,000,000 straws to find one hidden needle.
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Legit.Show scored Needle in a Haystack 76/100 on 2026-10-28, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/needleinahaystack-online/2026-10-28
Is Needle in a Haystack production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Needle in a Haystack 76 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Needle in a Haystack (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 55/100
- Accessibility — 100/100
- Security — 25/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 75/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 89/100
- Discoverability — 87/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 918 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Casual gamers · Browser game players · Relaxation game enthusiasts · Indie game fans
Pricing
Free
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from needleinahaystack.online's own website on 2026-10-04.
- Operator
- needleinahaystack.online, as named in needleinahaystack.online's terms, privacy page or footer.
- Benchmark
- Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-28.
Put together from public information, without Needle in a Haystack's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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