Solitaire and card games

Three classic solitaires, free in your browser, built to feel as good under a finger on a phone as they do with a mouse. Drag a card or a whole run, or tap a card and it goes where it can. Undo is always there when a line does not work out.

Three solitaires, three different games

They share a pack of cards and very little else.

• Klondike is the solitaire most people simply call solitaire: seven columns, four foundations, and cards hidden until you uncover them. Luck decides the deal, and your choices decide the rest.
• Spider uses two packs and ten columns. Any card can go on one a rank higher, but only a run of a single suit moves together, and a complete run from King to Ace leaves the table.
• FreeCell deals every card face up. With nothing hidden and four free cells to park cards in, it is closer to a chess problem than a game of chance.

Which one to pick

Pick Klondike for something familiar and relaxed. Pick FreeCell when you want every loss to be your own fault, because the whole deal is in front of you from the first move. Pick Spider when you have a little longer and want a game whose difficulty comes from keeping suits apart rather than from hidden cards.

Why solitaire lasts

Solitaire card games are far older than computers, and they have spread under names like patience and solitaire for well over a century. They came to personal computers when a single-player game needed nothing more than a mouse, and they have never left. The appeal has not changed: a deal takes a few minutes, every move is visible, and there is always one more deal.

Each game page explains the full rules, how the score is counted, and the strategies that actually improve your results.