Solitaire
Mouse and keyboard
- Click a card to pick it up, then click where it should go.
- Or drag it there — both work.
- Double-click any card to send it straight to a foundation.
- Click the stock pile, or press Enter when it is focused, to turn a card.
- Legal moves, in the settings beside the card size, rings every pile the lifted card can legally go to. The rings are on to start with; turn them off if you would rather find the moves yourself, and the choice is kept. Hint, on the toolbar, shows the one move it rates best.
Touch
- Tap a card to select it, then tap its destination.
- Or drag it with your finger — the whole run comes with it.
- Double-tap to send a card to a foundation.
- Tap the stock pile to turn a card.
- Legal moves, in the settings beside the card size, rings every legal destination while your finger is on a card. The rings are on to start with; turn them off if you would rather find the moves yourself, and the choice is kept. Hint, on the toolbar, shows the one move it rates best.
This panel
- F full screen
- M sound on or off
- ? this list
- Esc close, or leave full screen
- The clock stops while the board is off screen
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- Quick hands Win a game of Klondike in under three minutes. Needs: under three minutes Locked
- No take-backs Win a solitaire deal without using undo. Needs: no undo Locked
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About Solitaire
Classic Klondike, playable with one thumb.
Solitaire is the game almost everyone has played and almost nobody has been taught. It shipped with Windows in 1990 as a way to teach people how to use a mouse, and it outlived that job by thirty-five years.
The version here is Klondike — the one people mean when they say “solitaire”. Fifty-two cards, seven columns, four foundations, and a stock pile you turn when you run out of ideas.
The table you play on is green felt unless you change it — the settings button beside the board keeps six other surfaces, six card backs and a choice between a two-colour and a four-colour deck — and the S / M / L control sets how big the cards are drawn. L draws large cards, the largest that still fit every column on your screen, for anyone reading at arm’s length; the seven columns always fit.
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Whichever name you know it by, it is the same game: it runs in this browser, with no download and no sign-up.
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How to play Solitaire
- Move every card to the four foundation piles The piles the game is won on. Clear every card to them and the deal is finished. at the top, each built up from Ace to King in a single suit.
- In the seven tableau columns, The columns you work in. Cards are stacked and rearranged here before they go anywhere final. build downwards in alternating colours — a red six goes on a black seven.
- Only a King can move into a completely empty column.
- Turn cards from the stock pile The undealt pile. Turn a card from it when nothing on the table will move. in the top left when you run out of moves. When the stock empties, it recycles.
- A face-down card flips over as soon as you clear the card sitting on top of it.
- Deals is set to Winnable to start with, so every new game is one a solver has already finished and a deal you cannot win is your own doing. Switch it to Any deal for the raw shuffle. The Daily is never filtered — it is the same deal for everyone, winnable or not.
Strategy that actually helps
- Uncover face-down cards before anything else. A column you cannot see into is a column you cannot plan around, and every flipped card is a new option.
- Do not rush Aces and Twos to the foundations if those cards are still doing work in the tableau. A low card can be the only legal home for the card you need to move next.
- Empty a column early if you can, but hold it for a King you actually want — the one that unblocks the most face-down cards, not just the first King you see.
- Build the foundations evenly. Racing one suit to the King strands the opposite colour and leaves you with nowhere to place mid-rank cards.
- On turn 3, count the stock before you commit. The cards you skip come round again in the same order, so you can plan two passes ahead.
Controls
Mouse and keyboard
- Click a card to pick it up, then click where it should go.
- Or drag it there — both work.
- Double-click any card to send it straight to a foundation.
- Click the stock pile, or press Enter when it is focused, to turn a card.
- Legal moves, in the settings beside the card size, rings every pile the lifted card can legally go to. The rings are on to start with; turn them off if you would rather find the moves yourself, and the choice is kept. Hint, on the toolbar, shows the one move it rates best.
Touch
- Tap a card to select it, then tap its destination.
- Or drag it with your finger — the whole run comes with it.
- Double-tap to send a card to a foundation.
- Tap the stock pile to turn a card.
- Legal moves, in the settings beside the card size, rings every legal destination while your finger is on a card. The rings are on to start with; turn them off if you would rather find the moves yourself, and the choice is kept. Hint, on the toolbar, shows the one move it rates best.
Questions
Is this solitaire free to play?
Yes, completely. There is no download, no account and no payment. The game runs in your browser and starts the moment the page loads.
Can I play solitaire on my phone?
Yes. Tap a card to select it and tap again to place it, or drag it with your finger. Every control has a touch equivalent, and the layout compresses long columns so a full column still fits on a small screen.
What is the difference between turn 1 and turn 3?
Turn 1 deals a single card from the stock each time, which makes almost every game winnable. Turn 3 deals three at a time and you can only play the top one, which is considerably harder and is the traditional scoring version.
Can every game of Klondike be won?
No. The best published estimate — Bjarnason, Fern and Tadepalli's Monte-Carlo study of Klondike (ICAPS 2009) — puts a lower bound of about 82 percent on turn-1 deals that can be won by a player who can see every card, and turn 3 is considerably lower. Nobody knows the exact figure, and we do not publish one of our own. A deal you cannot win is not a bug: undo, deal again, or set Deals to Winnable and let the solver check the board before you get it.
Does the game save my progress?
Yes. A half-finished deal is written to this browser and restored when you come back. Undo reaches a thousand moves while the tab is open — further than any real deal runs — and the last thirty of them survive a reload, because that part is kept in this browser's storage and has a smaller budget. It is on this device only: clearing your site data clears it.