Amazing Klondike Solitaire

The goal of Amazing Klondike Solitaire is to move all the cards to the four foundation piles located in the upper right corner of the game board.

You can place cards from the lowest (Ace) to the highest (King) card on the four foundation piles. Each foundation must be filled with cards of the same suit and placed in sequential order.

You can place only a King card or a pile of cards with a King on an empty tableau.

There as five tableaux or columns of cards below the foundations on which you can stack cards in descending order from the highest (King) to the lowest (Ace). Here, each card must be placed in alternating order by color between red and black.

You can move single cards or multiple cards by dragging them between piles. Any number of cards can be moved from one tableau to another. For assistance and to speed the game up, single click on a card and then the game will try to move it to the best possible position for you.

In some cases, you may want to move the cards from the foundations back to the columns. You can do this simply by dragging them to the target destination.

To draw a card from the deck, click on the top of it. Depending on your chosen game mode it will reveal one, two or three cards.

You can undo and redo an unlimited number of moves. Simply click on the undo or redo button at the bottom of the menu when needed.

There is also a Hint button to use if you ever get stuck.

There are more settings under the menu panel. If selected, Automove and Show Moves will help to speed up the game for you. You can also play a more relaxed game by turning off Scores and Time spent. Customize your game to just how you like it!

Have fun and good luck playing Amazing Klondike Solitaire!

Of all the variants of card Solitaire games, "Klondike" solitaire is the most common. The game was originally popularized as a casino game by a man named Richard Canfield. Canfield is famous for developing the model of what we consider the modern day resort casino. In the late 19th century, Canfield, who had previously been jailed for hosting illegal gambling in Rhode Island, purchased the Saratoga Clubhouse in Saratoga Springs, New York. Over the next few decades, Canfield turned the Saratoga Clubhouse into what many considered to be the American version of the Monte Carlo Casino.

During his time overseeing the casino at the Saratoga Clubhouse, Canfield would have players "buy a deck" for $52 ($1 for every card in the deck) and start playing a round of Klondike solitaire. They would then earn $5 for every card in their deck that they were able to put away in the foundation piles.

Funny enough, even though many referred to "Klondike" solitaire as "Canfield" solitaire, Richard Canfield himself called the game "Klondike". The origin of that name refers to the Klondike area of Canada where a massive gold rush occurred between 1896 and 1899. The official rules for modern day Klondike solitaire first appeared in the 1907 edition of "Hoyle's Games". This book chronicled the rules of hundreds of card and board games. In this edition, Klondike was referred to as "Seven-card Klondike", but by the 1913 edition it was called just "Klondike" and any gambling related rules were taken out. The gamblers' version of it was renamed "Canfield".

Klondike Solitaire got a whole new wave of popularity when it was included in the Windows 3.0 operating system in 1990. A summer intern named Wes Cherry first developed it during his internship in 1988. Microsoft intended to use Klondike Solitaire (or just "Solitaire" as it became known) to teach users how to navigate the operating system via mouse actions. The idea of clicking, dragging, and dropping were all new concepts to the millions of people starting up a PC for the first time in the 90s. By putting in a fun game that made a person use these actions to play it, Microsoft essentially gave the world a tutorial on how to use a computer without them even realizing it!