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Card games for one player are called Patience in Britain and Solitaire in America. The rest of the Card Games web site deals mostly with games for more than one player, but on this page I have provided some links to sites which specialise in one-player games. Some of these sites contain rules or analysis, and many of them provide software, since these solitary games are particularly suitable for play against a computer. If you have further links or information that should be included on this page, please let me know.
This page deals with solitaire (patience) games played with playing-cards. There are separate pages for:
Here is a link to an article by David Parlett on the Origins and History of Patience / Solitaire.
Randy Rasa's Solitaire Central site contains a wide range of information, including a searchable Solitaire Rulebook with descriptions of numerous games, a searchable collection of reviews of computer solitaire games for download, plus reviews of online solitaire games.
Here is an archive copy of Gordon Bower's Solitaire pages, which have rules of several solitaires, old and new, and investigations of the probability of winning.
For information about Freecell, see Michael Keller's Freecell site, including a tutorial, a catalog of solutions and free computer program Freecell Pro. A further collection of Freecell links can be found at Freecell.org.
Michael Keller also runs the Solitaire Laboratory, which includes a section on Giza.
The rules section of the BVS Solitaire site has rules for hundreds of solitaire games.
Boris Sandberg's BVS Solitaire is a collection of 392 different solitaire games, and allows the user to create new games by modifying the rules of the included games. The author writes: "You'll be able to learn solitaires not found elsewhere. BVS Solitaire Collection gives you a plethora of statistical and scoring screens. You can track your performance and progress in playing solitaire about as completely as many people use a computer to track their finances. And you can publish your personal statistics on the BVS Solitaire Collection web site to appear in the top scores list."
BVS also runs sites giving rules and strategy tips for Freecell and Spider, with free trial downloads of these games.
Rules for many Solitaire games are available on the the United States Playing Card Co. web site.
Thomas Warfield's Pretty Good Solitaire is a collection of 570 solitaire games for Windows. Users can have their win/loss statistics posted on the web site. The site also contains the rules for all these games. From the same site you can also obtain Action Solitaire, in which you play for points against the clock in timed rounds, and Pretty Good Mahjongg, a collection of solitaire games using Mah Jong and other tile sets, including the well-known tile matching game, and also Mah Jong tile solitaires based on Freecell, Spider and Klondike.
SolSuite 2008 is a high quality Windows shareware collection of 480 Solitaire games including Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Pyramid, Golf, Busy Aces, Canfield, Forty Thieves, Diplomat, Four Seasons, Poker Solitaire, Flower Garden, Rouge et Noir, Scorpion, Monte Carlo, Sultan, La Belle Lucie, Gaps and several original games. Features include unlimited undo and redo, Snapshot position and Undo to snapshot, comprehensive statistics, customisable playing-cards and backgrounds, and an editor that lets you change the rules of any game.
Zonora Technologies offers several shareware collections of solitaire games, with comprehensive statistics and save, undo and replay facilities:
MVP Solitaire is a collection of shareware solitaire games for Windows. The Real Deal, also from MVP, includes Solitaire and other card games.
Hoyle® Solitaire is a collection of 50 Solitaire games for Windows. The same collection is also included in Hoyle® Card Games (2007), which also provides a selection of multi-player card games to play against the computer.
Microsoft's Solitaire, a computer version of Klondike Solitaire created by Wes Cherry, has been included with every version of Windows from 3.0 up.
1st Free Solitaire for Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003 is a free collection of 7 polular solitaire card games: Yukon, FreeCell, Klondike, Flower Garden, Nestor, Bisley, Carpet.
James Yates has written pages on Solitaire Strategy and Vegas-style Scoring, which discuss the strategy of Klondike Solitaire.
Absolute Patience by Bertrand Vauthier (Kamikaze Games), formerly known as Solo Cards, is a collection of 430 solitaire card games (over 600 if custom rules are included) played against the clock. The Absolute Paitience site also provides rules of several Solitaire games.
WebTV users: the following sites provide Solitaire games that can be played on-line - no downloads and no Java required!
Here are the rules for Cribbage Solitaire, in which you play Cribbage against the deck.
At World Winner players can compete in tournaments for cash prizes at Freecell, Solitaire Rush, Golf Solitaire, Catch 21 and other games.
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Rick Holzgrafe's Semicolon Software publishes Solitaire Till Dawn, a collection of solitaire computer programs for the Macintosh, plus a discussion of the strategy for winning the various games:
Scott McNab's Card Games 4 Free site reviews a range of free Solitaire games.
Vegard Krog Petersen's Freeware Solitaire page has reviews of a large number of free solitaire packages.
Gabor Kertes has published a Windows Solitaire pack.
Rajeev Hariharan's Explorer Solitaire site offers a range of Solitaire games for on-line play or download.
