Klondike for iPhone
The classic card game, entirely offline — and it only ever deals you a game that can actually be won.
About one Klondike deal in five cannot be won by anyone, however well it is played. Most solitaire apps shuffle and hand it over regardless, so a game you lose may have been lost before you moved a single card.
This one checks first. Every shuffle is handed to a solver that plays it out, and the deal only reaches you once a winning line has been found. If you lose, you were beaten by the game and not by the shuffle.
What you get
Play the forgiving version or the hard one. In Draw 3 the waste is fanned out, so you can always see which cards came off the stock.
Every move can be taken back to the opening deal, and redone again. Face-down cards return to being face down, exactly as they were.
Suggestions are ranked by what actually advances a Klondike game — uncovering a face-down card first, and never breaking up a run for nothing. Ask again for the next best idea.
The app notices when a position is finished, including when the only card that could save you is still buried in the stock. It offers to rewind you to the last point where you genuinely had a choice.
Drag a card and it follows your finger; drop it anywhere near the pile you meant. Or tap to pick up and tap to place. Double-tap sends a card straight to its foundation.
Games played and won, your current streak and your best one. Stored on your iPhone, shown to nobody.
Sound, haptics and animations each switch off independently, so the game can be played in a waiting room without announcing itself.
Nothing to sign up for, nothing to dismiss, no prompt to rate it. Open the app and the cards are already there.
Solitaire has no networking code in it at all. Not for ads, not for analytics, not for downloading card designs — every card is drawn by the app as you look at it. Your game, statistics and settings are written to your iPhone and go nowhere else.
Details
Support
Questions, bugs and suggestions are welcome at [email protected]. Solitaire is made by Nando Davis.