FreeCell Solitaire
By Frank Force · MIT license. Source · All credits
About FreeCell Solitaire
FreeCell, the solitaire variant where every card is face up from the start, so nothing is hidden and almost every deal can be solved. Four free cells give you room to manoeuvre. There is undo if a move turns out badly.
How to play
Drag a card onto another card, a free cell or a foundation pile.
Rules of FreeCell Solitaire
- All fifty-two cards are dealt face up into eight columns. There are four free cells at the top left and four foundations at the top right.
- Because every card is visible from the start, almost every FreeCell deal can be solved with correct play. There is no luck of the draw once it is dealt.
- Within the columns you build downward in alternating colours, so a red seven goes on a black eight.
- A free cell holds exactly one card of any rank, as a temporary parking space.
- Foundations build upward by suit from ace to king. Filling all four wins the game.
- You may only move one card at a time. Moving a run of several cards works by using the empty free cells and empty columns behind the scenes, so the length you can move depends on how many of each are free.
- An empty column is the most valuable thing on the board. Think hard before filling one.
Controls
- Drag a card to move it
- Four free cells hold one card each
What makes it worth playing
- FreeCell, where almost every deal can be solved
- Four free cells as temporary parking
- Build the foundations from ace to king
- Everything is visible from the start, so it is pure planning
Screenshots
Captured from this build on 2026-08-26.
Tips from playing it
- Plan the whole sequence before you move anything. Free cells fill up faster than you expect.
- An empty column is worth more than an empty free cell. It holds a whole run.
- Do not fill the last free cell unless you can see the move that empties it again.
Why this game is here, and what we changed
Picked from the MIT-licensed LittleJS Arcade by Frank Force after checking the licence at source rather than trusting the repository label, and after confirming the game makes no requests to any other site. We host it on our own servers, so it loads straight into the game with no third-party ad code and no pre-roll video. We played it through on a real phone-sized screen on 2026-08-26 before publishing this page, and the screenshots above are from that session rather than from the original project.
More on how we pick and fix these: what we changed in the open-source games and how we test a game.
- Category
- Card
- Plays in
- Your browser, no download
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Players
- One player.
- Difficulty
- Hard to lose with patience, easy to lose in a hurry
- Typical session
- 6 to 15 minutes a game
- Last tested by us
- 2026-08-26
- Created by
- Frank Force (MIT)
