Play Klondike Patience Online for Free

Play Klondike Patience online with Turn 1 or Turn 3 rules. The game starts in your browser with no installation or account required, and includes Undo, hints, score and move tracking, and a daily challenge. Klondike is often called simply Patience in the UK and Solitaire in North America.

Klondike Patience at a glance

• Pack: one standard pack of 52 playing cards
• Tableau: seven columns with some cards face down
• Goal: build four foundations by suit from Ace to King
• Draw rules: choose Turn 1 or Turn 3
• Controls: drag or click cards, ask for a hint, or undo a move

Turn 1 and Turn 3

Turn 1

Turn over one card at a time from the stock. This gives more direct access to the waste pile and is a practical mode for learning the layout and movement rules.

Turn 3

Turn over three cards at a time, but play only the top card of the waste. Access to the stock is more restrictive, so the order in which cards are used matters more.

How to play Klondike Patience

The initial deal

Deal 28 cards into seven tableau columns. The first column contains one card, the second two, and so on until the seventh contains seven. Only the top card in each column is face up. The remaining 24 cards form the stock.

Tableau rules

• Build down by rank while alternating red and black cards.
• Move a correctly ordered sequence together when its first card has a legal destination.
• Turn over a face-down card when it becomes the top card of a column.
• Only a King, alone or at the head of a sequence, may enter an empty column.

Stock, waste and foundations

• Use the stock to turn one or three cards, depending on the selected mode.
• Only the exposed top card of the waste is available to play.
• Start each foundation with an Ace and build upwards in the same suit to King.
• You win when all 52 cards are in the four foundations.

Practical strategy tips

• Check the tableau before turning another card from the stock.
• Prioritise moves that reveal face-down cards.
• Do not empty a column unless a useful King can occupy the space.
• Keep both red and black cards available for building longer sequences.
• Delay some foundation moves if the card is still needed to rearrange the tableau.
• Use Undo to compare different lines when a position becomes blocked.

Other Patience games

• Spider Solitaire: use two packs and complete same-suit runs from King to Ace.
• FreeCell: all cards are visible and four free cells provide temporary storage.
• Mahjong Solitaire: clear matching free tiles from a layered layout.

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