Solitaire

Play Klondike Solitaire online free — the timeless single-player card game. Build the four foundations up from Ace to King and clear every card to win. Relaxing, endlessly replayable, and playable on phone or desktop with no download and no sign-up.

How to play

• Tap the stock pile in the corner to draw new cards.
• Tap a card to pick it up, then tap a pile to drop it there.
• On the tableau, build downward in alternating colours (a red on a black, and so on).
• Double-tap a card to send it straight to its foundation.
• Build each foundation up by suit from Ace to King.
• Clear all 52 cards to the foundations to win.

Turn over face-down tableau cards as early as you can — hidden cards are the ones that block you. Don’t rush every card to the foundations; keeping a mid-value card in play often gives you the alternating colour you need to unload another column, and only Kings can move into an empty column.

More about Solitaire

The game most people simply call Solitaire is really Klondike, named after the Yukon gold rush of the 1890s, where prospectors are said to have passed the time with it. It reached hundreds of millions of desktops as the card game bundled with Windows from 1990 — originally added to teach people the drag-and-drop mouse. Only a fraction of Klondike deals are actually winnable, so a lost game is often the deal, not the player.

Nothing beats real cards for Solitaire — a classic deck of Bicycle playing cards lasts for years. As an Amazon Associate, izn.games earns from qualifying purchases.