🃏 Solitaire
🂡 Cards · 2 playsSolitaire
Klondike patience: seven columns, four foundations, one deal at a time.
About Solitaire
Klondike is the game most people mean when they say solitaire, and it rewards patience of the ordinary kind as well as the card-game kind. Twenty-eight cards sit in seven columns with only the bottom of each one showing, so most of your early work is deciding which column to dig into first. The recurring judgement is whether to send a card to a foundation or keep it in the tableau where it can still receive a card; sending too eagerly strands a column and ends the game quietly. Luck sets the ceiling here — a meaningful share of three-card deals cannot be won by anyone — but careless play loses deals that were perfectly winnable.
How to Play
Build the columns downward in alternating colours, red on black and black on red. Foundations run upward by suit from Ace to King. Turn the stock for new cards, move a King into any column you empty, and undo freely while you test a line.
💡 Tips & Strategy
Prioritise the moves that reveal information. Every face-down card you turn over is genuine progress, while a move that merely rearranges face-up cards is often cosmetic. Where two columns both offer a flip, work the one hiding more cards first.
Do not rush cards to the foundations. Aces and twos should go up immediately, but a 3 or 4 left in play often gives a later card somewhere to land. A reliable test: send a card up only when both opposite-coloured cards one rank below it are already accounted for.
An empty column is the most valuable thing on the board, and it is only worth making if you have a king ready to fill it — ideally one with its queen visible. Clearing a column with no king available hands the space back to the stock.
Use undo without guilt when the stock reveals something that changes the picture. Deals vary in difficulty and some three-card draws genuinely cannot be won by anyone, so a loss is not always a mistake — but replaying a decision with better information is how win rates climb.