Politaire: Polymorphic Solitaire

Polymorphic Solitaire offers a large collection of different solitaire games playable for free in any modern browser without need for any plugins. Beyond that, it allows you to change the rules of any game and create your own new games, allowing a finite infinity of possible solitaire games.

Currently 535 standard solitaire games are supported by Politaire.

There are an awful lot of solitaire programs availables on the net. Is Politaire the best? Probably not. But it has some unique features:

It allows you more latitude to change the rules of the games than any other solitaire program I know of. In fact, all 535 games are created with different combinations of settings on the mind-bogglingly complex option panel. You can turn any game into any other game just by flipping switches. If you want to invent your own games, Politaire is your playground. Only actual cards give you more flexibility, and you don't want to use those. Real cards have germs.
Does manual shuffling make solitaire games play differently than the full randomization normally used in computer games? Well the difference isn't huge, but it's real. Try it and see. Politaire is able to simulate manual shuffles with settings on the "Deck" tab of the Option panel.
Tired of getting stuck in deal loops when playing Canfield and Klondike? Try out our gallery mode variations of Canfield and Klondike. It's a good way to learn the fine art of stock management. No, I'm not talking about cows.
Politaire has detailed game rules pages for every single game. Admittedly, they are all programmatically generated from the option settings, so they can be a bit robotic in style, but they include links to other rule references on the net, and I actually had to type those in, so I hope you appreciate them.

Politaire is still under active development. More games and more settings are being added. If you notice bugs or want to suggest features, feel free to email the author or visit the Facebook page.

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Have fun.

These games are each among the best known of their type, and provide a sampling of the range of games currently supported by Politaire:

Klondike Solitaire: The world's most famous solitaire game features a triangular tableau where you build down in alternating colors.
Canfield Solitaire: An old Casino game where the house usually wins. It's distinctive features include a reserve and foundations built up from the value of one random card dealt into them.
FreeCell Solitaire: Invented by Paul Alfille, made famous by Microsoft, this game provide four temporary storage cells that can be used to move cards around.
Spider Solitaire: On the 10 tableau piles you can build down regardless of suit, but you can only move single suit sequences. When you click on the stock, one card will be dealt to each tableau pile. Single cards cannot be moved to the foundation, only complete sequences.
Forty and Eight Solitaire: Two decks, forty cards in the tableau, eight foundation piles, building down in the same suit. You can only move single cards. Often it feels like nothing is happening for a long time, and then the game works out after all. A good game for making you feel smart.
Yukon Solitaire: A well-known game with no stock, in which stacks of cards can be moved even if they aren't in sequence.
Accordion Solitaire: This deck compression game was once known as "Idle Year" because it was believed that you could play for a year without winning, but players have now discovered strategies that make it possible to win almost every game.
Baker's Dozen Solitaire: Rearrange the thirteen tableau piles to free up cards for the foundation by moving one card at a time. Often winnable, but takes some planning.
Miss Milligan Solitaire: Starting with one card in each column, build sequences down by alternate color. Deal new cards from the deck into all columns. When the deck is empty, gain a reserve area you can waive a stack of cards into.
Congress Solitaire: This has similarities to Forty and Eight, but spaces in the tableau may only be filled from the waste. This gives the game a very different feel.
Fourteen Out Solitaire: An interesting game in which you remove pairs that add the fourteen.
Pyramid Solitaire: A classic pair-removal game with a triangular tableau.
Flower Garden Solitaire: The six stacks of six cards in the tableau are called "flower beds". You can build down on them in any suit. Instead of stock and waste piles, you have a bouquet of 16 cards, any of which can be played at any time.
Cruel Solitaire: A game where you can redeal the tableau as often as you like, so long as you can take off at least one card between deals.
Tournament Solitaire: A two-deck game where no building is allowed on the tableau, and you must rely on eight cells to move your cards to the foundation.
Penguin Solitaire: A satisfying game with seven cells developed by David Parlett where one of the cards you need to start the foundation is always buried at the bottom of the first tableau pile.

The following games are new inventions that first appeared on Politaire.com.

Astrocyte Solitaire: A compressed game of Spider with four cells.
Canfield (Gallery Mode) Solitaire: This is just Canfield with a different user interface: all the cards that would normally start in the stock are fanned out face up, with the ones that would normally be playable if you were going through the stock three at a time automatically raised up to indicate that they are playable.
Love a Duck Solitaire: A Yukon-type game, played on an interlocking tableau.
Jumbo Klondike Solitaire: Klondike played with a six-suit deck.
Mondo Spider Solitaire: A rather arduous double-size eight-suit Spider variant.
Sarlacc Solitaire: A FreeCell variant with a tableau of interlocking columns.
Sevastopol Solitaire: An easier version of Kiev where four tableau piles start with three cards instead of four.
Yakutat Bay Solitaire: A cross between Yukon and Moving Left.

The following can be considered variations on one or more of the core games above. Some are older versions, some are newer.

Ace of Hearts Solitaire: All cards must be built onto a single foundation pile in this Thomas Warfield invention.
Aces and Kings Solitaire: Build up on one foundation, down on the other, but don't build at all on the tableau. Suits don't matter.
Acey and Kingsley Solitaire: A variation of Aces and Kings which starts with an ace or a king dealt to each foundation.
Acme Solitaire: A difficult variation of Canfield where you build in suit, can't move sequences, and only get two passes through the stock. "Acme," the greek word for the zenith, was a popular name for companies who wanted to be listed first in the phone book until the Coyote and Roadrunner ruined it.
Acquaintance Solitaire: A variation of Auld Lang Syne suggested by Michael Keller that adds some interest by allowing two redeals.
Adelaide Solitaire: This two-deck solitaire allows moving unsorted stacks, as in Yukon. It is exactly like Outback, but you get to do two passes through the deck.
Agnes Bernauer Solitaire: A variation on Klondike with seven reserves.
Agnes Sorel Solitaire: A variation on Klondike where cards are dealt directly onto the tableau as in Spider.
Alaska Solitaire: A somewhat more difficult variation of Yukon in which you can build up or down, but must build in the same suit. I think they call it "Alaska" because it is so cool when things work out.
Alexander the Great Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's more challenging variation of Clover Leaf.
Alexandria Solitaire: A three-deck version of Thieves of Egypt invented by Thomas Warfield.
Algiers Solitaire: A three-deck variation of Carthage.
Ali Baba Solitaire: A one-deck variation of Forty and Eight where you can move sequences of cards together instead of just one at a time. With 40 cards in the tableau, you only have 12 cards in your deck which makes for a lot of unsolvable games. But with a bit of luck you can open an empty space in your tableau and then things are likely to go smoothly.
All in a Row Solitaire: A variation of Golf without a stock. Most deals are winnable, but require a lot of advance planning to win.
Alternate Solitaire: A variation of Sir Tommy where the foundations are built in alternate color, half upwards, half downwards.
Alternations Solitaire: A variation of Interchange that has the same 7 by 7 tableau with alternate cards face down, but where you build in alternate colors.
Alternative Solitaire: This relative of Clover Leaf does not allow spaces to be filled, but allows one redeal.
American Canister Solitaire: A difficult variation of Canister with building by alternate colors.
American Toad Solitaire: An easy two-deck variation of Canfield.
Antares Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's combination of FreeCell and Scorpion divides the tableau into two halves, one where we build in alternate colors and move cards by FreeCell rules, one where we build in the same suit and move by Scorpion rules.
