Every deal is guaranteed winnable — no more dead hands.
Cards Cafe is a free online Klondike Solitaire you can play right in your browser — no download, no sign-up, no ads, on desktop or phone. What makes it different: every deal we hand you is solver-verified winnable, so a loss is always a beatable mistake, never a bad shuffle.
Klondike — also called Patience or classic Solitaire — is the single-player card game most people mean when they say "solitaire". You clear a shuffled deck by building four foundation piles up from Ace to King, one for each suit, moving cards through seven tableau columns and a draw pile along the way.
The full ruleset, in order — this is the whole game.
In a normal shuffled deck about 1 in 5 Klondike deals is impossible to solve no matter how well you play — the single most common complaint players have about solitaire apps. We check every deal with a solver before we hand it to you and only ever deal from a pool that has a proven win. So when you get stuck here, the win was there to be found — it never was a dead hand.
With a normal deck roughly 82% of Draw-1 Klondike deals are theoretically winnable and about 18% are dead on arrival; good players win around a third to 40% in practice, and Draw-3 far less. At Cards Cafe the winnable figure is 100% — the only thing between you and the win is the play itself.
Normally no — about 18% of shuffled Klondike deals cannot be won no matter how you play. At Cards Cafe, yes: every deal is solver-verified winnable before it's dealt.
About 82% of Draw-1 deals are theoretically winnable and players win roughly a third to 40% in practice. Because our deals are all winnable, your ceiling is 100% — it comes down to skill.
Normally both — a bad shuffle can beat you. With winnable-only deals it becomes pure skill: the win is always there to find.
No. It plays instantly in your browser, and you can install it as an app (PWA) to play offline — no account, no download.
Yes, completely free, and no ads.
Yes — unlimited undo, and you can run through the stock as many times as you like.
Draw 1 turns one stock card at a time and is easier with a higher win rate; Draw 3 turns three at once and is much harder. Cards Cafe plays Draw 1.
Yes — it's built mobile-first and works by tap or drag on any modern phone, tablet or computer.
It's named after the Klondike Gold Rush region, where the game is said to have spread among prospectors in the 1890s.