Free Solitaire
This is free solitaire — Klondike — playable straight away, no download and no account. Deal seven columns, build the four foundations up from Ace to King in suit, and stack the tableau down in alternating colours. Choose draw one or draw three, drag cards or just click them, and undo as far back as you like.
Draw 1. One card off the stock per click, so every card in the deck is reachable however you play. The forgiving version, and the one to learn on.
Your statistics · Draw 1
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- Won
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- Win rate
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- Streak
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- Best streak
- 0
- Best time
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Kept in this browser, on this device only. Abandoning a deal in progress counts as a loss, so the win rate means something.
Today’s deal
Everyone playing Klondike Solitaire today gets deal #2470499591. It changes at midnight UTC.
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Replay a deal
Every deal is a pure function of its number, so deal #20260726 is the same shuffle on any device, any time.
Keyboard
- U / Z
- Undo
- R
- Redo
- H
- Hint
- N
- New deal (asks first)
- F
- Full screen
- Space
- Turn the stock
- A
- Auto-finish
- Esc
- Deselect, or leave full screen
- Deck
- 52 cards, one deck
- Tableau
- 7 columns, 28 cards
- Stock
- 24 cards
- Goal
- All 52 on the foundations
How do you play solitaire?
Seven columns hold 28 cards, one to seven per column, with only the last card of each column face up. The remaining 24 cards sit in the stock. You are building four foundation piles, one per suit, upward from Ace to King. To free the cards you need, you build the tableau downward in alternating colours — a red six goes on a black seven, never on a red one.
An empty column will only take a King, which is why an empty column is worth so much less than beginners expect. Turning the stock gives you one card at a time on draw one, or three at a time on draw three with only the top of the three in play.
Is draw one or draw three the real game?
Both are. Draw one lets you reach every card in the deck, so the deal itself rarely beats you. Draw three locks two cards out of every three behind the one on top — and because a redeal reproduces exactly the same triples, the only way to reach the other two is to play a card off the waste and shift the phase. The best measurement we have is for thoughtful draw three, where the player knows every face-down card in advance: Charlie Blake and Ian Gent's Solvitaire solver put it at 81.956% ± 0.096% across a million deals in 2019. Playing blind you will win a great deal less often than that.
If you are learning, start on draw one. If you want the version that appears in tournaments and in the original Windows game, use draw three.
What makes this different from the solitaire in your search results?
- The board is the first thing on the page. No interstitial, no email gate, no ad between you and the cards.
- Unlimited undo, and a redo to go with it — a hint that costs you nothing to check.
- Both input styles: drag a card, or click it and let it fly to the best legal pile.
- Your deal has a number. Note it down and you can replay exactly the same shuffle.
- Statistics — games, wins, streak, fastest time, fewest moves — kept on your device and nowhere else.
Which solitaire should you play next?
If Klondike's hidden stock frustrates you, FreeCell shows every card from the start and is famously almost always winnable. If you want the same tableau rules with far more freedom, Yukon solitaire lets you move any face-up card with everything piled on top of it. For the two-deck game, spider solitaire is the standard, and Forty Thieves is the punishing one.
How do you get better at solitaire?
- Always turn a face-down card if you canA move that reveals a hidden card gives you new information and a new option. A move that only shuffles face-up cards between columns usually gives you neither.
- Do not empty a column without a King readyAn empty column is only useful if you can fill it. Emptying one while every King is buried wastes the only flexible space on the board.
- Hold back high cards from the foundationsOnce a Seven goes up, the Sixes of the other colour have nowhere to land. Bank Aces and Twos freely; think twice about anything above a Five while the tableau is still crowded.
- Play the stock first on draw threeOn draw three, cycling the stock changes which cards are reachable. Making tableau moves before you cycle can lock the stock into an order that never offers the card you need.
Solitaire questions people ask
- Is this solitaire really free?
- Yes. Every game on the site is free to play with no account, no download and no time limit. The site is supported by advertising placed below the board, never over it.
- Can I undo a move in solitaire?
- Yes, as many times as you like, all the way back to the deal. Redo steps you forward again, so you can explore a line and back out of it.
- What percentage of solitaire games are winnable?
- About 82% of draw-three Klondike deals can be won if you already know where every face-down card is — 81.956% ± 0.096%, measured by Blake and Gent in 2019. Playing normally, without seeing the stock, human win rates are far lower. Draw one is easier than draw three because nothing in the deck is unreachable.
- Does an empty column accept any card?
- No. In Klondike an empty column accepts a King only, or a sequence headed by a King. That is the rule that makes emptying a column much less useful than it looks.
The rules in six lines
- 1Deal seven columnsDeal 28 cards into seven columns of one to seven cards. Turn the last card of each column face up. The remaining 24 cards form the stock.
- 2Build the tableau down in alternating coloursMove a face-up card onto a card one rank higher of the opposite colour. A red six goes on a black seven. You may move a whole properly ordered sequence at once.
- 3Turn face-down cards as you free themWhen a move exposes a face-down card, turn it up. Uncovering hidden cards is the whole game — a move that reveals nothing rarely helps.
- 4Fill empty columns with KingsOnly a King, or a sequence headed by a King, may go into an empty column.
- 5Turn the stock when you are stuckClick the stock to draw one card (or three, on draw three) to the waste pile. When the stock runs out, the waste turns over and becomes the stock again.
- 6Build the foundations from Ace to KingFoundations start with an Ace and build up in the same suit. Move all 52 cards there to win.
The long version, with worked examples and the questions beginners actually ask, is on how to play solitaire.
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