The classic card game, beautifully rebuilt for your browser. Deal in with one click: free, no download, no sign-up, on any device.
Ten solitaire variants, plus Hearts and Spades against the computer.
The classic. Build four foundations from Ace to King, the solitaire everyone knows.
Play nowTen columns, 1, 2 or 4 suits. Build full King-to-Ace runs to clear the board.
Play nowEvery card face up, four free cells, almost every deal winnable. Pure strategy.
Play nowYukon's demanding cousin: build down in the same suit. A real test of skill.
Play nowMove any face-up group, no stock pile. Everything is on the table from move one.
Play nowPair cards that add to thirteen and dismantle the pyramid row by row.
Play nowClear three peaks one step up or down at a time. Fast, streaky and addictive.
Play nowPlay the tableau onto the waste, one rank up or down. Aim under par.
Play nowTwo decks, ten columns and no mercy. The connoisseur's challenge.
Play nowThe old casino game. Beat the odds that were designed against you.
Play nowPlay Hearts against three computer opponents. Duck the queen, or shoot the moon.
Play nowBid, cover your partner and make the contract. Two against two, against the computer.
Play nowOne click and the cards are dealt. No download, no account, no waiting.
Honestly shuffled decks every game, with a restart button to replay the same deal.
Stuck? The hint engine finds the move that opens up the board, including hidden cards.
Phone, tablet or desktop: your game saves automatically and picks up where you left off.
Move all 52 cards onto the four foundations, one per suit, building up from Ace to King. Clear every card and you win.
Seven columns hold the dealt cards. Build them down in alternating colors: a red Six on a black Seven, a black Five on that red Six. Groups of cards in sequence move together, and only a King can fill an empty column.
Cards left over after the deal form the stock. Click it to turn cards onto the waste pile: choose Draw 1 for a relaxed game or Draw 3 for the classic challenge. When the stock runs out, click again to redeal the waste.
Whenever you move the last face-up card off a column, the card beneath is flipped. Uncovering the hidden cards is the heart of the game. A hint is one tap away when you're stuck.
Learn the rules properly, then learn to win.
The board, the goal and every legal move, explained the way you would teach a friend at the kitchen table.
8 min read StrategyWhy you should hold cards back, which column to dig first, and how to spot a deal that was never winnable.
9 min read RulesEvery card face up, four free cells, and almost no luck, plus the maths behind moving several cards at once.
7 min read ReferenceCartomancy, a Victorian rulebook, a gold rush, and the intern whose card game shipped on every PC on earth.
6 min readSolitaire (known as Patience in Britain) is the world's most played card game, with roots in 18th-century Europe. The version most people simply call "solitaire" is Klondike, which spread worldwide during the 1890s Klondike gold rush and later shipped with every home computer on Earth.
Every hand is a small puzzle: with a bit of planning, memory and timing, you tease order out of a shuffled deck. Some deals fall open in minutes; others fight you to the last card. That mix of luck and skill is why solitaire has held people's attention for more than two centuries, and why we're rebuilding the whole family of games, from Spider and FreeCell to Russian Solitaire, right here in your browser.
Not every card game is played alone, so two that are not sit alongside them. Hearts and Spades deal you in against computer opponents that bid, pass and play properly, which is as close as a browser gets to a real table. Same deck, same felt, no download and no sign-up.