Anubis Solitaire: A variation of Double Pyramid with three waste piles.
Ants Solitaire: Like four parallel Golf games
Apophis Solitaire: Pyramid played with three waste piles.
Applegate Solitaire: This game has similarities to both Spider and Yukon, and may be an older version of Scorpion
Arabella Solitaire: An three-deck Spider/Klondike blend similar to Lady Jane by Thomas Warfield.
Arizona Solitaire: An easier varition of Wildflower where you can move sequences regardless of suit.
Assembly Solitaire: Suits don't matter at all in this simple little solitaire game.
Athena Solitaire: A Klondike variation with a rectangular starting tableau in which cards alternate face-up and face-down.
Auld Lang Syne Solitaire: An old solitaire game in which no building is allowed on the tableau. The secret to winning is to get extremely lucky before you abandon the game out of shear boredom or to play a more skill-dependent variation like Sir Tommy instead.
Aunt Mary Solitaire: A difficult Klondike variation where the tableau contains one fewer pile but all cards are face up.
Australian Solitaire: A variation of Klondike that allows non-top cards to be moved (with the cards on top of them) as in Yukon.
Backbone Solitaire: A difficult game of Victorian origin with a forked reserve pile
Baker's Solitaire: A predecessor of FreeCell invented by C. L. Baker. The rules are the same as FreeCell, except that you build down in suit instead of in alternating colors.
Baker's Two-Deck Solitaire: A two-deck version of Baker's games.
Balcony Solitaire: Similar to Canfield, but foundations are built up in alternate colors, reserve cards can only be played to the foundation, and empty spaces are autofilled from the stock.
Barricade A Solitaire: A simple game where we build regardless of suit on both tableau and foundation and which uses a stock but not a waste.
Barricade B Solitaire: An easier, but still very difficult, modification of Block invented by Richard Mechen and Thomas Warfield.
Bastion Solitaire: Fortress with cells.
Bath Solitaire: A FreeCell variant where spaces can only be filled by kings and there are only two cells.
Batsford Solitaire: A two-deck Klondike game with a special reserve that can store up to three kings.
Batsford Again Solitaire: A variation of Batsford with a redeal.
Bavarian Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's easier version of German patience with a few extra tableau columns.
Bear River Solitaire: A Fan variation where you can build up and down in suit, but are limited to three cards per pile.
Beehive Solitaire: In this Straight Fifteens variant, we build and remove stacks of four cards of equal rank.
Beehive (Gallery Mode) Solitaire: This is just Beehive with a different user interface: all the cards that would normally start in the stock are fanned out face up, with the ones that would normally be playable if you were going through the stock three at a time automatically raised up to indicate that they are playable.
Beleaguered Castle Solitaire: A challenging game with simple rules. All cards start dealt face up and you build down regardless of suit, moving only single cards. Somewhat similar to Baker's Dozen.
Beleaguered Fortress Solitaire: A variation of Fortress with a twelve-card reserve from which all cards are playable.
Beetle Solitaire: A variation of Spider where all cards are dealt face up.
Big Apple Solitaire: A difficult variation of New York with three cells instead of three waste piles, but where stacks can be moved.
Big Bertha Solitaire: This two-deck version of King Albert which has 14 reserve cards that are all playable, and a separate foundation pile that you can put all the kings on.
Big Forty Solitaire: A one-deck variant of Forty Thieves that allows stack moves.
Big FreeCell Solitaire: A straight-forward two-deck version of FreeCell.
Big Harp Solitaire: A two-deck Klondike variation that is different than Harp in several ways, without really being that much bigger.
Big Spider Solitaire: A three-deck version of Spider. This is a bit more challenging than Spider Three Deck.
Bisley Solitaire: A game of building up and down on the tableau.
Black Hole Solitaire: Like All in a Row, this is a variation of Golf without a stock. Invented by David Parlett.
Binary Star Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's two-deck version of Black Hole has two foundation piles.
Black Widow Solitaire: An easier variation of Spider where you are allowed to move sequences even if they aren't all of one suit.
Blind Alleys Solitaire: A Klondike variant with a square tableau, differing from Pas Seul only in the number of passes through the deck allowed.
Block Solitaire: A nearly unwinnably difficult two-deck game that gets its name from the fact that it routinely blocks.
Blockade Solitaire: A simple game that starts slow and ends with a flourish.
Block Ten Solitaire: A game of pure luck where you can remove pairs that add to ten, or pairs of face cards, but not tens.
Blondes and Brunettes Solitaire: A variation of Signora where the foundation base card is determined by a card dealt in.
Bobby Solitaire: A variation of Robert with a second foundation pile to make it easier, but not much easier.
Box Fan Solitaire: A Fan variant with building by alternate color.
Boulevard Solitaire: No building on the tableau, three reserve piles, and foundations that build up by twos.
Box Kite Solitaire: Tableaus build up or down, half the foundations build up, half build down.
Brazilian Solitaire: In this two-deck Klondike variant from Brazil you deal to the tableau instead of to a waste pile.
Breakwater Solitaire: An easier variant of Interchange, in which we build regardless of suit.
Brigade Solitaire: An easier variation of Flower Garden with more tableau piles of fewer cards, and aces starting on the foundation.
Brisbane Solitaire: Just like Yukon, but the starting layout is a bit different and you build regardless of suit.
Bristol Solitaire: A game with three waste piles invented by Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith.
British Canister Solitaire: A difficult version of Canister dating back to the 1890's. It resembles American Canister but does not allow stack moves and only kings can fill spaces.
Brown Recluse Solitaire: This Spider variant by Thomas Warfield has a stock and a waste pile. The tableau starts with just one card in each column, but spaces are autofilled from the waste or stock.
Bucket Solitaire: A Canister variation which ends up looking rather like FreeCell without the cells. Naturally, it ends up being rather difficult.
Buffalo Bill Solitaire: In this easy variation of Little Billie, by David Parlett, there are more fans and the reserve cells start empty, but there are no redeals.
Bunker Solitaire: Build up regardless of suit to try to get all cards onto the tableau.
Bureau Solitaire: This game has rules similar to Klondike, except you build the foundation in alternate colors and cannot fill spaces in the tableau.
Busy Aces Solitaire: A fairly easy game dating back to 1939. Twelve tableau stacks of one card each mean you can easily get lots of empty spaces to work with.
Calculation Solitaire: Basically similar to Sir Tommy, but much more complex to play because each foundation pile advances by a different increment.
Canfield Rush Solitaire: A Canfield variant where cards are dealt by threes in the first pass, by twos in the second and one-at-a-time in the last. Easier than standard Canfield, but still a challenging game.
Canister Solitaire: Yet another generic solitaire game, with all cards dealt face up and no stock. This is quite easy when it's not impossible.
Caprice Solitaire: Build up or down in suit and stock deals to the tableau.
Captive Queens Solitaire: An easy and brainless variation of Sixes and Sevens also known as "Quadrille". Automoves default mostly off to give you something to do.
Carlton Solitaire: A difficult two-deck Klondike variation.
Carousel Solitaire: A two-deck game with separate foundations for aces, evens and odds.
Carpet Solitaire: An easy game with twenty reserve piles and no building.
Carthage Solitaire: A two-deck games where you deal to the reserves and build on the tableau. Empty reserves function as cells.
