Solitaire
Turn the stock, build the four foundations, and play what the deal gives you.
How to play
Build the four top piles from ace to king, one suit in each. On the table, stack cards in descending order, alternating red and black. Only a king can fill an empty column.
Drag a card or a face-up stack to a highlighted pile, or tap a card and then its destination. Tap the face-down deck for more cards. D1 draws one card; D3 draws three. Undo takes back a move, and Auto finishes the hand when every remaining card can go home.
Free solitaire online, draw one or draw three
Solitaire here is free to play online, in a browser tab, with no account and no download. It deals Klondike: seven columns, four foundations, and the D1 and D3 buttons switch between drawing one card and drawing three. Undo takes back a move, and Auto finishes the hand once the table is face up.
The rules, if it has been a while
Four foundation piles at the top, one for each suit, and you build every one of them up from the ace to the king: spades and clubs on the black side, hearts and diamonds on the red. Seven tableau columns below them, built downward in alternating red and black, so a red six takes a black five. Only a king moves into an empty column.
The whole game runs on a single deck, and you win when all fifty two cards are home on the four foundations. Patience is the older name for the family. Klondike is the exact name for this one, the version Microsoft put on every office computer in the nineties, which is why most people now just call it solitaire.
That is the entire rule set. The skill is in what order you empty the columns, which card you leave face down a turn longer, and whether you play the waste pile out before you turn the stock again.
Draw one or draw three, and which to pick
The two small buttons over the table are D1 and D3. D1 turns one card off the stock, D3 turns three and lets you play only the top one. Draw one is the version most people mean by solitaire and the one to start on. Draw three is the harder game, in our opinion the better one, because the cards you want spend most of the hand buried two deep.
Switching deals a fresh hand, so the buttons ask first if you are already a few moves in. The stock turns over as often as you like at either setting. With draw one, no card in the waste is ever out of reach, and the order is the only thing left between you and the four aces.
We do not sort the deals. Every hand is a straight shuffle of fifty two cards, picked by nothing, so a hand may turn out to be unwinnable no matter how well you play it. Sites that promise a winnable deal are filtering the shuffle. We would rather you knew, and New costs nothing.
What the buttons along the top do
New deals again. Undo steps back through the last thirty moves, which is enough to walk out of a bad run without rewinding the whole hand. Auto only lights up when the stock and the waste are empty and every card on the table is face up, because from there the rest of the hand is arithmetic rather than a decision.
Moves, score and time run along the same strip. A card to a foundation is ten points, turning one face up is five, and pulling a card back off a foundation costs you ten. The clock starts on the deal. Nobody is keeping a table of scores, so the only person that number is for is you.
On a keyboard, ctrl and z undo, ctrl and n deal again, and escape drops whatever card you picked up. There is a fullscreen button on the right of the strip when you want the table and nothing else.
Drag it, or tap it twice
Klondike is the one game on this shelf you can drag. Pick a card up and pull it, or a face up run of cards, and drop it where it goes. If dragging annoys you, click or tap the card and then the pile you want. Both ways work at the same table, which matters on a laptop where a trackpad makes a long drag a chore.
Tapping the same card twice sends it home to its foundation when the foundation is ready for it, and that is the fastest way to clear the end of a hand. It is the move worth learning on a phone, where the table scales down to the screen and dragging is the fiddly option.
Free, and what free means here
No account, no download, no install, no email. Open the page and a hand is already dealt. It is free, and you might see an ad now and then.
The one thing to know before you close the tab: nothing is saved. There is no account to hang a half finished hand on, so a game you walk away from is gone and the next visit deals a new one. That suits solitaire better than it suits most things. It is a game you finish in the time you have.
Connected by Cards is aiming to eventually have all the games you can play with a deck, or a few decks, of cards. Klondike is the one everybody means by solitaire. Five more solitaire games sit beside it on the same shelf, and the card games on the other shelf take a second person and one link.
Questions people ask
Is there a free online game of Solitaire?
This one. Open the page and Klondike is dealt, free, in the browser you are already using. Nothing to download and nobody to sign up to. Draw one or draw three from the D1 and D3 buttons, undo a move you regret, and press New whenever the hand stops going anywhere.
Where can I play simple solitaire for free?
Here, and simple is the whole idea: seven tableau columns, four foundations, a stock and a clock. No level map, no daily streak, no coins to collect and no account. Set it to draw one for the plainest version of the game, and the table is the entire product.
Is there a free classic Solitaire game that doesn't have ads?
We will not promise that. There are no ads on this table today, and the plan is occasional ones we will try to keep discreet, so saying otherwise would be a promise we might break. What we can say is that playing costs nothing, and no card is locked behind a payment.
Which version of Solitaire is best?
Klondike draw one if you want the game to give a little, draw three if you want it to argue back. FreeCell is the better puzzle of the two, because every card is face up from the first deal, so the hand is decided by how well you play it rather than by the shuffle.