Verdict
16tiles.com is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Marketing/landing page for '16 Tiles', a mobile puzzle game describing gameplay, powerups (optional purchases), levels, weekly challenges, and download links. Sign-in is optional and the page emphasizes offline play, no ads, and no tracking. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 6.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 201912 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2019.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
16tiles.com is a landing website for “16 Tiles,” a mobile picture-puzzle game that presents gameplay instructions, powerups, sixteen difficulty levels, weekly challenges, and download options for iPhone and Android. Its apparent business model is free app distribution supported by optional in-app purchases rather than financial services or external payment collection.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The available page content does not show brand impersonation, a login form, credential collection, wallet connectivity, external payment requests, or deceptive financial claims. However, the site is subject to confirmed blacklist listings and multiple external threat detections, creating a material contradiction to the otherwise benign presentation. The technically clean game landing page therefore does not resolve the reputation concern, and sensitive interaction should be treated as unsafe pending independent resolution of those detections. No identity contradiction was observed because the evidence does not show two conflicting legal-entity names.
- Homepage: presents a mobile puzzle game with optional powerups and app-store download prompts; no sensitive form or external payment request was observed.
- External reputation records: confirmed blacklist status, with 2 malicious and 2 suspicious detections among evaluated results.
- Domain registration: created 2019-10-24T12:33:23Z and recorded as 6.82 years old.
- Archive history: 12 snapshots spanning 2019-12-07 to 2025-03-29 across 7 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website’s apparent gaming purpose does not itself indicate a regulated financial activity, but the available content does not establish a legal operator, corporate registration, or licensing position. Real-world identity verification remains incomplete, and the site’s commercial relationship to any app publisher or payment recipient is not independently established. The registered registrar is NameCheap, Inc.; that administrative fact does not overcome the separate external reputation concern. A mid-level page-authority signal provides limited contextual support only and is not evidence of legal status or legitimacy.
- Homepage: describes free distribution and optional in-app purchases but does not present a license, registration number, or independently verifiable corporate identity.
- Domain registration record: registrar NameCheap, Inc.; expiration date 2026-10-24T12:33:23Z.
- Homepage metadata: title is “16Tiles Picture Puzzle Game: Fun. Addictive. Challenging.”; no structured data was detected.
What to Verify Next
Before any download, account creation, or purchase, an enterprise or prospective user should independently match the app-store publisher name, developer account, privacy terms, and payment recipient to a verifiable legal entity. The reported blacklist and threat detections should be resolved through current, independent reputation checks rather than relying on the site’s own presentation. Any support or contact channel should be confirmed through an independently sourced route, and app permissions should be reviewed before installation.
- Homepage: provides download links for iPhone and Android and describes optional powerup purchases, creating identifiable publisher and payment-verification points.
- Homepage interaction review: no login form, hidden form, wallet-provider interaction, clipboard manipulation, or external network posting was observed.
- Site behavior: 2 of 2 observed runs completed successfully with 0 external XMLHttpRequest or fetch requests.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with sensitive-interaction risk. The site presents a coherent, apparently benign consumer-app proposition, but confirmed external reputation contradictions and incomplete independent identity verification prevent it from being treated as reliable for sensitive actions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, with the observed edge address 35.212.48.95 served from AS15169, Google LLC, in the United States; the origin server was not observable. This infrastructure provides an exposure-mitigation benefit, but it is not proof of legitimacy and cannot offset the external reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
Use should remain limited to non-sensitive inspection until the publisher identity, download provenance, payment relationship, and external reputation findings have been independently resolved.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of 16tiles.com.
- The request stayed on 16tiles.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NameCheap, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by siteground.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2019-12-07. Clear
- It is hosted on GOOGLE, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NameCheap, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GOOGLE - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 35.212.48.95 |
| Name servers | NS1.SITEGROUND.NET, NS2.SITEGROUND.NET |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-27 |
| Domain age | 6.82 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2019-12-07 |
| Archive snapshots | 12 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 16tiles.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.