Play Solitaire — Free

What is Solitaire?

Solitaire — known to most players as Klondike, and as Patience across much of Europe — is the single-player card game that has kept people quiet company for well over a hundred years. You start with a shuffled standard 52-card deck dealt into three zones: a face-down stock with a waste beside it, four empty foundations, and seven tableau columns fanned out below. The aim is simple to state and satisfying to reach — move every card up to the foundations, each built from Ace to King in a single suit, until all 52 cards are home.

The game rose to fame on early home computers, where a free copy shipped with millions of machines and turned a coffee-break pastime into a global habit. Its enduring appeal is the mix of luck and control: the shuffle sets the challenge, but careful sequencing decides the outcome. Every deal is a fresh, self-contained puzzle, so a round fits neatly into a spare minute or a long, unhurried afternoon. On vygam it plays instantly in your browser — no download, no sign-up — with tap-to-move controls that work as smoothly on a phone as on a laptop, plus an undo button so you can experiment without fear.

How to Play

Tap a face-up card to pick it up along with the ordered run beneath it, then tap a destination to drop it. A move is blocked and simply won't happen when:

• you try to place a card on a tableau card of the same colour, or one that isn't exactly one rank higher;
• you move any card other than a King onto an empty tableau column;
• you send a card to a foundation out of order — wrong suit, or skipping or repeating a rank;
• you try to lift a group of cards that isn't a clean descending, alternating-colour run.

Because the shuffle is random, a deal can occasionally stall with no legal move left. That isn't the end — tap Undo to rewind your last moves and try a different order, or start a fresh New game whenever you like.

Solitaire Tips & Strategy

Winning at Klondike is less about luck than it looks. A few simple habits will turn frustrating dead ends into steady, satisfying clears.

1. Free your face-down cards first

   The hidden cards in the tableau are what really block you. Before anything else, prefer moves that expose and flip a face-down card, especially in your tallest columns — every card you turn over adds new options, while shuffling face-up cards around achieves nothing on its own.

2. Don't rush every card to the foundations

   It is tempting to send low cards up the moment you can, but a black four still on the tableau might be exactly what you need to park a red three. Keep a card or two in reserve on the columns and only bank a card when it can't help a build below.

3. Think twice before emptying a column

   An empty column is powerful — but only a King can fill it. Clearing a column with no King ready to move can strand you, so line up a King (and ideally the run beneath it) before you vacate the space.

4. Work the waste and use Undo to plan

   Draw-one lets you cycle the whole deck, so scan the waste for cards that unlock a build before you commit. When you're unsure which order is best, make a move and watch what opens up — the unlimited Undo means you can always step back and choose the stronger line.

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