Needle Jam
Cover Up
The album sleeve is uncovered a quarter at a time. Name the artist as early as you dare — the longer you wait, the less it pays.
Now on the App Store
One song.
One song.
One challenge.
The whole table.
The music party game for iPhone. The song starts, a challenge drops — name the movie, spot the odd one out, put a mix in order — and everyone shouts their answer.
- Players
- Solo or up to 6, one iPhone
- Challenges
- 8 ways to spice up a turn
- Songs
- Over 1,900, in 7 decks
- TV
- On the big screen, AirPlay or HDMI cable
In 55 seconds
A Needle Jam night, start to finish
A song plays, a challenge drops, the whole table joins in — and the winner walks away with their own album. Easier to see than to explain.
- One iPhone — plugged into the TV for the whole room.
- Surprise challenges — quiz, cover up, mix, odd one out…
- An album for the winner — their greatest hits of the night.
The challenges
Eight ways to derail a turn
Nobody knows when a challenge drops, or which one. It never takes anyone's turn away: the song still plays, the card still gets placed. It only changes how you get there.
Music Mix
Several clips play back to back, a few seconds each. Recall the order they played in — and only then find out which one you're placing.
Music Quiz
A multiple-choice question while the song plays. Two hundred questions across eleven categories: decades, genres, lyrics…
Movie Song
The song plays, four films appear. Only one put it on its soundtrack.
Name That Tune
Before your turn, a mystery song. Pick its title from the choices.
Speed Round
Half the time to place the card. No time to argue.
Older or Newer
Two songs, one question: which came first? The challenge that gives a chance to people who "don't know anything about music".
Odd One Out
Four songs: three from the same decade, one that isn't. Find it.
A challenge drops on more than one turn in two — often enough that you expect it, never often enough to see it coming. Luck or knowledge? →
The whole table plays
It's never just one person's turn
Whoever holds the phone isn't alone. Everyone else has ways to get involved — and ways to regret it.
Call a letter
Answers get shouted across the room
Every choice gets a letter. The whole table can call it out to whoever holds the phone — to help, or to throw them off.
Steal or doubt
A miss is an opening
A wrongly placed card goes on offer to the next player, who bets on stealing it. Or play Doubt: anyone can challenge a placement before the reveal — at their own risk.
Tokens
Win a challenge, keep an edge
Win the challenge and place the card: one token. Hold two at most, and spend one to learn a song's decade.
A turn
Listen, place, reveal
Every player builds their own timeline. Older or newer than the songs you already have? Once someone lines up ten cards, the lap is finished so everyone gets the same number of turns — and the most points wins: cards, streaks and challenges all count.
The song arrives
The phone draws it from hundreds of hits.
It plays
The clock starts with the music. Sometimes a challenge crashes in.
You place it
Call the letter: before, after, or between two cards on your timeline.
The year drops
Right: the card stays. Wrong: someone else may take it.
1977The 70s
1991The 90s
Here?
2004The 2000s
2019The 2010s
On the TV
Your living room becomes a game show
The question, the choices and the timelines go up big for the whole room. The phone stays in the player's hands.
- AirPlay — to an Apple TV or a compatible TV, wirelessly.
- A plain cable — no AirPlay on your TV? A USB-C to HDMI cable plugged into the iPhone does the job.
- FaceTime — friends far away? Share your screen during the call: the game plays really well remotely.
The music
Nothing to connect to get started
Seven decks, each with its own songs and, almost always, its own questions. Every song plays a 30-second Apple Music preview. No account, no subscription, nothing to install. Subscribed to Apple Music? Turn on full songs in the settings.
Main deck
Decades of hits, playable in English or French.
Classic Rock
Riffs you know from the first bar. In both languages.
Québécois
Songs, trivia and films from Québec. French only — this one wouldn't make sense translated.
Country
From Hank Williams to today: 355 songs, with its own trivia and movie songs.
Francophone
French chanson from Piaf to today: 386 songs, with its own trivia and films. French only.
Childhood Nostalgia
The songs of the animated and family films a generation grew up with. Here the year to find is the film's, not the song's.
Party Booster New
283 dance hits from the '60s to today. No challenges: just the timeline and the music, to keep the party on its feet.
Ready for the next party?
Needle Jam is free on the App Store, for iPhone. No account, no subscription.