History Main / NeedleInAStackOfNeedles

* In "A Puzzling Tale" from Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, a woman who was changed into a flower (but is allowed to go home at night) tells her husband how to undo this. The way he tells which one is his wife is [[spoiler: she has no dew on her.]]

* While most HiddenObjectGame use the standard "needle in a haystack" approach, or blending it into the existing artwork, sometimes you have to find the correct object amongst a pile of similar objects.

A variation on HiddenInPlainSight. DoppelgangerSpin is this tactic applied to battle. For hiding ''people'', the equivalents are LostInACrowd, IAmSpartacus or the RingerPloy. ShellGame is when a stack of needles is made while a witness watches. PixelHunt is the video game equivalent. SerialKillingsSpecificTarget is when the 'needle' that's being hidden is a specific murder amongst what appears to be the work of a serial killer. DecoyConvoy is when the "needle" is hidden in separate transports. WireDilemma is when the "needle" is a specific wire in a nest of wiring. See also InvisiblySubtleDifference.

A variation on HiddenInPlainSight. DoppelgangerSpin is this tactic applied to battle. For hiding ''people'', the equivalents are LostInACrowd, IAmSpartacus or the RingerPloy. ShellGame is when a stack of needles is made while a witness watches. PixelHunt is the video game equivalent. SerialKillingsSpecificTarget is when the 'needle' that's being hidden is a specific murder amongst what appears to be the work of a serial killer. DecoyConvoy is when the "needle" is hidden in separate transports. WireDilemma is when the "needle" is a specific wire in a nest of wiring. See also DistinctionWithoutADifference.

A variation on HiddenInPlainSight. DoppelgangerSpin is this tactic applied to battle. For hiding ''people'', the equivalents are LostInACrowd, IAmSpartacus or the RingerPloy. ShellGame is when a stack of needles is made while a witness watches. PixelHunt is the video game equivalent. SerialKillingsSpecificTarget is when the 'needle' that's being hidden is a specific murder amongst what appears to be the work of a serial killer. DecoyConvoy is when the "needle" is hidden in separate transports. See also DistinctionWithoutADifference.

A variation on HiddenInPlainSight. DoppelgangerSpin is this tactic applied to battle. For hiding ''people'', the equivalents are LostInACrowd, IAmSpartacus or the RingerPloy. ShellGame is when a stack of needles is made while a witness watches. PixelHunt is the video game equivalent. SerialKillingsSpecificTarget is when the 'needle' that's being hidden is a specific murder amongst what appears to be the work of a serial killer. DecoyConvoy is when the "needle" is hidden in separate transports. See also DifferenceWithoutDistinction.

A variation on HiddenInPlainSight. DoppelgangerSpin is this tactic applied to battle. For hiding ''people'', the equivalents are LostInACrowd, IAmSpartacus or the RingerPloy. ShellGame is when a stack of needles is made while a witness watches. PixelHunt is the video game equivalent. SerialKillingsSpecificTarget is when the 'needle' that's being hidden is a specific murder amongst what appears to be the work of a serial killer. DecoyConvoy is when the "needle" is hidden in separate transports.

* ''Film/IRobot'': When Sonny is told to "go lose yourself" by an angry engineer, so he hides within a shipment of robots, [[spoiler:but it doesn't last because Spooner [[CuttingTheKnot just starts shooting them]] and spooks Sonny.]]

* In a robbery from 2008, a criminal dressed in safety goggles, a respirator mask, and a yellow safety vest attacked an armored car and escaped...after using Craigslist to hire unwitting freelance handymen who showed up across the street from the bank, [[https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/laborers-set-up-as-decoys-in-robbery-with-inner-tube-escape-plan/ wearing similar outfits.]]

* in "The Necklace of Pearls", a Character/LordPeterWimsey short story, a thief hides pearls at a

* in "The Necklace of Pearls", a Franchise/LordPeterWimsey short story, a thief hides pearls at a

* in "The Necklace of Pearls", a LordPeterWimsey short story, a thief hides pearls at a
Christmas party [[:in the mistletoe decorations]].

* In "A Puzzling Tale" from TheBrothersGrimm, a woman who was changed into a flower (but is allowed to go home at night) tells her husband how to undo this. The way he tells which one is his wife is [[spoiler: she has no dew on her.]]

** In the episode "Viva Las Pegasus", Applejack says this exact phrase.

** In "The Egg", the titular [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent gryphon egg]] gets accidentally covered in chocolate and dropped amid a pile of chocolate-covered Easter eggs. Jake and Fu find it by eating the chocolate off the eggs.

* In a 1980s ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' TV special, Daffy Duck and Sylvester wanted to hide a golden egg for safekeeping, so Daffy painted it white and hid it among some ordinary eggs. This wasn't such a bright idea.

* In season 4, episode 3 of ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'', one task had the contestants try to camouflage themselves as well as possible in one hour. Joe Lycett did this by grouping himself with ten other people wearing the exact same outfit and hat as him and all of them sitting with their backs to the camera. Greg was unable to figure out which person he was and Joe ended up ranking second in the task, coming behind only Noel who had ingeniously photoshopped himself into a scene as the banana in a fruit bowl.

* One ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' movie had a plot mainly revolving around a missing derby boxcar. Other cases are picked up by Brown and Sally, including one where one of their friends accidentally took a bully's bike, mistaking it for his own. Encyclopedia then imagines being in a court, acting as a lawyer for the friend and eventually asserting that among a bunch of other bikes (though each were different), the bike in question could be mistaken for another. This became his EurekaMoment as to how the boxcar could have been stolen.

* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': When Twilight goes into Trixie's mind to heal her of her Discording,
Loneliness tries to trap her in an illusion of a town populated entirely by copies of Trixie in various ages and genders. It is a representation of Trixie always feeling like she has never been anything special and has never been able to stand out from her many identical siblings. When Twilight asserts that she's going to save Trixie, she sees the real Trixie: a very young filly with greyed-out colors, crying on the street while everypony ignores her.