Play Solitaire Online
Play Klondike Solitaire with 7 tableau columns, a stock and waste and 4 foundations. There is nothing to install, and you can play without an account. The default Winnable deal always has a solution. You can also pick a Random deal or switch from Turn 1 to Turn 3.
The site has 29 games, including FreeCell, Spider, Pyramid, Yukon and Forty Thieves. Almost every game offers Winnable deals, so a win is possible from the opening. The notes below explain Klondike, and the guides cover the rules and decisions specific to the other games.
How to Play Klondike Solitaire
To win, fill the 4 foundations with all 52 cards, building each suit from Ace to King. You will first need to uncover the face down cards in the columns. Moving a visible card can reveal a useful card beneath it, but you cannot know which card that will be before the move.
In the tableau, place a red 7 on a black 8 or a black Jack on a red Queen. A descending run of alternating colors can move together. When you remove every face up card from a column, the next face down card turns over. Draw from the stock when you need another playable card.
Columns, Stock and Foundations
The opening tableau contains 28 cards. Its columns hold 1 through 7 cards from left to right, with only the bottom card of each column face up. The remaining 24 cards form the stock. The foundations start empty. If you clear a tableau column, only a King or a run headed by a King can fill it.
Draw 1 and Draw 3
Turn 1 exposes 1 stock card at a time. Turn 3 exposes up to 3, but only the top waste card is available. Playing that card exposes the next card beneath it. Both modes use the same tableau rules, but in Turn 3 fewer stock cards come within reach.
Scoring and Leaderboards
The leaderboards list signed-in wins on Winnable deals that finish without Hint, Undo, Auto finish or the Is it winnable? moves. Using any of those marks the game as Assisted, and it still goes into your personal stats. Standard scoring allows unlimited stock passes. Vegas starts you at minus 52, pays 5 points for each foundation card and gives you a single pass through the stock. No money is involved.
Klondike Strategy
Before moving a card, check what the move exposes and where the next card can go. These are useful decisions to revisit when a deal becomes difficult:
- Compare moves that uncover a face down card. Opening the column with more hidden cards is often useful, unless the other move frees a card you need immediately.
- Aces and 2s can go to the foundations safely. For higher ranks, check whether the card is still needed to hold a lower card of the opposite color in the tableau.
- Before emptying a column, find the King that will use it. Moving a King from another column can expose a hidden card there.
- In Turn 3, playing a waste card changes the groups seen on the next stock pass. Consider which blocked card that change would expose.
The Klondike strategy guide explains these decisions with board examples. For a rule you are unsure about, use the how to play guide.
Are These Deals Winnable?
A Winnable deal has a known solution from its starting position. You can still go wrong along the way, and the solution is rarely obvious. A Random deal is an ordinary shuffle and may be impossible to finish. If you get stuck, Is it winnable? tells you whether your current position can still be won. You can also read how we check that a deal can be won.
Pick a Deal or Take the Daily
The New game menu lets you set the kind of hand before the first card moves. Winnable deal gives you a hand with a known solution, Random deal gives you an ordinary shuffle and Daily challenge gives everyone the same deal for the date, so you can compare your result with other players. Daily results and streaks live on the daily solitaire challenge page, apart from your everyday games.
Explore the Full Solitaire Collection
The collection includes games with open cards, extra holding spaces or a different goal. Here is what changes when you move away from Klondike.
More Klondike
Klondike Turn 3 keeps the familiar 7 columns but restricts access to waste cards. Double Klondike uses 2 decks, 9 columns and 8 foundations, so you must also choose between duplicate cards.
Spider
Spider drops the separate foundations and asks you to build 8 full suits down the columns themselves. Begin with 1 suit to learn the shape, then move up to 2 suits and the full 4 suit game. The Spider guide covers all 3.
FreeCell and its family
FreeCell deals every card face up and hands you 4 open cells, so with careful reading almost every game can be solved. Its relatives each change a single rule. Baker's Game builds in suit and Eight Off hands you more cells, while Seahaven Towers spreads 10 narrow towers and ForeCell, Three Cells and Two Cells trim the room you have to work in. The FreeCell variants guide lines them all up side by side.
Forty Thieves
Forty Thieves fills 10 columns from 2 decks, then allows only single-card moves down in suit. Its 64-card stock passes once, so every waste card has a limited window to find a home.
Baker's Dozen and its cousins
Baker's Dozen spreads the whole pack into 13 short columns with no stock pile and no holding cells. Its 3 close relatives each ease or change one rule: Spanish Patience, Castles in Spain and Portuguese Solitaire. The Baker's Dozen guide spells out how each one plays.
Clear the board
For a quicker game, Pyramid pairs cards that add up to 13, TriPeaks runs long chains one rank up or down and Golf sweeps the columns onto a single pile. Each comes with its own guide: Pyramid, TriPeaks and Golf.
Yukon
Yukon looks like Klondike with the stock removed, then lets you pick up a whole group of cards at once, in order or not, which turns it into a heavier and more open puzzle. The Yukon guide breaks down the group move that defines it.
You can browse the lot from the full games list, and every guide we have written sits in the guides hub.
Solitaire and Patience
Solitaire is a family of card games for one player, also known as patience. Klondike is the familiar version with 7 columns, but the name covers many different layouts and rules. Computer versions made it possible to play without shuffling a physical deck and to undo a move without reconstructing the table by hand.
Common Questions
Is solitaire free to play here?
Yes. Every game on the site is free, runs in the browser and needs no download and no account. You only need to sign in if you want your results kept with an account across devices or a place on the leaderboards.
Is every deal winnable?
Every Winnable deal has a known solution from the start. A Random deal is an ordinary shuffle and may have none. Our guide to whether solitaire is winnable explains the difference.
Does undo hurt my score?
No. Undo has no effect on your points, and you can use it as often as you like. A game where you used it is marked Assisted, though, so it goes into your stats but not onto the leaderboard.
What is the difference between Turn 1 and Turn 3?
Turn 1 draws 1 stock card at a time. Turn 3 draws up to 3, with only the top waste card playable. The tableau layout and movement rules are the same.
How does the daily challenge work?
Every player gets the same daily deal on a given day. The daily challenge page keeps your daily results, streak and share links separate from your ordinary games.
Why was my move rejected?
Each move is checked against the rules of the game you are playing, including color, rank, suit and whether the card is face up. In Klondike, only a King or a run headed by a King can go into an empty column. If a move breaks one of those rules, the card goes back where it came from.