Area 13
Daily puzzles for humans
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Four new puzzles land every midnight Pacific: a word to decode, a route to fly, a farm to circle and a classified file to crack. No ads, no account, no tracking.
Attention, humans: four puzzles have landed.
Area 13 is a free collection of daily puzzle games from 13Beacons. Everyone gets the same puzzles, and new ones touch down every midnight Pacific time. Each game opens with a quick how-to the first time you play.
NIGHT SIGNAL
Decode one five-letter transmission in six attempts. Tiles flip to show which letters are in the word and which are in the right spot. Answers come from aliens, monsters, ghosts, cryptids, folklore and the strange edges of space, and every reveal ends with a short field note.
FLIGHT PATH
Fly one route through the numbered beacons in order, covering every square. Dark sky opens onto stars as you go, and the landing pad stays locked until every square is flown. Grids grow from 5×5 on Monday to 7×7 on the weekend.
CROP CIRCLES
Land one saucer in every row, every column and every colored field, with no two touching, not even corner to corner. Every farm has exactly one answer you can find without guessing. When you crack it, the saucers lift off and leave glowing crop circles behind.
REDACTED
Today's classified file hides a handful of themed words that fill the whole grid: cryptids, UFO sightings, haunted houses, witchcraft and more. Trace each one through touching letters to lift its redaction. Every letter belongs to exactly one word.
ALSO ON BOARD
• Designed for iPhone Duo: unfold it and every game splits around the fold, with the board on one half and the controls on the other
• Optional hints for Crop Circles and Redacted, off until you want them
• Streaks, stats and spoiler-free results to share
• Optional reminders when new puzzles arrive
• Game Center leaderboards and achievements for Night Signal (optional)
• Plays offline
• Supports Text Size, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion and Increase Contrast
• Plays on iPhone and iPad
Free to play. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account and no tracking.
Ratings & Reviews
GREETINGS, EARTHLINGS.
This is your Area 13 night-shift operator, transmitting from just past the cactus line. We have been busy while you slept. Here is what we beamed down:
TWO NEW PUZZLES
• Crop Circles: we parked one saucer in every row, column and field of a farm, none touching, not even at the corners. Find where. When you do, we lift off and leave you some art.
• Redacted: we lost a classified file. Its words fill the whole grid. Trace them through touching letters to un-black-out each one. Do not tell the government.
UPGRADES TO YOUR EXISTING PUZZLES
• Flight Path: unflown squares are now dark sky that opens onto stars as you fly through. A squares counter keeps score, and the landing beacon stays locked until every square is flown. Humans kept landing early. We noticed.
• Night Signal: tiles now flip as each guess is decoded, as tiles should.
• Every game opens its how-to the first time you play, and a small legend sits under each board.
• Optional hints for Crop Circles and Redacted live in Settings, off until you ask.
FOLDING PHONE DETECTED
Designed for iPhone Duo. Unfold it and every puzzle splits around the fold: board on one half, controls on the other. No tile, square or key sits in the crease. We checked. Twice.
Same rules as always: no ads, no account, no tracking. We only watch the sky.
See you at midnight Pacific.
— Area 13 night shift
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- 13Beacons, LLC
- Size
- 5.7 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Horror/Fear Themes
Contests
Guns or Other Weapons
- Copyright
- © 2026 13Beacons, LLC

