About This Klondike Site
The solitaire everybody means
Seven columns, four foundations, and a stock pile you will come to resent. Say “solitaire” anywhere and this is the layout that appears in the listener’s head, mostly because Microsoft shipped it with Windows 3.0 in 1990 to teach a generation how to drag a mouse. What runs here is that same game, dealt fresh every time, with undo and redo, a move counter, a timer, and win statistics that survive closing the tab.
Difficulty is two rule knobs, not a fake handicap
Some sites make solitaire harder by dealing you a worse shuffle and not admitting it. The deal here is always an honest random one. Easy turns a single stock card and lets you recycle the pile forever, Medium keeps the single card but stops you after three passes, and Hard is the traditional draw-three with three passes, which is the version that actually asks something of you. Twenty-one cards start face down no matter which you pick, and that hidden information — not the setting — is what separates the roughly four-in-five deals that are solvable on paper from the far smaller share anyone wins in practice.
Six written pages around the table
The prose ships in the same commits as the game, which is the only reliable way to stop the two from contradicting each other:
- Solitaire RulesThe deal, the alternating colours, and the trip from Ace to King.
- Solitaire OddsWhat the solver studies actually measured, broken down by draw mode.
- Turn 3 SolitaireThe draw-three game treated as its own puzzle rather than a penalty.
- Solitaire StrategyFlip face-down cards first, and other habits that convert near-misses.
There is also a patience page for readers who grew up calling it that, and a variations page covering Vegas scoring, Thoughtful, and the rest of the family.
Who publishes playklondike.org
The publisher is Card Games Studio, independent and small, and the same outfit behind the Spider, FreeCell, and Pyramid tables you will see linked at the foot of this page. We say so because a cluster of sites recommending each other should explain the relationship, and the studio page lists every domain we operate. Solitaire draws the most pedantic mail of anything we publish, usually about redeal limits, and that is a compliment. Send a disagreement, or a deal that behaved impossibly, to hello@coffeebreak.gg and a human reads it.