Classic Klondike solitaire with turn 1 or turn 3, unlimited undo, hints that follow a winning line when the solver finds one, and a daily deal. Most deals are checked by a solver before you see them. There is no app, no sign-up and no interstitial before play; it works offline after the first visit and can be played entirely from the keyboard.
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Klondike rewards patience more than speed. Most lost games are lost early, by using the stock too soon or sending cards up before the tableau is ready. Undo is unlimited, so when a choice is close, try one line and then the other.
Before each draw, look for every move on the board itself: a run that can join another column, a card that uncovers a face-down card. Draw when the board is out of good moves, not by reflex. In Turn 3 this matters even more, because each pass shows you only every third card.
The 21 face-down cards are where games are won or lost. Prefer the move that turns a card over, and prefer the column with the most hidden cards: the seventh column hides six and rarely clears itself. Shuffling face-up cards between columns is worth it only if it sets up an uncovering move.
An empty column accepts only a king, so clearing one is useful when a king is waiting, ideally a king sitting on top of face-down cards. Clearing a column with no king in sight wastes tempo. When you can choose which king to move in, pick the one whose colour fits the queen you can reach next.
Aces and twos can always go up. After that, a card on a foundation can no longer hold a card of the other colour on the tableau. A good rule is to keep foundations roughly level: send up a 5 only when the 4s of the other colour are already up or no longer needed. If you did send one too early, you can bring a foundation card back down, at a cost of 15 points.
Before a deal is shown, a built-in solver tries to win it for the draw setting you chose, within a fixed budget of 8,000 search positions. If it cannot prove the first deal, the game tries up to three more deals derived from the same code and gives you the first one it proves. Proven deals show "Deal: Winnable" in the header. In our tests about 19 deals in 20 come out proven for both Turn 1 and Turn 3.
When none of the four candidates is proven, you get the first one marked "Not guaranteed". It may still be winnable: the search is kept small so deals appear quickly. The result is the same on every device.
Card games for one player, called patience in Britain and solitaire in America, are recorded in Europe from the late 18th century, and collections of patience games were widely published during the 19th. Klondike takes its name from the Klondike gold rush in north-western Canada in the 1890s. Personal computers turned it into one of the most played card games in the world, and for many people "solitaire" simply means Klondike.
The daily solitaire is a Turn 1 deal that is the same for everyone and changes at midnight UTC. Solving it keeps your streak going, and the last 30 days stay open in the archive.
The timer starts on your first move and pauses when the page is hidden. Stats are kept per variant in your browser: games played, games won, win rate, best and average time, and best score. Undo and redo are unlimited, and Auto-complete counts as one step.
The first two hints in each game are free. When ads are switched on later, further hints offer a short ad or a 30-second wait instead; the game never forces either. Every deal has a puzzle code such as A7K3Q. Add it to the address as ?p=A7K3Q, or share the plain-text result from the win panel, and anyone can replay the same deal.
Cards scale with the screen so all seven columns fit a 360-pixel phone, and every pile can be reached and played with the arrow keys, Enter and a few letters. Tidy Puzzles runs entirely in your browser: there is no app to install, no account to create and no interstitial before you can play. After the first visit the game also works offline, because each puzzle is generated on your device from a seed. Every board can be played with the keyboard alone, on a phone or a desktop, and your stats and unfinished puzzles stay in this browser rather than on a server.
Build four foundations, one per suit, from ace to king. On the seven tableau columns, stack cards downward in alternating colours, move runs between columns and turn over hidden cards as you uncover them. Draw from the stock when you run out of moves.
Klondike is the solitaire game most people mean by the word. Solitaire (or patience) is the family of one-player card games; FreeCell and Spider are other members.
Turn 1 draws one card from the stock at a time, so every card is reachable on each pass. Turn 3 draws three and only the top one is playable, which makes the game harder and more about planning.
No. Some Klondike deals cannot be won however you play. Here a solver checks each deal first and shows "Winnable" when it finds a win; about 19 deals in 20 are proven.
As many times as you like. On Turn 1 the first pass back through the waste is free and later ones cost 100 points; on Turn 3 each one costs 20.
Yes. Arrow keys move between piles, Enter or Space selects and places cards, Shift with Up or Down changes how many cards you take, F sends a card up, D draws and A runs Auto-complete.
Yes. After your first visit the game is cached, and unfinished games resume where you left them.
Draw one card at a time: the friendlier Klondike.
Draw three at a time for a harder, more tactical game.
One winnable-checked deal a day, the same for everyone.
Every card face up and four free cells; nearly pure skill.
Two decks and ten columns, with one, two or four suits.
All three solitaire games on one page.
Every daily on the site, with streaks.
Unique-solution grids with hints that name the technique.
Last updated 2026-09-27. Written and maintained by the Tidy Puzzles team; puzzles are generated on your device. How it works.