FreeCell
Every card face up from the first deal.
How to play
Build the four piles on the right from ace to king, one suit in each. On the table, stack cards in descending order, alternating red and black. The four cells on the left hold one card each, of any rank, and only a king can fill an empty column.
Tap a card and then tap where it goes. Tap the same card twice to send it to its pile when it is ready. A run travels only as far as the free space allows: one card for every empty cell, doubled for every empty column. Undo takes back a move, and Auto finishes the hand once most of the pack is home.
FreeCell solitaire online, free, every card face up
FreeCell deals all fifty two cards face up, so nothing is hidden and every hand is a puzzle rather than a gamble. Eight piles on the table, four free cells, four foundations. You win when all four foundations are complete. Just open the page and start playing, no account, no download.
The rules, and the one number that decides a move
Eight tableau columns, four of seven cards and four of six. Four free cells at the left, one card each, any rank you like. Four foundations at the top, built up by suit from the ace to the king, and you win the game when all fifty two cards are home on them. Send an ace to its foundation the moment one comes free.
On the table you build down in alternating red and black, a red six onto a black seven, and only a king fills a column you have emptied. You may move one card at a time, which is the rule that matters, because a long run only travels when the game has somewhere to put the cards it is carrying.
So the number to watch is this: one card for every empty cell, plus one, doubled for every empty column. That is how many you can shift in one go. Empty a pile early. Keep a cell open, and park a card in one only when you know how it gets out again.
The one you remember from Windows
Most people who know FreeCell know it from an old Windows machine. We cannot speak for what Microsoft ships today, and we cannot put that little program back on your computer. What we can do is deal the same game here: the same eight piles, the same four cells, no levels, no daily challenge, no coins and no level standing between you and the next hand.
It is a web page, so there is nothing to download and no app to keep updated. Tap a card and then tap where it goes. There is no drag layer in FreeCell, which sounds like a limitation and is the opposite on a phone, where a long drag across eight piles is the worst part of every other solitaire game.
We do not promise you a winnable deal
You will read a lot about FreeCell deals being solvable, usually with a famous exception. We do not number our deals and we do not filter them: every hand is a straight shuffle, so we will not tell you that all of them can be won.
What we will tell you is that FreeCell hides nothing. Klondike buries half the pack in a stock you have to turn over and hope; here every card is face up from the first second. A hand you lose is one you played wrong, and that is a better complaint than a bad stock.
The buttons, and what free means here
New deals again. Undo steps back through the last thirty moves. Auto appears once forty of the fifty two cards are home and finishes the rest for you. Moves, score and time sit along the top, with a fullscreen button on the end. On a keyboard, ctrl and z undo, ctrl and n deal a new hand, and escape drops the card you picked up.
It is free. You might see an ad now and then, and we will try to keep them discreet. Nothing is saved between visits, because there is no account to save it to: close the tab and the hand is gone.
FreeCell is one of six solitaire games here, beside Klondike, Spider, Yukon, Pyramid and TriPeaks. The card games on the other shelf need a friend and a link.
Questions people ask
Is there a free FreeCell game with no download?
This one. Just open the page and start playing: nothing to install, nothing to update, no account. It plays the same on a laptop, a phone or a tablet, since it is a web page rather than an app, and the hand is already dealt when it loads.
Where can I play the classic FreeCell game online?
Here, and classic is the point. This is a simple FreeCell: eight piles, four cells, four foundations, and nothing bolted on the side. No levels, no badges, no daily challenge and no profile. Press New, and the fifty two cards go out face up in front of you again.
Is the original Microsoft FreeCell still available?
We cannot speak for what Microsoft ships now, and we cannot give you back the copy that came with an old computer. We can deal you the same game in a browser tab, with the same eight piles and four cells, free and with no account in the way.
What is the trick to FreeCell?
Empty a column early and keep a cell free. The number of cards you may shift at once is one for every empty cell, plus one, doubled for every empty column, so space is the only real currency in FreeCell solitaire. Everything else follows from that.