Daily Solitaire Challenge

Daily Solitaire gives everyone the same deal of Klondike Solitaire each day, turning one card at a time from the stockpile. Every deal is checked to make sure it can be won, the deals get harder from Monday to Sunday, and a new one arrives at midnight your time. Win each day’s deal to build your streak, then share your result with friends.

How Daily Solitaire Works

Each calendar day has one deal, and it’s the same for every player on that date. The deals are numbered, so Daily #1 was the first one and the number goes up by one every day.

• Your first game is your first try. It starts with your first move, and it’s the game that will count for the daily leaderboard. If you restart or deal again before you win, the rest of your games don’t count for the leaderboard, but they do count toward your winning streak.
• Practice as much as you like. You can replay today’s deal as often as you want, and a practice win still counts toward your streak.
• Undo and Hint are allowed. Each one counts as a move and as a penalty, just as in regular Klondike, so it lowers your score.
• A new deal arrives at midnight. The countdown in the game bar uses the time on your device, so the day changes at midnight where you are.
• Every past deal stays open. Choose Replay past days under the board to play any deal back to Daily #1 as practice. Replays don’t change your streak.

Every Daily Deal Is Winnable

Every daily deal comes from our bank of Winnable Klondike deals. Before a deal joins the bank, a computer solver plays it to a win. That winning line is then replayed with the same rules this page uses, and the deal only goes in if the replay ends with all four foundations full.

Winnable doesn’t mean easy, so each deal is also rated for difficulty. We play it two ways, using only the cards a player could see. First we follow the Hint button from start to finish, and then we play it many more times by picking sensible moves at random. Deals that the Hint wins in fewer moves and that random play often wins are rated easier, and the week is scheduled from easiest to hardest.

• Monday and Tuesday are Very Easy and Easy. They’re good days to start a streak, and following the Hint is enough to win them.
• Wednesday and Thursday are Medium and Tricky. Expect to dig deeper for buried cards and to go through the stockpile more often.
• Friday and Saturday are Hard and Harder. There are fewer safe moves, and more lines run into dead ends.
• Sunday is the Hardest. Following the Hint wins some of these deals but not all of them, so plan ahead and use Undo when a line doesn’t work out.

Build Your Daily Streak

Your streak is the number of days in a row you’ve won that day’s deal. A win on your first try and a practice win both count, as long as you win on the day itself. Miss a day and your streak starts again from zero, but your best streak is kept.

The panel under the board shows this week’s deals, marked as won, not won, or not played. Your streak also shows in the game bar here and in the Daily link on our other game pages, so you can keep an eye on it while you play something else. Each daily game keeps its own streak.

After a win, use Challenge a friend to send your result. It shows the puzzle number, your time, and your streak once it reaches three days, but never the cards, so it won’t spoil the deal for anyone. For now, streaks are saved in the browser you play on, so clearing your browsing data resets them.

Today’s Leaderboard

A daily leaderboard is coming soon. It will rank each player’s first try on the same deal, so you can see how your time and score compare. Until then, daily games don’t count toward the regular Klondike leaderboard or your saved stats.

Tips for a Faster Score

Your score rewards speed and efficiency, so it goes up the fewer moves you make and the less time you take. Every card you move, every card you turn from the stockpile, and every Undo or Hint counts as a move. Undo, Hint, each pass back through the stockpile, and moving a card off a foundation also count as penalties. Learn more about how Solitaire is scored.

• Turn up face-down cards first. Start with the longest columns in the tableau, since they hide the most cards. When two cards could make the same move, move the one sitting on more face-down cards.
• Play Aces and Twos right away. The tableau never needs them, so sending them to the foundations is always safe.
• Don’t empty a column without a King to fill it. Only a King can go into an empty column, so a space with no King waiting doesn’t help.
• Keep useful cards in the tableau. A card on a foundation can no longer hold the next-lower cards of the other color. For example, keep the 5♥ in the tableau while the 4♠ or 4♣ still needs a place to go.
• Go through the stockpile with a plan. Each pass back through it is a penalty, so make every play you can from the waste pile before you turn the next card.