There are plenty of other styles of the game with names like accordian, clock, colorado, florentine solitaire, flower garden, labyrinth, penguin and triple peaks solitaire.

The most popular solitaires are klondike, freecell, spider, golf, pyramid and yukon. There are more kinds of single player solitaire than all other card games together. In England this one player card game is known as patience, while Solitaire is the American name.The aim of the game in klondike solitaire is to build all four suits up from Ace to King in separate piles at the top right corner.The topmost card on the discard stack can be dragged to a tableau column if the topmost one on the tableau pile is an alternate color and an immediately higher rank, for example, the 6 of clubs can be dragged to the top of the 7 of diamonds or the 7 of hearts. The four foundations are initially left empty.īefore moving to the foundations, the cards can be placed on the tableau piles.

One upturned card is dealt to the top of each tableau column, then three upturned cards will be dealt to the discard stack and the remaining downturned cards become the stock, which is placed at the top left corner next to the discard stack. The game starts with seven tableau columns containing an ascending number of downturned cards from left to right. In this classic patience game, you are given a deck of 52 standard playing cards, and your task is to move all of them to four foundations at the top right corner by suit from Ace to King.

Play free solitaire spider online