Solitaire
Also known as Klondike, Klondike Solitaire and Patience
Klondike, the patience game most people mean by Solitaire. Move every card to the four foundations, each built ace to king in one suit. Tap a card to pick it up and every legal destination lights up, so you spend the round thinking rather than hunting.
How it works
- Move every card to the four foundations, each built from ace to king in one suit.
- Tap a card to pick it up, then tap where it should go. Every legal destination lights up while you hold it.
- Tableau piles build downwards in alternating colours — a red six goes on a black seven.
- Only a king may move into an empty tableau column.
- Deals are shuffled, so not every one can be won. Give up the deal from the ⋯ menu to take a fresh one.
The same rules are shown inside the app, on the puzzle’s overview screen — one tap opens the difficulty choice and how to play together, so you never have to go looking for them.
Good if you want…
- The longest sit-down game in the app
- Cards rather than grids
- Something to do with half an hour
Solitaire in Winters Puzzles
Solitaire is one of 31 puzzles in Winters Puzzles, so it sits alongside Spider and everything else in the app rather than being a download of its own. It counts towards your stats and streak like any other puzzle. It is not one of the puzzle types included in Pip’s dailies.
Play Solitaire.
Free on iPhone and iPad, with 30 other puzzles alongside it. Or play it in your browser — no download, nothing to sign up for.
