Solitaire Games

These are one-player games where you clear or sort cards, or tiles in the Mahjong version. The games differ in layout and in the rule for moving cards: building down by suit, adding pairs to 13, or playing one rank higher or lower.

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• Aces Up Solitaire — Deal a card onto each of four piles and discard lower cards of the same suit. Leave only the four aces to win.
• Canfield Solitaire — Build all four foundations up in suit from the starting rank. Play the 13-card reserve out, and the columns fill themselves.
• Clock Solitaire — Put each turned-up card under its pile on the clock face. Turn up all 52 before the fourth king appears to win.
• Crescent Solitaire — Move the top cards of the sixteen piles onto the Ace foundations (up) and King foundations (down) of their suit, building piles up or down in suit.
• Forty Thieves Solitaire — Move all 104 cards to the eight foundations. Build down by suit in the ten columns and play the stock one card at a time.
• FreeCell Solitaire — All 52 cards are face up. Use the four free cells and empty columns to move every card to the foundations, Ace to King.
• Golf Solitaire — Play each column's top card one rank higher or lower than the foundation card, and clear all 35 cards before the stock runs out.
• Klondike Solitaire — Build four suits from Ace to King. Tap a card to move it, drag runs between columns, and draw from the stock when you are stuck.
• Mahjong Solitaire — Click two matching free tiles to remove them. A tile is free when nothing lies on it and its left or right side is open.
• Pyramid Solitaire — Remove pairs of free cards that add up to 13 — Kings go alone — and clear all 28 cards of the pyramid.
• Scorpion Solitaire — Build down by suit, moving any face-up card together with the cards on it. Complete all four suits from King to Ace to win.
• Spider Solitaire — Build King-to-Ace runs in the same suit to clear all 104 cards. Choose 1, 2 or 4 suits.
• TriPeaks Solitaire — Play an uncovered card one rank higher or lower than the waste card, suit doesn't matter, and clear all 28 cards from the three peaks.
• Yukon Solitaire — All 52 cards are dealt at the start. Move any face-up card with the cards on it, and build the four foundations from Ace to King.