Sophia Valentine Finds Every Needle in 13.8 Million Pieces of Hay on Day Two

NIJISANJI — Sophia Valentine found every needle in a pile of 13.8 million pieces of hay on Thursday, finishing the game Find the Needle on the second night of her playthrough. The last one, a hat pin, turned up about two hours and 33 minutes into the broadcast, and she declared the game cleared.

The game has players build an automated factory to sift hay for needles. She started the night with roughly 5 million pieces left and decided at once to start over. She sold off everything she had built, tidied up the loose hay and laid out a new factory from a blueprint she had drawn on an iPad, with one side generating power and the other making paper. She said paper sold best.

“I found every needle in the mountain. I found them all. Yay, it’s cleared.” — Sophia Valentine, on finding the last needle

About half an hour in, her connection began to fail and the picture became unstable. She ended the stream, lowered her OBS settings and the bitrate, and came back on a new stream a few minutes later. Chat said the picture was steadier afterward. She went on building, adding drones, stairs and an elevated control room from which to look down on the factory. She also found a way to clear a hilltop of hay from above, which she called a revolution.

Once the last needle was found, she showed the viewers the heap of needles the factory had collected and the blueprint it was built from. She said she had been afraid of burning needles in the process and was glad she had not, and that she looked forward to the full version of the game. She read Super Chats, 12 in all, thanking each sender.

Near the end she said she would play Splatoon the next day, her first time in a tournament, and that she had to find her game cartridge once the stream ended. She signed off saying she planned to sleep well.