Needle Tap

A one-minute timing game with ten difficulty steps: tap when the sweeping needle is inside the yellow zone. One miss ends the run, and the zones change every day.

Controls

Tap the screen, click, or press Space

Time limit

40 seconds

Score

Clear time, lower is better

Type

Timing

How to play Needle Tap

1. Watch the needle sweep around the ring.
2. Tap the screen, click, or press Space while the needle is inside the yellow zone.
3. Every hit flips the needle’s direction, speeds it up and makes the next zone a little narrower. On difficulty 5, twelve hits clear it.
4. You start on difficulty 3 of 10. Clear a difficulty to unlock the next: more hits, a faster needle and narrower zones. Pick any unlocked difficulty with the arrows on the start card.
5. Tapping too early, or letting the needle pass straight through the zone, ends the run.

Tips

• The bright middle of the zone is a perfect hit. Aim for it and you keep some margin either side.
• The zones come in the same order every attempt all day, so the pattern gets easier to read with practice.
• After each hit, look at where the new zone is before the needle gets there: the direction always flips.
• Everyone gets the same zones all day, and new ones at midnight UTC. “Practice a new layout” deals fresh zones any time, off the leaderboard.