Games
Bid Whist
Partnership whist with bidding, a kitty, uptown/downtown and no-trump.
Blackjack
Beat the dealer to 21 with chips on the line. Up to five seats.
Canasta
Classic Canasta: meld sets with wild cards, build canastas and go out. Four players in partnerships, or two.
Canfield
Empty your 13-card reserve and build the foundations from a rank chosen by the deal.
Cheat
Play cards face-down and claim the rank. Bluff - or call out a liar!
Clock Patience
A game of pure luck: follow the clock until the fourth King appears.
Crazy Eights
Match suit or rank, eights are wild. First to empty their hand wins.
Cribbage
Peg your way around the board to 121: play to 15 and 31, then count hands and crib.
Durak
Attack, defend and pile on. The last player left holding cards is the fool.
Euchre
Partnership trick-taking with a 24-card deck, bowers and a turned-up trump.
Forty Thieves
Two decks, ten columns, one pass through the stock. Build eight foundations from Ace to King.
FreeCell
All cards face up. Use four free cells to untangle the columns.
Gin Rummy
Two-player rummy: draw, discard, and knock when your unmatched cards total 10 or less.
Go Fish
Ask for ranks, fish from the pond and collect the most books of four.
Golf
Clear the seven columns by playing cards one rank above or below the waste.
Hearts
Avoid hearts and the Queen of Spades; low score wins.
Texas Hold'em
No-limit poker: two hole cards, five community cards, best five-card hand wins the pot.
Klondike
The classic solitaire: build four foundations from Ace to King.
Memory
Flip two cards per turn, remember where they are and collect the most matching pairs.
Oh Hell!
Bid exactly how many tricks you will take; hands grow then shrink.
Old Maid
Draw blind from your neighbour, pair up and don't get stuck with the odd queen.
President
Climb the ladder: beat the last play with the same number of higher cards. 2s are highest.
Pyramid
Clear the pyramid by removing pairs of cards that add up to 13.
Rainbow Rush
Match colour or symbol, play action cards and wilds. First to empty their hand wins.
Rummy 500
Meld sets and runs, take deep into the discard pile, and race to 500 points.
Snap
Play cards in turn and shout Snap when two in a row match.
Spades
Partnership trick-taking: bid your tricks, spades are trump.
Speed
A real-time race: play cards one rank up or down onto the centre piles and empty your hand first.
Spider
Build eight complete King-to-Ace runs in the same suit.
Tri-Peaks
Clear three peaks by playing cards one rank above or below the waste card.
War
Flip cards; the higher card takes both. Ties start a war!
Whist
Classic partnership trick-taking; the last card dealt names trump.
Yukon
Klondike's cousin: move any face-up group of cards, whether or not it is in sequence.
Free online card games
Every game here is free and runs in your browser, with nothing to download. There are 10 solitaire games to play on your own and 23 table games for two or more players, where bots at easy, medium or hard fill any empty seat.
Not sure what to play? Pick a collection below: games for a set number of players, easy games to learn, partnership games, or the strategy games that reward careful play.