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Large Print Solitaire: Big Cards, Free, No Ads

Nineteen solitaire games with big, easy-to-read cards, free in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. No ads, no sign-up and nothing to download.

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Our solitaire cards at the size most computers and tablets show them, stacked in a column as you’d see them in a game. The last two are from the optional four-color deck.

What makes it large print

• The cards fill your screen. They aren’t a fixed small size: each game works out how many columns it needs and makes the cards as wide as your screen allows.
• Big numbers in the corner. The number on each card is close to half as wide as the card itself, with the suit right next to it, so you can read a card at a glance even when it’s half covered in a column.
• Text made for low vision. Everything on the site is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface the Braille Institute designed so that letters and numbers that look alike are easy to tell apart.
• A four-color deck if you want it. Turn it on in the Menu and diamonds turn blue and clubs green, so hearts and diamonds never get mixed up.
• Large print and high contrast switches. In any game’s Menu, Large print cards makes the number and suit bigger still: on a phone held upright, the numbers in Spider and FreeCell grow by about three quarters, with the suit under the number. High contrast gives pure white cards with a black edge on a darker table, so overlapping cards are easy to tell apart.
• Tap, don’t drag. Tap a card and the game moves it to the best place for you. No dragging small cards across the screen. If you’d rather choose the spot yourself, pick “Let me pick where” in the Menu.
• Undo as often as you like, and a Hint button that shows you a good move when you’re stuck.
• Deals you can win. In 13 of the games you can ask for winnable deals only; the computer checks each one before you see it.
• Your game is saved. Close the page and come back later: the game is where you left it, on the same device and browser.

Which solitaire to play

All nineteen are free and work the same way. If you are new to solitaire, start with one of the gentle games or with Klondike.

Gentle and quick

• Clock SolitaireNo decisions at all: just turn the cards and see if the clock comes out.
• Golf SolitairePlay a card one higher or lower than the pile. A few minutes a game.
• TriPeaks SolitaireLike Golf, with three peaks to clear. Long chains are the fun.
• Pyramid SolitaireRemove pairs that add up to 13. Good for practising sums.
• Aces UpThrow cards away until only the four Aces are left. Big cards, only four columns.

The classics

• Klondike SolitaireThe one most people call “Solitaire”. Draw one card at a time, or three.
• Spider SolitaireTwo decks, ten columns. One suit is relaxing; four suits is hard.
• FreeCellEvery card face up, almost every deal can be won. A game of thinking ahead.
• SpideretteSpider with one deck and seven columns, so the cards are bigger.
• Canfield SolitaireA fast classic, with a reserve pile feeding the table. Only four columns, so big cards.

For a challenge

• Yukon SolitaireNo deck to draw from; move any face-up card with the cards on top of it.
• Wasp SolitaireBuild each suit from King to Ace in the columns. The friendlier Scorpion.
• Scorpion SolitaireLike Wasp, but only a King can fill an empty column.
• Russian SolitaireYukon’s tougher cousin: build in the same suit.
• Baker’s GameThe older, harder FreeCell: build in the same suit.
• Eight OffEight free cells, same-suit building, and only Kings in empty columns.
• Beleaguered CastleThe Aces start home and every card is face up. Pure planning.
• Seahaven TowersFreeCell with ten columns, building in the same suit.
• Forty ThievesTwo decks, forty cards face up in ten columns. Patience needed.

How to make the cards even bigger

• Turn on Large print cards in the Menu. It works in every game and stays on for the whole site.
• Turn your phone sideways. Held upright, a phone has to fit seven columns into a narrow screen. Turned sideways, the Klondike cards on a typical phone more than double in width.
• Use a tablet or a computer. On a tablet the cards are about twice as wide as on a phone held upright.
• Zoom in on a computer. Press Ctrl and + (on a Mac, ⌘ and +) a couple of times. The game redraws itself to fit, so the cards grow with the zoom: at 150% they are about half as big again. Ctrl and 0 puts it back.
• Pick a game with fewer columns. The fewer columns a game has, the wider each card can be. Aces Up and Canfield have the biggest cards on a phone; Spider, Seahaven Towers and Forty Thieves have ten columns, so they are best on a tablet or computer.
• Turn on the four-color deck in the Menu if red suits are hard to tell apart.

Common questions