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Solitaire
Classic Klondike: build all four suits from ace to king on the foundations, using the seven columns to dig out buried cards.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the rules of Klondike Solitaire?
Seven columns are dealt with one to seven cards, only the top card face up, and the other 24 cards form the stock. In the columns you build downward in alternating colors — a red 6 on a black 7 — and you may move a whole face-up run at once. Only a king (or a run starting with a king) can fill an empty column. The four foundations are built upward by suit from ace to king. When a face-down card is uncovered it turns over automatically. You win when all 52 cards are on the foundations.
What is the difference between Draw 1 and Draw 3?
In Draw 1 each tap on the stock turns over one card, so every card in the stock is reachable on every pass. In Draw 3 three cards are turned at once and only the top one of the three is playable, so cards can stay locked beneath others until the order shifts — which makes it the harder and more traditional version. Both modes here allow unlimited passes through the stock.
How is the score calculated?
It follows the Windows Solitaire standard scoring: +5 for moving a card from the waste to a column, +10 for any card placed on a foundation, +5 for each face-down card turned over, −15 for moving a card back off a foundation, and −100 each time you turn the waste back over in Draw 1 (Draw 3 recycles are free). The timer costs 2 points every 10 seconds, the score never drops below zero, and a win in over 30 seconds earns a bonus of 700,000 divided by your time in seconds. Undo reverses the points from the move it takes back.
When does the Auto-complete button appear?
Only when every card left in the columns is face up and the game checks that playing cards to the foundations — drawing from the stock where needed — really does finish it. In Draw 3 that check can fail even with everything face up, because a card buried in a group of three may never reach the top; in that case keep playing by hand until it becomes possible.
Is my game saved if I close the page?
Yes. The current deal, your undo history, score, moves and time are saved in your browser’s localStorage after every move, so reopening the page on the same device resumes where you left off. Wins and your best score and time for each draw mode are kept there too. The clock pauses while the tab is hidden.
About this tool
This is Klondike, the version of solitaire most people simply call Solitaire — the one that shipped with Windows and taught a generation to use a mouse. Every deal is shuffled on your device with the browser’s cryptographic random number generator, so any order of the 52 cards is equally likely. Not every Klondike deal can be won; computer studies suggest roughly 80% of Draw 3 deals could be won by a player who could see every card, and far fewer are won in practice, so a lost game is often the deal rather than you. Restart replays the exact same deal from the beginning if you want another try at it.
The table is sized to your screen, so all seven columns fit side by side even on a 360-pixel-wide phone. You can play the way you prefer: drag cards with a mouse or a finger, or tap a card and then tap its destination. While a card is selected or being dragged, every pile it could legally go to is outlined, and a dropped card lands on the legal pile it overlaps most. Illegal moves are simply refused and the card slides back. On a keyboard, Tab moves between playable cards, Enter selects and places them, D draws from the stock, Escape clears a selection and Ctrl+Z undoes.
A few habits win more games. Turn over face-down cards whenever you have the choice, and favor the columns with the most hidden cards, since those hold the cards you are missing. Don’t empty a column unless you have a king ready to move into it, and think twice before moving a king into a space when you have more than one to choose from — pick the one whose color matches the queen you can play next. Resist moving every card to the foundations as soon as possible: a low red card on a foundation may be the only place a black card could have gone in the columns.
Undo is unlimited, so it is a genuine tool rather than a single safety net — you can take back a whole line of play to try a different choice, and the score rolls back with it. Your game, undo history and statistics are stored only in this browser, and the page never needs a connection once it has loaded.
Updated · Novpix LLC