Solitaire
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About This Game
Play classic Klondike Solitaire free online. Tap to move cards, auto-complete to the foundations, undo anytime. No sign-up, works on mobile and desktop.
How to play Solitaire
Objective: Win by building all four foundation piles up from Ace to King in a single suit, which moves every one of the 52 cards onto the foundations.
You start with seven tableau columns holding one through seven cards left to right, with only the bottom card of each column face up. Above them sit the stock, the waste, and four empty foundation slots marked A. Tap the stock to flip one card to the waste. When the stock empties, its slot shows a loop arrow; tap it to turn the whole waste back into a fresh stock and keep drawing, as often as you like.
Build foundations upward by suit: an Ace starts any empty foundation, then the two, three, and up to the King of that same suit. Build tableau columns downward in alternating colors, so a red six only accepts a black five. An empty column can be filled only by a King. To move a card, tap it to pick it up, then tap the destination pile. Tap an already picked-up card again to auto-send it to a foundation.
You can lift a run of several tableau cards at once, but only if they already form a valid sequence: face up, descending by one rank, and alternating red and black. Tap the top card of that run and the whole stack rises together, then drop it on a column whose exposed card is one rank higher and the opposite color. A single card from the waste plays to the tableau or a foundation the same way.
Whenever a move exposes a face-down tableau card, that card flips up automatically. The header tracks your move count and a timer that starts on your first move. Undo steps back through your last 50 states and subtracts one from your total, and it is disabled once you win. New Game reshuffles the deck, and your lowest winning move count is saved in the browser as your Best.
Tips and strategy
Free the buried cards
Every face-down tableau card blocks progress until the cards on top of it move. Prioritize plays that expose new columns over stashing cards on the foundations, since a card sent up early can leave a color you needed for a tableau chain unavailable.
Hold low cards back
You do not have to send a card to a foundation the moment it qualifies. Keeping a two or three in the tableau gives you a landing spot for the opposite-color card below it. Send low cards up only once you no longer need them as bridges.
Save Kings for empties
Empty columns accept only Kings, so an empty slot is wasted until you have a King ready. Try to clear a short column when a King (ideally one with a useful run beneath it) is exposed and can slide straight into the gap.
Recycle to plan
Because you can cycle the stock through the waste as many times as you like, take one full pass just to read the deck. Note which cards are coming before you commit tableau moves, then use undo to reverse a draw that leads nowhere.
Chase a low move count
Your Best is measured in moves, not time, and every stock draw and recycle counts as one. Combine plays where you can, move full runs instead of single cards, and avoid needless draws to push your saved score lower.
The history of Solitaire
Klondike, the layout played here with seven tableau columns and four suit foundations, became the most widely known form of single-player card game after it started appearing in printed collections of patience games in the late nineteenth century. Its name is often linked to the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, though the exact origin is not firmly documented.
The game reached a mass audience when it shipped with Microsoft Windows in 1990, where it was simply labeled Solitaire and introduced millions of people to the draw and foundation mechanics. Because a shuffled deal is not always winnable, Klondike remains a favorite subject for probability study, with estimates of solvable draw-one games commonly cited in the low-to-mid eighty percent range.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move more than one card at a time?
Tap the highest card of the group you want. If those cards form a valid run, meaning they are face up, drop by one rank each step, and alternate red and black, the whole run lifts together. Then tap a column whose exposed card is one rank higher and the opposite color to drop the entire run there.
Does the game deal one card or three from the stock?
One. Each tap of the stock flips exactly one card face up onto the waste, and only that top waste card can be played. This is the draw-one version, which is more forgiving than draw-three because you see and can use every card in the deck on each pass.
Can I run out of moves and lose?
There is no built-in loss or time limit, and you can recycle the stock endlessly, so the game never declares you stuck. A deal can still be unwinnable in practice once every remaining move only shuffles cards without freeing a blocked one. When that happens, use New Game to reshuffle.
How does scoring work here?
There is no point score. The game counts your moves and your elapsed time, and when you win it saves your lowest move count as your Best in the browser. Every card placement, stock draw, and stock recycle adds one move, while undo subtracts one, so efficient play lowers the number you are chasing.
What does the undo button do?
Undo reverses your most recent action and drops your move count by one. It remembers up to your last 50 states, so you can step back through a chain of moves, including stock draws. Undo is disabled after you win. Use it freely to test a line and back out if it does not open up a column.
How is my Best score saved?
When you win, your move count is compared to any previous best stored in your browser's local storage, and the lower number is kept and shown in the header. It stays between sessions on the same browser but is not sent anywhere or synced across devices. Clearing site data resets it.