Cassim Solitaire: A version of Ali Baba with a smaller tableau and an infinity of redeals. In the One Thousand and One Nights Cassim was Ali Baba's brother and the leader of the Forty Thieves.
Castile Solitaire: An open variant of Bristol invented by Thomas Warfield.
Castle Mount Solitaire: A three-deck version of Beleaguered Castle invented by Thomas Warfield. Since kings can only be moved to empty spaces or the foundation, opening up some columns is the key to the game, except there are 12 cards in each column that need to be gotten out of the way first.
Castle of Indolence Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's adaptation of a 19th century game first described in George A. Bonaventure's 1932 book of solitaire games. It is two-deck game where 52 cards start on the tableau and another 52 start in the reserve. Suits of cards are completely ignored.
Castle's End Solitaire: A slightly different version of Chessboard with a two-card reserve.
Castles in Spain Solitaire: A variant of Baker's Dozen that allows filling in spaces with any card and where we build in alternate colors.
Cast Out Nines Solitaire: A difficult variation of Deuces or Busy Aces where no cards are already on the foundation and there are only seven tableau piles. Invented by Thomas Warfield.
Ceiling Fan Solitaire: An easier variation of Fan where you build in alternate colors.
Cell Eleven Solitaire: A three-deck version of FreeCell.
Cleopatra Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's variant of Forty Thieves with a pyramid-shaped tableau.
Clover Leaf Solitaire: An easy game invented by Thomas Warfield where you build up or down on the tableau, two foundation piles build up, and two build down.
Challenge FreeCell Solitaire: A version of FreeCell invented by Thomas Warfield where the aces and twos are always at the bottoms of the eight stacks.
Chameleon Solitaire: In case Canfield wasn't hard enough for you, here's a version with only three tableau piles. But you can stack cards regardless of suit, so it'll be OK. Occasionally.
Chateau Solitaire: A two-deck Beleaguered Castle variant.
Chelicera Solitaire: A variation on Scorpion invented by Erik den Hollander in which we fill spaces with three cards from the stock instead of dealing from the stock.
Cheops Solitaire: A variation of Pyramid where you remove pairs of cards with equal or consecutive ranks
Chequers Solitaire: This game has twenty-five tableau piles where you can build up or down, and you build up on half the foundations, and down on the others. It needs a large screen.
Chessboard Solitaire: A more interesting variation of Fortress where you choose the base card.
Chinaman Solitaire: A Klondike variant where we build by different suits.
Chinese Solitaire: This Scorpion variation has a different layout, a smaller stock, and allows cards to be moved to the foundation one at a time.
Chinese FreeCell Solitaire: A version of FreeCell played with only three suits.
Chinese Klondike Solitaire: A three-suit version of Klondike.
Chinese Spider Solitaire: A three-suit version of Spider.
Cicely Solitaire: A variation of Tournament and Kingsdown Eights where you can build up and down on the tableau.
Circle Eight Solitaire: Move all cards to the tableau to win this game, but you can't move a card once it is on the tableau.
Citadel Solitaire: An easier variation of Beleaguered Castle where cards are moved to the foundation during the deal.
Colonel Solitaire: A variation of Signora invented by Thomas Warfield where we built in the same suit instead of alternating colors.
Colorado Solitaire: A game where cards may be stacked arbitrarily on 20 tableau piles. Usually winnable, but requires some planning.
Contradance Solitaire: A variation of Sixes and Sevens that is just as brainless as Captive Queens, but requires vastly more luck to ever win.
Cornelius Solitaire: A version of Forty and Eight that allows non-top cards to be played (moving whatever cards are on top of them along with them) as in Yukon.
Corners Solitaire: This completely mindless variation on Czarina allows no building on the tableau, but allows three passes through the stock.
Corner Suite Solitaire: This rather easy game resembles a one deck version of Congress, except that the tableau starts empty.
Corona Solitaire: A game similar to Forty and Eight where spaces are autofilled from the waste and stock. The best way to win seems to be to get lucky.
Countess Solitaire: A Canfield variation with four reserves.
Courtyard Solitaire: A variation of Busy Aces which increases the difficulty by autofilling empty tableau spaces the waste and stock.
Coyote Solitaire: An slightly easier, but still difficult, variation of Acme in which sequences can be moved. Named after Acme's best customer.
Crescent Solitaire: A bidirectional building game where you can rotate cards in the stacks three times.
Crescent Four Solitaire: An easier variation of Crescent that allows one extra rotation.
Criss Cross Solitaire: A variation of Simple Pairs that requires a very large dose of pure luck to win.
Cromwell Solitaire: A two-deck game with 26 tableau piles and a draw. Requires planning.
Czarina Solitaire: A variation on Four Seasons where spaces are filled automatically from the stock.
Darwin Solitaire: A three-deck version of Australian Solitaire, which is a cross between Yukon and Klondike.
Demon Solitaire: An two-deck version of Canfield, not quite as easy as Double Canfield. "Demon" is the standard English name for Canfield. We follow Thomas Warfield in fostering confusion by using the name for this different game.
Demon Fan Solitaire: A very easy game where you build down in alternate colors, and are allowed six redeals.
Demons and Thieves Solitaire: In this game, the tableau is split into two halves, one half where you play by Canfield rules, and one half where you play by Forty Thieves rules.
Deuces and Queens Solitaire: A variation on Aces and Kings where building is allowed on the tableau.
Deuces Solitaire: A more difficult variation of Busy Aces with fewer tableau piles.
Diavolo Solitaire: A Klondike variant with four foundation piles that are built one card at a time, while the other four need completed sequences.
Dieppe Solitaire: A variation on Congress where stacks may be moved, blanks can be filled by any card, and three rows of cards are dealt initially. Almost every game seems winnable without any great difficulty.
Dimes Solitaire: A variation on Deuces with fewer tableau piles.
Diplomat Solitaire: A variation on Congress or Forty and Eight.
Dnieper Solitaire: Exactly like Kiev but slightly easier because kings can be played on aces.
Dorothy Solitaire: Another brainless variation of Captive Queens and Sixes and Sevens with separate foundations for odds, evens and face cards.
Double Aces and Kings Solitaire: A four-deck version of Aces and Kings invented by Thomas Warfield.
Double Canfield Solitaire: An two-deck version of Canfield, much much easier than the original game.
Double Dot Solitaire: An easy game where you build up by twos on the foundation, and down by twos on the tableau.
Double Easthaven Solitaire: A two-deck version of Easthaven.
Double FreeCell Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's two-deck version of FreeCell.
Double Fourteens Solitaire: An two-deck version of Fourteen Out.
Double Gold Rush Solitaire: A two-deck version of Gold Rush.
Double Jane Solitaire: An four-deck Spider/Klondike, similar to Lady Jane.
Double Klondike Solitaire: A two-deck version of Klondike. This game is almost always winnable.
Double Limited Solitaire: A four-deck version of Limited. A large screen will be needed.
Double Minerva Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's two-deck version of Minerva.
Double Pyramid Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's two-deck version of Pyramid.
Double Rail Solitaire: A Forty Thieves variation where we build regardless of suit and can move stacks.
Double Russian Solitaire: A two-deck version of Russian solitaire.
Double Scorpion Solitaire: An easy two-deck variation of Scorpion where all cards are already dealt in the beginning.
Double Sea Towers Solitaire: A two-deck version of the FreeCell variation known as Sea Towers.
Double Signora Solitaire: A four-deck version of Signora invented by Thomas Warfield.
