Hay In A Needle Stack Simulator

FINDING A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK?
That's been done.
So we made the opposite.
Somewhere inside an enormous mountain of sharp, shiny needles lies a single piece of hay.
Your job? Find it.
How hard could that possibly be?
START WITH YOUR BARE HANDS
Welcome to the world's least sensible job.
Pick up needles one by one. Throw them away. Earn money, buy better tools, and slowly turn an impossible task into a slightly less impossible one.
Watch your hands, though. Needles are pointy, and your character has absolutely no idea what protective equipment is.
WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER
Your fingers can only take so much.
Upgrade from bare hands to gloves, tongs, shovels, magnets, and eventually increasingly ridiculous machinery.
What begins with painstakingly removing individual needles grows into moving enormous piles with powerful tools and automated equipment.
The goal is simple: remove more needles, faster.
SORT THROUGH THE CHAOS
Scooping up a hundred needles is easy.
Knowing whether you accidentally scooped up the hay? That's another problem.
Bulk collection requires sorting. Dump your haul onto sorting equipment, separate the needles, and keep an eye out for the one thing that actually matters.
No machine is going to find the hay for you.
FROM ONE NEEDLE TO INDUSTRIAL NONSENSE
Collect needles with hands, gloves, and progressively better tools.

Earn and upgrade to improve collection speed and capacity.

Sort your haul so you don't accidentally dispose of the hay.

Go magnetic with increasingly powerful needle-collecting equipment.

Automate the madness with robotic collectors and heavy machinery.

Find the hay buried somewhere beneath a truly unreasonable amount of metal.

ALL THIS WORK FOR ONE PIECE OF HAY
There are easier ways to get hay.
This is not one of them.
It's not a clone. It's the opposite.