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Solitaire card games
16 game types, 32 games. Free. No ads, no sign-up, no tracking. Works offline.
Solitaire, called patience in the UK, is any card game for one player. The best known is Klondike, the game many people simply call solitaire, but there are many others with their own layouts and rules.
Spider and Forty Thieves use two decks and reward planning. FreeCell deals every card face up, so almost every deal can be won with careful thought. Golf, TriPeaks, Pyramid and Aces Up are short games that finish in a few minutes, and Clock is pure luck. Each game type has a How to play section, and the rules follow published sources, which are named on each page. Every game is free, needs no account and works offline.
How we chose these: A game type is listed when it is a patience card game for one player. Players, ages and times are suggestions.
- Accordion1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 8+
Squeeze the whole deck into one pile by matching suit or rank one or three piles to the left. - Aces Up1 player · Under 5 min · Ages 7+
Discard lower cards of the same suit until only the four Aces remain. - Beleaguered Castle1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 8+
Aces start on the foundations. Shuffle cards between eight open rows to free them all. - Calculation1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 10+
Build four foundations counting up by ones, twos, threes and fours to the King. - Clock1 player · Under 5 min · Ages 6+
Turn cards around the clock face and reveal every card before the fourth King appears. - Elevens1 player · Under 5 min · Ages 7+
Clear the deck by removing pairs that add to 11 and sets of Jack, Queen and King. - Forty Thieves1 player · 15+ min · Ages 10+
Two decks, ten columns, build down by suit with a single pass through the stock. - FreeCell1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 8+
All cards face up. Use four free cells to build every suit onto the foundations. - Gaps (Montana)1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 8+
Arrange each row from 2 to King in one suit by moving cards into the gaps. - Golf1 player · Under 5 min · Ages 7+
Clear seven columns by playing cards one rank above or below the waste card. - Klondike1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 7+
Classic solitaire: build all four suits from Ace to King, turning one card at a time. - Monte Carlo1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 7+
Pair up touching cards of the same rank, then close the gaps and refill the grid. - Pyramid1 player · Under 5 min · Ages 8+
Remove pairs that add up to 13 (Kings alone) to clear the pyramid. - Spider1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 8+
Make eight King to Ace runs using only spades. The gentlest Spider. - TriPeaks1 player · Under 5 min · Ages 7+
Clear three peaks by playing cards one higher or lower than the waste card. - Yukon1 player · 5 to 15 min · Ages 8+
No stock: move any face-up group onto a card of opposite colour and one rank higher.