Classic builders
These games focus on moving cards into ordered foundations, often with tableau rules around colour, suit, or rank. Klondike, FreeCell, Yukon, Canfield, and Easthaven all fit here.
Solitaire guide
Find the right solitaire game for how you like to play.
Solitaire.City includes classic patience games, pairing games, and larger two-deck variants. If you want fast rules, strategic differences, and direct links into the playable versions, this page is the quickest way to browse the collection.
Need help before picking a variant? Use the rules guide, strategy hub, and solitaire glossary to compare the core ideas behind each game.
This guide is curated for discovery and intent matching: quick pairing games, medium-length builders, and deep two-deck patience variants all live on one index so players can move from broad search terms to the exact table they want.
Pairing and removal games
Instead of building long sequences, these variants ask you to clear layouts by matching values or ranks. Pyramid, Baroness, Decade, Nestor, and Elevens are good examples.
Two-deck patience games
These tend to have deeper layouts, more foundations, and longer decision chains. Crescent, Miss Milligan, Windmill, Virginia Reel, Royal Parade, Queen of Italy, Zodiac, and Emperor offer a bigger planning challenge.
How to use this directory
Start by choosing your play style: if you want open-information planning, begin with FreeCell-family games; if you want stock-pressure and hidden-card reveals, stay in the Klondike family; if you want shorter rounds, use removal games such as Pyramid, Baroness, and Elevens.
Every route here links to a playable board and a dedicated game page, then onward to a strategy guide where available. That structure is deliberate so each click reveals more practical detail instead of repeating the same summary text.
Recommended games to try next
- KlondikeBest place to start if you want the classic solitaire most players already know.
- FreeCellHigh-information solitaire where every card is visible and planning matters more than luck.
- SpiderLong-form tableau strategy with 1-suit, 2-suit, and 4-suit difficulty options.
- YukonA Klondike relative with no stock and unusual stack-moving freedom.
- CrescentA two-deck favourite with wraparound same-suit building and redeals.
- WindmillA two-deck reserve game with a center foundation and four descending corner foundations.
- TournamentTwo-deck patience with reserve slots, strict tableau access, and paired suit foundations built from aces and kings.
- Virginia ReelA strict +3 foundation game where empty row spaces must be filled immediately by base cards.
- Royal ParadeThe classic predecessor to Virginia Reel, with flexible delayed row-gap refills.
- ZodiacA larger two-phase patience game built around Equator cards and eight foundations.
- Leoni's OwnA two-deck weaving solitaire with dual-direction suit foundations and redeals.
Browse solitaire games by family
If you are comparing search intent, difficulty, or play style, this hub page should point players toward the most relevant next variant instead of making every route stand alone.
It also functions as the canonical category landing page for solitaire discovery. Rather than publishing thin near-duplicates, this page groups variants by mechanics and reading intent, then routes players to the exact game and strategy material they need.
Strategy deep dives now include FreeCell, Spider, Yukon, Scorpion, Pyramid, Canfield, and Easthaven.
Pyramid-family strategy pages now also include Relaxed Pyramid, Tut's Tomb, Apophis, Giza, and Triangle.
New variant help pages also cover Golf, Black Hole, Calculation, Baker's Dozen, Crescent, Miss Milligan, and Aces and Kings.
More strategy routes now cover Addition, Baroness, Decade, Elevens, Nestor, American Toad, Australian Patience, Backbone, Beetle, Big Ben, Birthday, Bristol, and Clock.
The latest companion guides extend that coverage to Braid, British Square, Carpet, Casket, Diplomat, Emperor, and Gay Gordons.
You can also jump straight to newer strategy help for Grampus, Napoleon at St Helena, Queen of Italy, Sir Tommy, Windmill, and Zodiac.
Compact puzzle-style guides also include Tower of Pisa for bottom-card sequencing and empty-column timing.
New Klondike-family strategy guides now include Agnes, Eagle's Wing, Nine Across, Somerset, Whitehead, Thumb and Pouch, and Kuiper.
Remaining variant companion guides now also include Czarina, Kings in the Corners, and Wildflower.
Spider-family strategy coverage also includes Relaxed Spider, Spiderette, Will O' the Wisp, Simple Simon, and Mrs. Mop.
Scorpion-family strategy pages now include Wasp and Three Blind Mice.
La Belle Lucie-family strategy pages now include Trefoil, The Fan, Three Shuffles and a Draw, and Shamrocks.
Fan family solitaire games
Classic builder solitaire games
Removal and pairing solitaire games
Spider and tableau challenge games
Long-form two-deck patience games
Need rules first?
If you are learning the most common variant, the Klondike help page covers setup, legal moves, foundations, and beginner strategy.