Solitaire

Solitaire (Klondike) is the classic single-player card game played with a standard 52-card deck. Deal 28 cards into seven tableau columns, build them downward in alternating colors, and move all 52 cards up into four foundation piles by suit, Ace to King. Play free in your browser with six modes: Draw 1 or Draw 3, each at Easy, Normal or Hard, plus an optional time limit, a hint button and multi-step undo.

Setup

• Tableau: 7 columns of 1 to 7 cards, left to right. Only the bottom card of each column is face-up.
• Stock: the remaining 24 cards, face-down in the top-left corner.
• Waste: where cards land face-up when drawn from the stock. Only the top one is playable.
• Foundations: 4 empty slots at the top right, one per suit.

Modes

Six combinations, chosen at the start or from the toolbar's New Game menu: 1 Card or 3 Cards draw, each at Easy, Normal or Hard. A separate Time Limit switch is off by default, in which case the clock simply counts up.

Controls

• Single click moves a card. Click any face-up card and it travels to a legal destination on its own, whether a tableau column or a foundation. No double-click or right-click is needed.
• Drag and drop also works if you prefer it; the drop is forgiving about precision.
• Face-down cards flip themselves when exposed. There is nothing to click.
• Hint highlights a playable card in purple. Undo steps back through several moves, including stock draws, and Redo reverses it.
• Restart redeals the same game; New Game deals a fresh one.

Rules

1. Build the tableau down in alternating colors (a red 6 on a black 7).
2. Only a King, or a run headed by a King, may fill an empty column.
3. Build each foundation up by suit from the Ace (A, 2, 3 ... K).
4. Draw from the stock when the tableau is stuck. The stock refills from the waste for another pass.
5. You win when all 52 cards reach the foundations.

Tips

• Uncover face-down cards first, and dig the longest columns before the short ones.
• Send Aces and 2s up quickly, but keep a 3 or 4 in the tableau if it is holding a run together.
• Do not empty a column unless a King is ready to fill it.
• Learn on Draw 1. A solver clears roughly 52% of draw-one deals against 18% of draw-three deals, so Draw 3 is the harder game rather than the proper one.