Double Storehouse Solitaire: A two-deck version of Straight Fifteens.
Doublet Cell Solitaire: A combination between Doublets and FreeCell.
Double Trigon Solitaire: A two-deck version of Trigon or maybe a version of Double Klondike with building in suit. I suppose it depends on how you look at it.
Double Yukon Solitaire: A two-deck variation of Yukon
Doublets Solitaire: A similar game to Simple Pairs. You remove pairs of cards of the same rank. The only way to bring any strategy into the game is by using the undo button.
Dover Solitaire: This two-deck version of Bristol still has three waste piles, but foundation piles must be built up in suit and empty tableau spaces may be filled, though only from the waste.
Dragon Solitaire: A variation of Chinese where you build in the same suit.
Easthaven Solitaire: A one-deck cross between Spider and Klondike.
Eclipse Solitaire: A variant of Waning Moon, where sequence moves are allowed and cards are dealt to the tableau instead of to a waste pile.
Eight by Eight Solitaire: Build regardless of suit on an 8x8 tableau to get your cards onto the eight foundations.
Eighteens Solitaire: A game where you remove singleton aces, or sets consisting of a face card with three other cards that add to eighteen.
Eight Off Solitaire: A FreeCell variation with more cells, but where you can only build down in the same suit
Eight On Solitaire: A harder variation of Eight Off where the aces start on the bottoms of the piles. Invented by Thomas Warfield.
Eights Down Solitaire: A Busy Aces variant invented by Thomas Warfield, where the foundations build down from eight.
Eighty Thieves Solitaire: A very difficult four-deck version of Forty Thieves by Thomas Warfield. Needs a large screen.
Elba Solitaire: A variant of Forty Thieves with Klondike-like building rules.
Eleven Triangle Solitaire: A somewhat easier version of Triangle where we remove pairs that add to eleven.
Elevens Solitaire: A set removal sets of cards adding to 15 or sets containing ten through king.
Eliminator Solitaire: An easy Golf-like game with six foundations.
Emperor Solitaire: A more difficult version of Rank and File where only single cards can be moved..
Empress of Italy Solitaire: A four-deck version of Blondes and Brunettes invented by Thomas Warfield.
Endless Harp Solitaire: A variation of Big Harp which allows unlimited redeals.
Ephemeral FreeCell Solitaire: Ephemeral FreeCell is like standard FreeCell, except that one of the cells will vanish after it's first use. Michael Keller invented this idea. You can experiment with different numbers of ephemeral cells.
Escalator Solitaire: Deconstruct a pyramid by building up or down on a single foundation pile. This game is also known by the more descriptive name "Pyramid Golf."
Eternal Triangle Solitaire: A fairly hard two-deck Klondike variation.
Even and Odd Solitaire: A one-deck version of Boulevard.
Exiled Kings Solitaire: A more difficult variation of Citadel where spaces can only be filled by kings.
Fair Maids Solitaire: A variation of Will o the Wisp where we build in alternate colors.
Falling Star Solitaire: A more difficult Signora variation with one fewer tableau pile and a predetermined foundation base.
Fan Solitaire: The original Fan game involves building in suit on eighteen tableau piles.
Farmer's Wife Solitaire: A variation of Three Blind Mice where we build in alternate colors as in Scorpion Tail.
Father Solitaire: This variation of Grandfather by Thomas Warfield adds difficulty by reducing the number of tableau piles, and adds strategy by eliminating the automatic filling of empty spaces, but it's still a pretty easy game.
Fifteen Solitaire: Build up on one foundation, down on the other. Build up or down on the tableau.
Fifteens Solitaire: A simple game where you remove sets that add to 15 or sets of four tens, four jacks, four queens, or four kings.
Fifteen Rush Solitaire
Floradora Solitaire: A two-deck variation of Thirty Six with an extra foundation pile for kings, but no stack moves.
Flow Solitaire: An easier variation of Wave Motion that permits building on the reserve.
Fly Solitaire: A variation of Frog where the aces start on the foundation.
Fortress Solitaire: A classic and usually insolvable ancestor of Beleaguered Castle where you can build both up and down in the tableau.
Fortress of Mercy Solitaire: A variation of Fortress that allows you one "merci" move, in which any one card can be moved to the top of its stack.
Fortune's Favor Solitaire: An extremely easy, one-deck version of Busy Aces.
German Solitaire: A strange and difficult game where you must build sequences on the tableau, regardless of suit.
Gilbert Solitaire: An odd Klondike variation with one set of foundations building up and one set building down. The fact that only sevens can fill gaps in the tableau makes it nearly unplayable.
Giza Solitaire: Michael Keller's variation of Pyramid has a tableau of cards instead of a stock, making it a completely open game.
Gloucestershire Solitaire: A two-deck variation of Flower Garden.
Gotham Solitaire: An easier variation of New York where we build regardless of suit and same-suit stacks can be moved.
Famous Fifty Solitaire: A difficult Forty Thieves variation which starts with one extra card on each tableau pile.
Forty Bandits Solitaire: An easier variant of Forty Thieves where sequences may be moved.
Forty Devils Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's difficult cross between Rouge Forty and Lady Cadogan.
Forty-Nine Solitaire: This Forty and Eight variation has forty-nine cards in a seven by seven tableau. You build down regardless of suit, moving cards one at a time.
Forty Thieves Solitaire: Similar to Forty and Eight, but the tableau has forty cards in ten stacks of four, and we only allow one pass through the deck.
Forty Thieves (3 deck) Solitaire: A three deck version of Forty Thieves with a 12 by 4 tableau.
Forty Thieves (4 deck) Solitaire: A four deck version of Forty Thieves with a 14 by 6 tableau. You will need a large screen to play this game.
Four by Ten Solitaire: A FreeCell variation with lots of cells and not so many tableau piles.
Four Leaf Clovers Solitaire: A single foundation pile is built regardless of suit from ace to king and then from ace to king again with the help of a tableau where you can build both up and down.
Four Seasons Solitaire: A simple game of luck and skill where you move cards one at a time, stacking regardless of suit. The five tableau piles are supposed to be arranged in a cross with the foundation piles in the four corners, but Politaire is still too stupid to do that.
Fours Up Solitaire: Thomas Warfield created this game as a continuation of the series starting with the traditional games Busy Aces and Deuces. The number of tableau piles is again reduced, but now we can build regardless of suit so the game gets a bit easier.
Fred's Spider Solitaire: In this easy variation on Spider, designed by Fred Lunde of Livonia, Michigan, cards are dealt face up and can be moved to the foundation singly.
FreeCell Four Deck Solitaire: A four-deck version of FreeCell for those who like spending a long time solving a single deal.
FreeCell Three Deck Solitaire: Yet another three-deck version of FreeCell.
FreeFan Solitaire: An easy variation of Fan with cells. Invented by Gregg Seelhoff.
Indefatigable Solitaire: This variation of Royal Family is basically the same, but the foundations build up from ace, and it is made even easier by a extra redeal.
Inquisitor Solitaire: This Lady Jane variation by Thomas Warfield requires you to build in suit, but gives you an extra redeal.
Inverted FreeCell Solitaire: Just like FreeCell but we limber up our brains by building everything in the opposite direction.
FreeCell Duplex Solitaire: An easy two-deck version of FreeCell. Requires a large screen.
ForeCell Solitaire: A Swedish predecessor to FreeCell, originally one of many games called "Napolean at St. Helena". The initial layout is a bit different from FreeCell, and spaces can only be filled by Kings.