Hardwood Solitaire is a collection of over 80 3D solitaires for Windows from Silver Creek Entertainment.
2M Games Solitaires Collection offers a collection of 400 computer Solitaire games for Windows.
AS-Solitaire is a free collection of 40 Solitaire games for Windows, supplied with an editor which you can use to design your own cards for the game.
Miha publishes a shareware collection 18 card games for 1 player. It includes a facility for the user to add further games by specifying their rules in a text file.
Armchair Solitaire from Latticeworks software provides popular varieties of freecell, klondike and spider solitaire for Windows. They also publish a total solitaire page with rules, variations, tips and trivia.
Roger Waters' Solitaire Innovations site offers computer solitaire games in which all the starting positions are selected to be winnable, movable cards are highlighted and multiple moves can be made with a single mouse click.
123 Free Solitaire is a freeware collection of solitaire games by TreeCardGames Inc. The same organisation also publishes several more free collections: 123 Free Solitaire for Children, NetSolitaire, and Spider Solitaire. Also 123 Free Puzzle Card Games, a collection of simple puzzles in which cards are moved around a small layout.
Free Golf and Pyramid Solitaire programs for Windows can be downloaded from Alex van Trijffel's Soft-Central site.
At Preben Sonne's free Solitaire Timeout site you can play Klondike, Gold or Seahaven Towers online (Java required).
DKM software offers an range of free online Solitaire games.
From Freeverse software you can obtain the Burning Monkey Solitaire 2 program for Windows or Macintosh computers.
Game Colony offers Freecell, Solitaire and Rush-21 head to head games and multi-player tournaments, which can be played free or for cash prizes.
GameAccount.com offers three Solitaire games - Klondike, Pyramid and "Riverboat Rummy" - which can be played free or for cash prizes.
Several Solitaire games can be played on line at Game Desire
On the social network site doof.com you can play Klondike, Golf Solitaire and various other games on line.
Here is David Bernazzani's Solitude for Windows page, with links to his free software.
The shareware Absolutist Solitaire Studio has a range of solitaire games and a Solitaire Script language which allows you to design your own games and add them to the program.
Ion Thunder has a number of Solitaire games which can be played on line for prizes.
PySol is a freeware collection of over 250 solitaire games by Markus Oberhumer. It runs on Unix (X11), Windows 95/98/NT and Macintosh computers.
King Sol is a collection of over 400 solitaire games for Windows.
Amber Mango, a UK company based in York, offers Freecell3D, a 3D rendered version of Freecell with the emphasis on looks and features. The game features an animated solver and a the split-screen Race Mode where you compete against the computer to finish the same deal first.
Game Box Solitaire I and II are two collections of 10 solitaire games for Windows PC, Palm OS and Pocket PC.
Solitaire Arcade from D5 Games offers Klondike Solitaire with customisable backgrounds, a choice of card backs and faces, and a built in MP3 player for background sounds, and additional mini-games for bonus points.
At the Lucky Solitaire site you can play Vegas style Solitaire for real money.
The pokersquares.com site has offers an on-line Poker Squares Solitaire game.
North Star Solutions' Poker Challenge is a computer solitaire game for Windows in which the objective is to identify and remove high scoring poker hands from a playing-card layout.
Sudoku Works Cards Edition is a computer sudoku puzzle using playing-cards from ace to nine in place of figures.
Maurits van der Schee's AceCardGames site has twelve Flash solitaire games that can be played on line. (You will need to download the free Flash 7 player if you don't already have it).
Play Games 1 has a selection of Flash solitaire card games that can be played on line.
Danny Kodicek has deveoped two Shockwave patience (solitaire) games: Ships and Layered.
Cognitoy's 5 Card Dash is a sort of cross between Poker and the arcade game Tetris - the aim is to form good poker hands by assigning the cards to columns as they fall.
Sema's on-line Tetker game is another Poker / Tetris hybrid, now available in English. Pocket PC and Smartphone versions also available.
In Dream Solitaire, available to play online or download, ascending or chains of alternate red and black cards are removed from a grid layout, causing new cards to fall from the top.
The Skill Arcade site offers an on line game of Golf Solitaire.
DogMelon offers solitaire games for PC, Palm and eBookman.
Here are Rudy Muller's rules for Rangoon (also known as Station, Blue-Moon, Gaps, Montana Aces) and here is his postcard-ware program for playing it.
Sonja Elen Kisa's site has rules for Sid Sackson's Bowling Solitaire from his book A Gamut of Games, and a link to Tim Adam's Online Bowling Solitaire game, programmed in Java.
A java Tripeaks game is available online at fwend.com.
The Italian site Solitari con le carte has rules and software for several games.
Tim Adam has written a Java1.1 program for playing Sid Sackson's Bowling Solitaire.
