Klondike has face-down cards and a stock you draw from 1 or 3 at a time; columns build down in alternating colors and foundations build up by suit. Spider has two decks and ten columns, and you can only move runs of the same suit as a block; completed King-to-Ace runs leave the table. In FreeCell everything is face up from the start and you use four free cells to park cards, so planning matters more than luck.
Solitaire
Solitaire Online: Klondike, Spider and FreeCell
Klondike, Spider and FreeCell in one place, with numbered deals, a deal of the day, hints and unlimited undo
Klondike, Spider and FreeCell in one place
Solitaire is the family of card games you play alone. This page has the three most popular ones in one place. In Klondike, the classic, you build seven columns in descending order and alternating colors and send cards up by suit, Ace to King, to the four foundations; you can draw 1 or 3 cards at a time. Spider uses two decks and ten columns: the goal is to build King-to-Ace runs in a single suit, which then leave the table, and playing with 1, 2 or 4 suits changes the difficulty a lot. In FreeCell all 52 cards start face up and the four free cells are your room to maneuver, which is why almost every deal can be won. Every deal has a number (FreeCell follows the classic numbering, so deal 1 here is deal 1 in any compatible FreeCell), there is a deal of the day that is the same for everyone, undo is unlimited, the hint looks for a move that really leads to a win, and your game is saved in the browser.
Drag or tap: both work
- Pick the variant at the top (Klondike, Spider or FreeCell) and its option: draw 1 or 3, or 1, 2 or 4 suits. Each variant keeps its own game in progress.
- Drag a card or run to its destination, or tap it and then tap the destination. Double-tap a card to send it to a foundation or the best spot. On a keyboard, use the arrows and Enter.
- Use unlimited Undo and Hint when you are stuck. New game lets you draw a random deal, play the deal of the day or type the number of a specific deal.
Sources and references for this tool
These references help contextualize formulas, standards, APIs and limitations used on this page. They do not replace professional validation when a result has legal, financial, medical or operational impact.
- Klondike (solitaire)Wikipedia, Layout, moves, the ways of dealing from the stock (draw 1 or 3, unlimited or limited passes) and the standard scoring (5, 10, 15 and 100 points).
- Spider (solitaire)Wikipedia, Two decks, 54 cards in ten columns and 50 in the stock, dealing only when no column is empty, 1, 2 and 4-suit variants and the 500-point scoring with -1 per move and +100 per run.
- FreeCellWikipedia, Rules, the sequence-move formula (free cells + 1) x 2^(empty columns) and deal 11982 as the only unsolvable one in the classic 32,000.
- Deal cards for FreeCell (classic numbering)Rosetta Code, The linear congruential generator that makes deal number N the same deal N in any compatible FreeCell.