Friday Solitaire: A pair removal game with a two part tableau, only one of which is autofilled from the stock.
Frog Solitaire: A relation of Sir Tommy with a reserve.
Gargantua Solitaire: A two-deck version of Klondike invented by Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith. You get two passes through the deck, dealing cards one at a time.
Giant Solitaire: A Miss Milligan variant without a pocket but in which any card can be played to an empty space.
Gold Mine Solitaire: A Klondike variation that starts with an empty tableau.
Gold Rush Solitaire: A Klondike variation where the number of cards dealt to the waste decreases with each pass through the stock.
Golf Solitaire: Build up or down on the single foundation to take cards off the tableau, where no building is allowed.
Golf Rush Solitaire: A variant of Golf played on with a Klondike-style tableau.
Good Measure Solitaire: A much more difficult variation of Baker's Dozen with fewer tableau piles.
Grandfather Solitaire: A game with twenty tableau piles, each of which can hold any two cards. You build up on half the foundations and down on the others.
Great Triangle Solitaire: An difficult three-deck Klondike version by Thomas Warfield.
Grounds for Divorce Solitaire: A Spider game where cards are not dealt to empty columns.
Gypsy Solitaire: A cross between Spider and Klondike.
Incompatibility Solitaire: A Spider game where cards can be moved to the foundation one at a time and where cards are not dealt to empty columns.
Interchange Solitaire: An extremely difficult Forty Thieves variant with alternate cards dealt face down.
Irmgard Solitaire: A variant of Gypsy where you have an extra tableau pile, but you can only fill spaces with kings.
Harp Solitaire: A two-deck Klondike variation.
HalfCell Solitaire: FreeCell with only two foundation piles.
Haystack Solitaire: A more difficult version of Needle where only 8 cards can be stored in the reserve.
How They Run Solitaire: A variation of Three Blind Mice invented by Erik den Hollander with two cells replacing the two card reserve.
Huge Spider Solitaire: A four-deck version of Spider.
Hypotenuse Solitaire: A version of Eternal Triangle with some cards face down.
Imperial Guards Solitaire: A version of Miss Milligan where empty tableau spaces can be filled with any card instead of Kings only. Since empty spaces are common in these games, this greatly simplifies the game.
Indian Solitaire: An easy game that is similar to Forty Thieves, except that the first card in each stack of the 10 by 3 tableau is face down, and cards can be played on any suit other than their own.
Intelligence Solitaire: A two-deck version of La Belle Lucie.
Isabel Solitaire: Remove pairs of cards of equal rank from a 13x4 tableau.
Jacks in the Box Solitaire: A variation on Deuces which has fewer tableau piles but adds some cells.
Josephine Solitaire: Similar to Forty Thieves, except that you can move sequences.
Junction Solitaire: A variation of Single Rail or Double Rail for four piquet decks.
Juvenile Solitaire: A two-deck game where you remove pairs that add to fourteen.
Kansas Solitaire: Like Rainbow this is a Canfield variation where you build regardless of suit, but this is a bit more difficult because you only have three tableau piles.
Kiev Solitaire: A version of Ukrainian Solitaire where there is a stock of cards dealt to a rectangular tableau, making the whole thing rather Spiderish.
King Albert Solitaire: This game, one of several games also known as "Idiot's Delight," has a triangular tableau and seven reserve cards, all playable. It's usually unsolvable.
KingCell Solitaire: A variation of FreeCell where we build down regardless of suit instead of by alternate color, and only kings may be played to empty tableau spaces
Kingdom Solitaire: A game where no building is allowed in the tableau and suits are ignored while building up the tableau. Our version may be slightly less dreadful than the usual.
Kingsdown Eights Solitaire: This variation of Tournament has a tableau where you can build by alternate color instead of cells.
Kingsley Solitaire: Reverse Klondike which in theory is no more difficult, but which proves hard to wrap your head around if you are used to playing it the other way round.
King Tut Solitaire: A pyramid variation where we deal three cards at once and have unlimited redeals.
Klondike (Gallery Mode) Solitaire: The world's most famous solitaire game played in gallery mode so all stock cards are always visible and the playable ones are raised
Klondike Territory Solitaire: A cross between Flower Garden and Klondike, slightly more difficult than the similar Northwest Territory game.
Knotty Nines Solitaire: A more difficult variation of Trusty Twelve.
La Belle Lucie Solitaire: A classic solitaire where you build down in suit on the tableau and can redeal twice. Rarely winnable.
Lady Betty Solitaire: This cousin of Sir Tommy requires you to build the foundation in suit, but gives you two extra tableau piles to work with.
Lady Cadogan Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's Rouge et Noir variant where we build regardless of suit instead of in alternating colors.
Lady Jane Solitaire: An easy two-deck Spider/Klondike blend by Thomas Warfield.
Lady Palk Solitaire: Similar to Diplomat, but allows stacks to be moved and spaces can only be filled by kings.
Lafayette Solitaire: A Canfield variant with one foundation building up and one building down.
Lanes Solitaire: A six-by-three tableau played much like Klondike, but you can't move stacks.
Lasker Solitaire: A version of Chessboard where sequences may be moved.
Leap Year Solitaire: A four-deck version of Auld Lang Syne. Requires a large screen.
Lily Solitaire: A harder variation of Trillium where spaces may only be filled with kings.
Limited Solitaire: Like Forty Thieves, but with a 12 by 3 tableau.
Lincoln Greens Solitaire: A four-deck variation of Putt Putt, or a version of Panther Creek that allows wrapping.
Links Solitaire: A pair-removal game by Thomas Warfield, distantly related to Golf. Your priority should be to clear the cards in the stock.
Linus Solitaire: An easier variation of La Belle Lucie where you build in alternate colors.
Little Billie Solitaire: In this game dating back to around 1900, no building is allowed, but you have some cells that can be used to uncover the cards you need. Two redeals are allowed.
Little Forty Solitaire: Like Forty Thieves, but we build in regardless of color, can move sequences, and can make three passes through the deck, dealing three cards at a time.
Little Giant Solitaire: A one-deck version of Giant.
Little Milligan Solitaire: A hard-to-win one-deck version of Miss Milligan.
Little Napolean Solitaire: A Forty Thieves variant that shows some Spider influences, because you can build regardless of suit, but only move same-suit sequences.
Lucas Solitaire: A Forty Thieves variant with thirteen tableau piles and aces starting on the foundation.
Lucas Leaps Solitaire: An easy Forty Thieves variant similar to Waning Moon except that sequences can be moved.
Lucky Fan Solitaire: A version of FreeFan in which no fan may hold more than three cards.
Lucky Piles Solitaire: A vastly easier varition of Lucky Thirteen in which you can build up or down.
Luckier Thirteen Solitaire: An easier version of Lucky Thirteen, or a cell-free version of FreeCell. Also known as "Thirteen by Zero".
Lucky Thirteen Solitaire: A rarely-winnable game with simple rules: build down regardless of suit, no stack moves.
Lower 48 Solitaire: A variation of Forty and Eight where you build in alternate colors instead of in the same suit.
Malmaison Solitaire: A difficult four-deck version of Josephine, or, if you prefer, a version of Eighty Thieves which allows sequences to be moved. Invented by Thomas Warfield.
Mamy Susan Solitaire: A Forty Thieves variation from France with a five card reserve.
