Solitaire — Klondike

Build all four suits from Ace to King. Drag or tap the cards and draw one or three at a time.

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Klondike Solitaire Online — Rules, Scoring and Strategy

How to play Klondike

Seven columns are dealt with the top card face up. Build columns down in alternating red and black, and move a face-up run as one piece. Only a King can fill an empty column. Tap the deck to draw, and build each suit on its foundation from Ace to King. Drag cards with a mouse or finger, or tap a card and then its destination; a double-tap sends a card to its best spot. On a keyboard, D draws and Z undoes.

Strategy that wins more deals

Turn over face-down cards first: the longest columns hide most of the deck. Empty a column only when a King is ready to fill it, and pick that King by the colour of the Queen you want to place next. Do not rush low cards to the foundations while they are still useful as landing spots in the columns.

Draw 1 or Draw 3

Draw 1 is the relaxed table: unlimited passes through the deck and unlimited undo. Draw 3 follows the strict rules of the Pocket Games app: three passes, three undos, and the deal is lost when nothing can move. When every card is face up and the deck is empty, Auto-complete flies the rest home.

Standard scoring

+10 for each card placed on a foundation, +5 for a card moved from the waste to a column, +5 for turning a card over, −15 for taking a card back off a foundation. On Draw 1 every new pass through the deck costs 100 points, the clock takes 2 points every 10 seconds, and a win adds a time bonus of 700,000 divided by your seconds.

Shortcuts that save time

A double-tap or double-click sends a card where it fits best: to a foundation first, otherwise to a column, with occupied columns tried before empty ones. A King that already sits at the bottom of a column is never shuffled into another empty column. You can also lift a whole face-up run with one drag. Once the stock and waste are empty and every card is face up, the Auto-complete button appears and plays the cards home, lowest first.

Random, honest deals

Each deal is shuffled with your browser’s cryptographic random generator: 28 cards go into seven columns of one to seven cards, and the other 24 form the stock. Deals are not pre-checked for a solution, just as with a real deck, so a few of them cannot be won whatever you do. On Draw 1 that simply means starting a new deal; on Draw 3 the game declares the deal lost as soon as no card can move and no passes remain.

Scoring details

The score never drops below zero. The clock penalty of 2 points per 10 seconds runs in both modes, while the 100-point charge for turning the deck over exists only on Draw 1 – on Draw 3 the limited passes are the price instead. The win bonus of 700,000 divided by your time in seconds is paid only when the game lasts at least 30 seconds, so a five-minute win adds about 2,333 points. Undo puts back both the cards and the score they had before the move.

Saved deals and records

The deal in progress is saved in your browser, also when you switch tabs, and Continue deal brings it back exactly as you left it. Best scores are kept separately for Draw 1 and Draw 3, along with your total number of wins. Signed-in players also send each finished deal to the Solitaire leaderboard; as a guest, everything stays on your device.

Other quiet puzzles

Klondike rewards planning a few moves ahead. If you like that feeling, try Sudoku for pure number logic, Minesweeper for careful deduction under pressure, or the memory game to see how many card positions you can keep track of.

Solitaire – FAQ

Can every Solitaire deal be won?

No. Deals are fully random and not filtered, so some Klondike deals have no solution. Draw 1, with unlimited passes and undo, gives you the best chance.

Why did my Draw 3 game end on its own?

In Draw 3 the deal is lost when the stock is empty, no passes are left and no card in the waste or the columns can move anywhere.

Does undo cost points?

Undo itself is free, but it rolls the score back to what it was before the move. On Draw 1 you can undo without limit; on Draw 3 you get three undos per deal.

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