What is the difference between draw one and draw three?

Draw one turns a single card from the stock and is the forgiving version: almost every deal is winnable. Draw three turns three and you may only play the top one, which means the order of the stock matters and a good proportion of deals cannot be won at all. Both are in the Game menu.

Is every deal winnable?

No, and any site claiming otherwise is either only dealing solvable games or not counting. Roughly four in five draw-one deals go out with good play; draw three is considerably harsher. Every deal here has a number, shown under Help, so a deal you liked can be played again.

As far back as you like, all the way to the deal. Undo replays the game one move shorter rather than reversing the last move, so it cannot get out of step with the board.

Why did Solitaire ship with Windows?

It shipped with Windows 3.0 in 1990, and it was mouse training disguised as a game. Dragging a card from one pile to another taught click, drag, drop and release to a generation who had only ever used a keyboard. It is probably the most successful piece of interface teaching ever written, and nobody who played it noticed they were being taught.

PLAY · OPEN SHELF

Play Solitaire

Klondike, draw one or draw three, and the cascade when you win. It runs in the browser, it costs nothing, and finishing a game pays bits into the Bit Bank.

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MOVES 0 · DRAW 1NO BITS YET

Contour field plate, an interference landscape banded into iso-lines, ink-soft on bone — FIG. — FROM THE MANUAL · PLACEHOLDER PLATE

How it works

Press START, or hit a key. There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
Keyboard or touch, whichever is in front of you.
Finish a game and the bits land in the Bit Bank on the way out.

Questions, answered honestly

What is the difference between draw one and draw three?: Draw one turns a single card from the stock and is the forgiving version: almost every deal is winnable. Draw three turns three and you may only play the top one, which means the order of the stock matters and a good proportion of deals cannot be won at all. Both are in the Game menu.
Is every deal winnable?: No, and any site claiming otherwise is either only dealing solvable games or not counting. Roughly four in five draw-one deals go out with good play; draw three is considerably harsher. Every deal here has a number, shown under Help, so a deal you liked can be played again.
Can I undo?: As far back as you like, all the way to the deal. Undo replays the game one move shorter rather than reversing the last move, so it cannot get out of step with the board.
Why did Solitaire ship with Windows?: It shipped with Windows 3.0 in 1990, and it was mouse training disguised as a game. Dragging a card from one pile to another taught click, drag, drop and release to a generation who had only ever used a keyboard. It is probably the most successful piece of interface teaching ever written, and nobody who played it noticed they were being taught.