Here is MyCat Software's shareware Chainlink program. Chainlink is a new Solitaire game that was invented and first programmed by Walt Howe in 1987.
The American Federation for the Advancement of Duplicate Solitaire (AmFADS) has released Klondike Pro, a computer solitaire game based on Klondike, but with a special scoring system designed for competitive duplicate play.
The RISS Solitaire Pak is a collection of computer solitaire card games. A shareware version is available for download.
Here is an archive copy of John Kanold's SolKan, a shareware program which plays 130 different Solitaire games.
The Softgame Company's Funsol Solitaire 2000 plays hundreds of solitaire games.
Charles Tyson has written a freeware program CMT Solitaire for Windows 95. It plays over 30 different games, including Black Widow, Eight Off, Golf, Klondike, La Belle Lucie, Napoleon, Penguin, Pyramid and Wasp. It is also extensible - new games can be added by defining their layout and rules in a text file.
The Solitaire Network has a collection of 30 Java Soliatire games that are free to play on line without registration.
Solitaire Antics Deluxe, from Masque Publishing, is collection of 50 solitaire games for Windows or Macintosh computers. An on-line competitive solitaire game is available through the Masque web site.
Mike's Cards is a shareware collection of solitaire games for Macintosh and Windows computers. A freeware version Mike's Cards Lite is also available from the same site.
Solitaire Forever offers a collection of over 100 solitaire games with 3D graphics for Macs running OS X 10.2 or higher; they will run on PoerPC or Intel Macs but no longer work with OS 9.
The free AS-Solitaire program plays several dozen different Solitaire games, and provides a range different card designs of cards, including animals, flowers and celebrity pin-ups.
From the games section of www.dartcy.com you can obtain two solitaire games: Cal's Brain Strain, which is based on Calculation Solitaire, and Cribbage Squares, a solitaire game based on Cribbage.
Pete Wiseman's Solitaire City offers ten Solitaire games for Windows (45 if variations are counted). These are timed games against the clock - the faster you play, the higher you score. Versions of Solitaire City for Palm OS and Pocket PC are also available.
The Red Mercury programs AcidSolitaire, AcidFreecell and AcidSpider are now available for iPhone as well as Windows 2000/XP Palm OS. AcidSolitaire for Windows features 100,000 winnable deals graded by difficulty, with an animated hint system and a mechanism for keeping detailed statistics of games played and results.
Mike Perry's Allgood Solitaire (formerly Poor man's Solitaire) for the Macintosh includes a range of games.
A range of soltaire games can be obtained from the Game Download site.
The Solitaire Bodies page has Klondike Solitaire games with pinup cards that can be played on line or downloaded.
The Swiss Hangar21 page includes a free Flash solitaire played with cards depicting footballers.
Here is Brian Bain's Windows Solitaire program. Standard Solitaire but with a variety of card deck options and the possibility to design your own deck.
The Solitaire Now site offers a customisable shareware Freecell game and a collection of links to other shareware and freeware Solitaire games for various platforms.
Nabisco World has three Solitaire games (Calculation, Freecell, Solitaire) which can be played online.
The Wicked Phone Games site has a range of games to be played on mobile phones including the card games IQ Poker, Patience, Poker, Toy Solitaire, Toy Poker.
The SkinToys 2.0 package, obtainable free from the downloads section of www.skinux.com, includes a free Solitaire game.
From CoGS Games you can obtain Kitty Cat Solitaire and Bikini Solitaire.
Here is a link to Ake Norden's program Patiens for Windows 95.
From the Zayante Creek site you used to be able to obtain Sammy Caras' Poker Solitaire program, and it may reappear.
Here is the home page of Silver Creek Entertainment, creators of the "Hardwood Solitaire" computer programs (Windows and Macintosh versions available).
The Game Bonus site offers on line games of Tri-Peak Solitaire, Siege 21, Pyramid Solitaire and 5x5 Poker to play for fun or prizes.
Spellarama Solitaire Mania is a computer solitaire game using letter cards to complete words of a given length.
On the Kaartspellen online site, you can play on line versions of two Dutch Solitaire games: Stapelen and Elven.
Rules (in French) for La loi Salique and Pyramide are available from Jean-François Bustarret's site.
Tim Winter's Game Suite a collection of nine solitaire card games - not traditional solitaire games but games in which you race against a clock.
Here are Mike Lalena's Java Games: Eleven Out, Fun21, Poker Flash, Quick21 and others. Again, these are games played against the clock. Most of them were originally developed for the coin operated touch screen game systems usually found at bars.
Dark 21, a free program based on the classic "fun 21" card game is available from darkwet.net.
Game Gate also offers Java games to play against the server, including two card-based games: Poker and Lucky Cards.
Note - links to Video Poker games have been moved from here to the new Video Poker page. Links to Tile Matching games are now on the Tile Matching page.
Last updated 14th July 2008