Manx Solitaire: Build complete sequences by rearranging four piles regardless of suit in this game invented by Rick Holzgrafe of Solitaire Til Dawn.
Maria Solitaire: Like Forty Thieves, but with a 9 by 4 tableau where you build in alternating colors.
Midnight Clover Solitaire: A Fan variant by Thomas Warfield where a draw is allowed.
Midshipman Solitaire: A slightly easier variation of Maria where we build by different suits instead of alternate colors and where some cards start out face down.
Marie Rose Solitaire: A three-deck version of Josephine or a version of Sixty Thieves which allows sequences to be moved.
Martha Solitaire: An easy game with no stock where half the cards start face down. Somewhat similar to Baker's Dozen.
McClellan Solitaire: A harder variation of Little Napolean where you need to build in suit.
Millie Solitaire: Miss Milligan without reserve.
Milligan Cell Solitaire: A FreeCellish variation of Miss Milligan.
Milligan Harp Solitaire: A cross between Miss Milligan and the two-deck Klondike variant known as Harp.
Milligan Yukon Solitaire: A cross between Milligan Harp and Yukon.
Minerva Solitaire: Athena with a Canfield-style reserve added.
Moosehide Solitaire: A variant of Yukon where you build down in non-matching suits
Morehead Solitaire: A Somerset variant where we build in different suits instead of alternate colors.
Mount Olympus Solitaire: Build by twos, so odds and evens are in separate sequences on the tableau and separate piles on the foundation.
Moving Left Solitaire: A variant of Gargantua or Double Klondike where empty spaces are automatically filled from the next column.
Munger Solitaire: A variation of Minerva with the reserve is smaller and only one pass through the stock is allowed.
Muse Solitaire: This variation of King Albert has cells instead of a reserve.
Mystique Solitaire: A variation of Munger and Minerva with a reserve sized half-way between the two.
Napoleon's Quadrilateral Solitaire: This older, more difficult, version of Napoleon's Square does not allow stack moves, but moves a lot of cards to the foundation during the deal.
Napoleon's Shoulder Solitaire: A varient of Napoleon's Square where you build regardless of suit.
Napoleon's Square Solitaire: This French game, first described by Lady Adelaide Cadogen in the early 1900's, is an easy variant of Forty Thieves.
Nationale Solitaire: Like Caprice without a stock.
Needle Solitaire: A game with a U-shaped tableau and a reserve you can store cards in.
Neptune Solitaire: A game where you remove pairs of consecutive cards.
New York Solitaire: In this variation of Dover, you can choose which of the three waste piles you play cards from the stock onto, which is good because it's hard to rearrange things much on the tableau.
Nines Solitaire: A variation on Simple Pairs pairs that add to 9 or set of ten through king. Much luck required.
Northwest Territory Solitaire: A cross between Flower Garden and Klondike, slightly easier than the similar Klondike Territory game.
Number Ten Solitaire: Like Forty Thieves, but two cards in each tableau stack are dealt face down, we build in alternating colors, and can move stacks as a whole.
Odd and Even Solitaire: A difficult, old and remarkably stupid game where foundation piles are built up by twos and no building is allowed on the tableau.
Odessa Solitaire: A variant of Russian with a different starting tableau.
Old Carlton Solitaire: A two-deck Klondike variation, much easier than Carlton.
Opus Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's much more difficult version of Penguin has two fewer cells
Outback Solitaire: A two-deck version of Australian Solitaire.
Pantagruel Solitaire: This two-deck Klondike variant is more difficult than Gargantua, but is still pretty easy.
Panther Creek Solitaire: A four-deck Golf variation.
Patient Pairs Solitaire: As in Simple Pairs, you remove pairs of cards of the same rank, but the cards start out all dealt to the tableau, so a smidgeon more skill is involved.
Parliament Solitaire: An easier version of Congress, where the aces start on the foundation.
Pas Seul Solitaire: A Klondike variant with a rectangular tableau, differing from Blind Alleys only in the number of passes through the deck allowed. The name refers to a dance sequence for one person.
Penelope's Web Solitaire: A very difficult variation of Beleaguered Castle where spaces can only be filled by kings.
Penta Solitaire: Another Busy Aces variation by Thomas Warfield, in this one, half the tabeau builds up, and half builds down.
Perseverance A Solitaire: A variation of Cruel where stacks may be moved.
Perseverance B Solitaire: An alternate version of Perseverance A where there are only two redeals, the redeal method is different, and kings are automatically moved to the bottoms of their stacks.
Pharaohs Solitaire: A variation of Pyramid with three pyramids.
Phoenix Solitaire: A more difficult variation of Arizona where you build by alternate colors.
Pile Up Solitaire: A game where you must sort the cards by rank rather than suit.
Pitchfork Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's variation of Needle and Haystack in which you cannot build on the reserve.
Portuguese Solitaire: A variant of Baker's Dozen that allows filling in spaces with kings.
Preference Solitaire: A slightly more challenging version of Fortune's Favor with fewer tableau piles.
Private Lane Solitaire: A variation of Beleaguered Castle with two FreeCell-style cells added.
Putt Putt Solitaire: An easier variation of Golf where wrapping from King to Ace is allowed.
Dark Pyramid Solitaire: A version of Pyramid where the cards are dealt face down.
Pyramid Dozen Solitaire: A version of Giza in which cards are removed in pairs that add to twelve.
Quadrangle Solitaire: A variation of Corona where the base card is determined by a card dealt into the foundation.
Quadrennial Solitaire: A version of Leap Year with two redeals, or a version of Acquaintance with four deck.
Quadruple Canfield Solitaire: An easy four-deck version of Canfield invented by Thomas Warfield.
Quadruple Interchange Solitaire: A four-deck version of Interchange.
Quadruple Klondike Solitaire: A four-deck variation of Klondike, invented by Thomas Warfield. You will need a large screen for this. Try using the F11 key to put your browser into full-screen mode.
Quadruple Trigon Solitaire: A four-deck version of Trigon. Needs a large screen.
Quadruple Yukon Solitaire: A four-deck variation of Yukon
Queenie Solitaire: Build stacks of cards in alternating colors as in Klondike, move arbitrary groups of cards as in Yukon, and deal waves of cards onto to the tableau, as in Spider.
Queen Victoria Solitaire: This much easier variation of King Albert allows stacks of cards to be moved.
Quizzie Solitaire: A variation of Inquisitor by Thomas Warfield where you deal fewer cards in each pass through the deck.
Racing Aces Solitaire: A three-deck version of Aces and Kings invented by Thomas Warfield.
Raglan Solitaire: This is King Albert with a different tableau and Aces already on the foundation. It is a bit easier to solve.
Rainbow Solitaire: A variation of Canfield in which you can build regardless of suit.
Rainbow Fan Solitaire: A bidirectional building game where you can rotate cards in the stacks three times.
Rank and File Solitaire: Like Number Ten, but three cards in each stack are dealt face down.
Red and Black Solitaire: A game where everything is built in alternate colors. Also known as "Rouge et Noir" or "Zebra."
Repair Solitaire: A two-deck version of FreeCell.
Robert Solitaire: An nearly unwinnable game with no tableau.
Robie Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's version of Forty Thieves in which the tableau starts empty.
Roman Solitaire: A variation of Signora where we build regardless of suit. Invented by Thomas Warfield.
Roosevelt Solitaire: A very hard Forty Thieves variant where we build by alternate colors on only seven tableau piles.
