How to play a card
Only the card at the foot of a column can move, and only when it is one rank above or below the waste card. Suits are irrelevant from start to finish.
Golf Solitaire — a round in two minutes
Golf is the quickest Solitaire on the site. Thirty-five cards sit in seven short columns, and you clear them onto a single waste pile one rank at a time. Rounds are short enough that a bad deal costs you nothing.
Play Golf SolitaireKings and Aces
This version wraps the sequence, so a King plays onto an Ace and an Ace onto a King. That single rule turns a lot of dead positions into long clearing chains.
The stock
When nothing fits, turn a new card from the stock. Seventeen stock cards is all you get; run out with tableau cards left and the hole is over.
Tips that actually help
- Check what a card exposes before you take it — depth beats a quick clear.
- Work the deepest columns down first; one long leftover column is what usually loses.
- When two cards fit, take the one that opens a rank you can already see elsewhere.
- Count the stock: each turn spent is one fewer chance to restart a chain.
Common questions
- How long does a round take?
- Usually one to three minutes, which is why Golf is the go-to for a short break.
- Can I move cards between columns?
- No. In Golf every card goes to the waste pile; columns are never rebuilt.
- What counts as a good result?
- Clearing all thirty-five cards wins. Short of that, the fewer cards left on the green the better.