How to play Klondike Solitaire
- The goal: build all four foundations (top right) from ace up to king, one suit each. Get every card there and you win.
- On the seven tableau columns, stack cards downward in alternating colors — a red 9 on a black 10. Tap a card to send it somewhere useful automatically, or drag it (with everything stacked on it) exactly where you want.
- Turning a face-down card over is progress; an empty column takes only a king. Stuck? Tap the stock (top left) to flip more cards — Draw 1 flips one, Draw 3 flips three with only the top one playable, and the pack recycles endlessly.
- Undo is unlimited, a hint is one tap away (hinted wins don't set best times), and once nothing is face-down the Finish button sweeps everything home — with the bouncing cards you remember.
- Not every deal can be won — about four in five can, and that's real Klondike. The redeal button starts a fresh shuffle; your game auto-saves, so a closed tab just means "continue later". The Daily deals the same cards to everyone; win it to build a streak.
A little background
Patience games crossed from the Baltic salons into every card drawer in the world during the 1800s, and the version dealt seven columns wide picked up the name Klondike during the 1890s gold rush — supposedly the game prospectors killed the dark winters with. A century later it became the most-played computer game in history: Microsoft shipped it with Windows 3.0 in 1990 (intern Wes Cherry wrote it, famously unpaid) to teach a generation how to drag and drop a mouse — and its bouncing-card victory cascade became one of gaming's great celebrations.
This version keeps all of it: the same rules, Draw 1 and Draw 3, classic scoring, the green felt, and yes — the cascade. It adds what the desktop never had: a shared daily deal the whole family plays on the same cards, unlimited undo, honest hints, and best win times saved on your device. Free, no ads, works offline once loaded.