Rouge et Noir Solitaire: A variant of Diavolo with a different tableau and no waste. Invented by Charles Jewell.
Rouge Forty Solitaire: A variation of Rouge et Noir with a rectangular tableau. Invented by Thomas Warfield.
Rows of Four Solitaire: An easier version of Diplomat, allowing some redeals.
Royal Cotillion Solitaire: A variation of Odd and Even with some extra tableau and reserve piles, but only one pass allowed through the deck.
Royal Family Solitaire: This game allows you to build up and down and fill spaces with any card, which makes the game so easy that you often don't need the redeal that you are allowed.
Royal Rendezvous Solitaire: An odd Austrian game with four foundation sets, one normal, one for evens, one for odds, and one for kings. No building on the tableau.
Rueil Solitaire: A version of Malmaison made easier by allowing a redeal.
Russian Solitaire: A harder variation of Yukon where you must build down in the same suit instead of in alternate colors.
Russian Cell Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's variant of Russian Solitaire adds a couple cells.
Sally Solitaire: A version of Double Klondike where the base card of the foundation depends on a card dealt in.
San Juan Hill Solitaire: An easier variant of Forty Thieves in which aces are already on the foundation.
Saratoga Solitaire: This is just Klondike with the cards dealt face up.
Saxony Solitaire: You have four cells, four reserve piles where you can build down in suit, and eight tableau piles, where cards are dealt, but no building is allowed.
Scorpion Solitaire: A game with a seven-by-seven tableau, where three cards in the first four piles start face down. Unsorted stacks of cards can be moved around, as in Yukon, but cards cannot be moved to the foundation until they form complete sequences, as in Spider.
Scorpion Head Solitaire: A variation of Scorpion with some cells.
Scorpion Tail Solitaire: A variation of Scorpion where we build down by alternate color instead of down in suit.
Scotch Solitaire: Foundations build in alternate colors, tableau builds regardless of suit.
Sea Towers Solitaire: A popular FreeCell variation invented in 1988 by Art Cabral. The initial layout is different, and we must build down in suit instead of in alternating colors.
Selective Castle Solitaire: A version of Beleaguered Castle where the base of the foundation is determined by the first card you play to it.
Selective FreeCell Solitaire: A variation of FreeCell where the first card played to the foudnation sets the base value for all the foundations.
Seven by Five Solitaire: A FreeCell variant with one fewer tableau column and more more cell.
Seven by Four Solitaire: A harder FreeCell variant with one fewer tableau column.
Seven by Seven Solitaire: This danish game with a seven-by-seven tableau and three cells allows two redeals.
Gay Gordons Solitaire: A pair removal game where you remove pairs that add to 11, Kings with Queens, or Jacks together.
Shamrocks Solitaire: A variation of Fan where you can build up or down regardless of suit, but are limited to three cards per stack.
Shuffle Solitaire: A version of Neptune where you can also pair kings with aces.
Signora Solitaire: Build everything in alternate colors, while trying to clear an eleven-card reserve to the foundaton.
Simon Jester Solitaire: A two-deck variant of Simple Simon invented by Adam Selene. It is like Spider except that all cards start face up in a triangular tableau and there are no further cards be dealt.
Simon Says Solitaire: A blend of Simple Simon with FreeCell invented by Thomas Warfield.
Simple Pairs Solitaire: A game where you remove pairs of cards of the same rank. Bring your luck, not your brain, to this game.
Simple Simon Solitaire: Like a one-deck Spider where all cards start face up in a triangular tableau and there are no further cards to deal.
Single Interchange Solitaire: A difficult one-deck variant of Interchange invented by Thomas Warfield.
Single Left Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's one-deck version of Moving Left.
Single Rail Solitaire: A one-deck version of Double Rail. A good little game for small screens.
Shady Lanes Solitaire: A difficult game with four reserve piles and four tableau piles.
Sir Tommy Solitaire: A classic old solitaire game where cards may be placed anywhere on the tableau, but cannot be rearranged.
Six by Four Solitaire: A much harder FreeCell variant with two fewer tableau columns.
Sixes and Sevens Solitaire: No building on tableau, some foundation build up, some build down.
Sixteen Piles Solitaire: An unusual game where you stack cards of equal ranks to uncover cards to move to the foundation.
Sixty Thieves Solitaire: A difficult three-deck version of Forty Thieves by Thomas Warfield.
Skippy Solitaire: A game invented by Lillian Davies and Christa Baran.
Smokey Solitaire: A Klondike variant invented by Ann Edwards where you can build sequences in color, but only move sequences of the same suit. Not too hard. Not too easy.
Somerset Solitaire: A Klondike variant without stock or waste. Unlike Usk, moves of stacks are not allowed, but spaces can be filled by any card.
Spanish Solitaire: A variant of Baker's Dozen that allows filling in spaces.
SpiderCells Solitaire: A FreeCell variant where you need to build complete alternating color sequences on the tableau.
Spider One Suit Solitaire: Spider with nothing but spades, spades, spades, as far as the eye can see.
Spider Three Deck Solitaire: This three-deck version of Spider is a bit easier than Big Spider.
Spider Two Suits Solitaire: The name says it all: Spider with only two suits.
Spiderette Solitaire: A one-deck version of Spider, with a Klondike-style triangular tableau.
Spidike Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's blend of Spider with a Klondike ends up looking a lot like Spiderette except that cards can be moved singly to the foundation.
Spike Solitaire: Klondike with three waste piles.
Squadron Solitaire: A much easier version of with three cells.
Stages Solitaire: An easier variation of Busy Aces that allows stack moves.
Stalactites Solitaire: This suitless game with no building requires you to clear the tableau with only two cells you help you.
Steve Solitaire: A two-deck Klondike variant where we build regardless of suit, but can only move same-suit sequences.
Stewart Solitaire: A more difficult variation of Martha in which only single cards may be moved. It is similar to Baker's Dozen.
Stonewall Solitaire: Similar to Flower Garden, except some cards start face down, you must build in alternate colors, and you can move sequences. A hard game to win.
Steps Solitaire: A two-deck version of Klondike.
Straight Fifteens Solitaire: An easier varition of Fifteens where tens, jacks, queens and kings are removed in groups containing one of each instead of four of a kind.
Strata Solitaire: An eight-by-eight square tableau, a short deck, and two redeals make this game interesting.
Streets Solitaire: Just like Forty Thieves, except you build in alternate colors.
Street and Alleys Solitaire: A more difficult variation of Beleaguered Castle that starts with no cards dealt into the foundation.
Stronghold Solitaire: A variation of Beleaguered Castle with one FreeCell style cell added.
Suit Elevens Solitaire: A variation of Elevens where you can only remove sets of cards if they are all of the same suit.
Suits Up Solitaire: An easy game where you remove pairs of cards of the same suit, until only four cards are left.
Suit Triangle Solitaire: A two-deck version of Klondike where we build in the same suite.
Super Challenge FreeCell Solitaire: A version of FreeCell invented by Thomas Warfield where the aces and twos are always at the bottoms of the eight stacks and where spaces can only be filled by Kings.
Superior Canfield Solitaire: Canfield made a bit easier and a bit more strategic by dealing the reserve cards face up and not automatically filling spaces from the reserve.
Super Flower Garden Solitaire: This is an easier version of La Belle Lucie in which one may build regardless of suit. It is unrelated to Flower Garden.
Swiss Solitaire: Like Klondike but aces are high and the tableau is pyramidical.
Sweet Sixteen Solitaire: A variation of Trusty Twelve where you build by alternate color
Tabbycat Solitaire: An easier version of Manx which allows a sequence to be parkted in the tail. Also invented by Rick Holzgrafe of Solitaire Til Dawn.
Tarantula Solitaire: An easier variation of Spider where you are allowed to move sequences that are all one color even if they aren't all of one suit.
Taking Silk Solitaire: A two deck version of Thirty Six. Having more suits than tableau piles makes this tricky.
Ten Across Solitaire: A variation of Russian with a different starting tableau and two cells, which start full.
Ten By One Solitaire: Ten tableau piles and one cell make a game with similarities to FreeCell and Vineyard.
Tens Solitaire: A set removal game similar to Simple Pairs where you can take off pairs that add to 10 or a set four matching cards ten or higher. A game of pure luck.
Titan Solitaire: A version of Giant that starts with more cards on the tableau.
Trefoil Solitaire: A slightly easier variation of La Belle Lucie where the aces start on the foundation and there are fewer tableau columns.
Trevi Garden Solitaire: A variation of Stonewall made easier by the addition of two cells.
Triangle Solitaire: A very hard inverted version of Pyramid.
Trusty Twelve Solitaire: More luck than skill is needed to win this game of building sequences on the tableau.
Tens Out Solitaire: A variation of Fourteen Out where we remove pairs adding to 10.
The Wish Solitaire: This easy pair-removal game uses a short deck and no stock, but is otherwise similar to Doublets.
Thieves of Egypt Solitaire: A variant of Forty Thieves with a pyramid-shaped tableau.
Thieves Rush Solitaire: A Forty Thieves variant invented by Thomas Warfield where in each pass through the deck you deal in smaller chunks.
Thirteens Solitaire: Remove pairs that add the thirteen. Entirely a game of luck.
Thirty Nine Steps Solitaire: Waning Moon with fewer cards in the initial tableau.
Thirty Six Solitaire: A six-by-six tableau where you build regardless of color.
Thoughtful Solitaire: Klondike with all cards in the tableau starting face up. Also known as "Saratoga".
ThreeCell Solitaire: A variation of FreeCell with only three cells.
Three Bears Solitaire: A variation on Triple Klondike invented by Thomas Warfield. You build in the same suit instead of alternate colors.
Three Blind Mice Solitaire: A variation of Scorpion with a 10 by 5 tableau and a two-card reserve.
Three Pirates Solitaire: A variation of Forty Thieves with three waste piles.
Three's Company Solitaire: A rather difficult variation of Deuces or Busy Aces with still fewer tableau piles but stack moves are allowed. Invented by Thomas Warfield.
Three Demons Solitaire: This three-deck version of Canfield invented by Thomas Warfield starts with more cards in the reserve and more tableau piles than Triple Canfield.
Three Shuffles and a Draw Solitaire: A variation of La Belle Lucie that adds a draw.
Thumb and Pouch Solitaire: Like Klondike, but easier, because cards can be played on tableau cards of any different suit.
Trigon Solitaire: A variation of Klondike where we build in suit instead of with alternating colors.
Trigon Left Solitaire: A blend of Trigon and Moving Left.
Trillium Solitaire: A Spider variant with a 13x4 tableau where you build down by alternate color.
Triple Canfield Solitaire: An easy three-deck version of Canfield invented by Thomas Warfield that has fewer tableau piles and a smaller reserve than Three Demons.
Triple Easthaven Solitaire: A three-deck version of Easthaven by Thomas Warfield.
Triple Fourteens Solitaire: An three-deck version of Fourteen Out which was invented by Thomas Warfield.
Triple FreeCell Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's three-deck version of FreeCell.
Tripleharp Solitaire: A three-deck version of Harp invented by Thomas Warfield.
Triple Interchange Solitaire: A three-deck version of Interchange.
Triple Klondike Solitaire: A three deck version of Klondike invented by Thomas Warfield.
Triple Left Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's three-deck version of Moving Left.
Triple Minerva Solitaire: Thomas Warfield's three-deck version of Minerva.
Triple Russian Solitaire: A three-deck version of Russian solitaire by Thomas Warfield.
Triple Scorpion Solitaire: A three-deck variation of Scorpion with no reserve.
Triple Triangle Solitaire: A three-deck Eternal Triangle variation by Thomas Warfield.
Triple Yukon Solitaire: A three-deck variation of Yukon
Tuxedo Solitaire: An easier variant of Penguin where all cards start on the tableau.
Tvete's Grandfather Solitaire
Twenty Solitaire: A somewhat mindless game with twenty reserve piles and no building.
Two Cell Solitaire: A variation of FreeCell with only two cells.
Ukrainian Solitaire: A rarely winnable version of Russian Solitaire where only complete sequences can be taken off, as in spider.
Unlimited Solitaire: An easier variant of Interchange, in which we are allowed unlimited redeals
Unusual Solitaire: A two-deck version of Cruel.
Usk Solitaire: A Klondike variant without stock or waste. Unlike Somerset, moves of stacks are allowed and there is a redeal, but spaces can only be filled by kings.
Ripple Fan Solitaire: An easier variation of Cruel with one more tableau pile.
Up and Up Solitaire: A variation of Trusty Twelve where you can build kings on aces.
Variegated Canfield Solitaire: A difficult two-deck version of Canfield, with aces starting on the foundation and only three passes through the waste allowed.
Vineyard Solitaire: A difficult variation of Baker's Dozen invented by Peter Voke.
Wading Pool Solitaire: An easier variation of Wave Motion that permits building, but not stack moves, on the reserve.
Waning Moon Solitaire: A Forty Thieves variant with more tableau piles.
Waterloo Solitaire: A Forty Thieves variant with Spider-like building rules.
Waxing Moon Solitaire: A very difficult Forty Thieves variant by Thomas Warfield.
Wave Motion Solitaire: In David Bernazzani's variation on FreeCell and Scorpion, all cards start on the reserve. They need to be arranged into sequences on the tableau.
Westcliff Solitaire: An very easy Klondike variant where you have ten tableau piles.
Wildflower Solitaire: A variation of Flower Garden in which you may move sequences of cards of the same suit together.
Winery Solitaire: A version of Vineyard with cells added.
Whitehead Solitaire: Like Klondike, but with cards face up and you build in matching colors instead of alternating colors. You can move sequences, but only if the suits match.
Whitehorse Solitaire: An easy Klondike variant where instead of dealing a lot of cards to the tableau, we have spaces that autofill
Will o the Wisp Solitaire: A one-deck version of Spider, with a rectangular 7x3 tableau.
Willow Solitaire: A Klondike variation with four fan piles where we can build with cards of equal rank. Invented by Thomas Warfield.
Wood Solitaire: A game where we build both the foundation and the tableau in alternate colors. The big problem is the ten-card reserve, which can be played only to the foundation, which generally requires some advanced planning to achieve.
Yukon Cells Solitaire: A variation of Yukon simplified by the addition of two cells.
Yukonic Plague Solitaire: A more difficult variation of Yukon where many cards are buried in a reserve.
Yukon Kings Solitaire: A difficult version of Yukon without foundations.
Yukon One Suit Solitaire: A one-suit variation of Yukon. The game is almost always winnable, but still makes you think a bit.
Zerline Solitaire: A German game where queens are high and you have a four card storage area.

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