Other Games
Patience games are the ones you play while thinking about something else, which is exactly why it helps to have more than one in rotation. This page is a shortlist of 19 games worth adding - all free, all instant in the browser, none of them asking you to download or sign up for anything.
They fall into five groups. Puzzle and arcade games reward reading a crowded board under time pressure. The card games swap that for a slower, information-driven kind of thinking. Board and tile games take the clock away entirely, dice games put the randomness in the foreground where you can see it, and there is one tool at the end that is genuinely useful away from a screen.
| Game | Kind | Why it is on this list | Go |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tetris | Puzzle & Arcade | Eleven ways to play the falling-block game, from a calm endless mode to 20G instant gravity. | Play Tetris online → |
| Puzzle | Puzzle & Arcade | Logic grids, sliding tiles, matching boards and number puzzles - the natural next stop when you want a break from falling blocks but not from thinking. | Play free puzzle games → |
| Mahjong | Puzzle & Arcade | Clear the board by matching free tiles, across layouts from the classic Turtle to the brutal Dragon. | Play Mahjong online → |
| Pac-Man | Puzzle & Arcade | Dots, power pellets and four pursuers with four different targeting routines. | Play Pac-Man online → |
| FreeCell | Card Games | Every card face up from the first move, four free cells and a solvable deal - the most chess-like member of the solitaire family. | Play FreeCell online → |
| Hearts | Card Games | Duck every heart and the queen of spades - or take the lot and hand the points to everyone else. | Play Hearts online → |
| Spades | Card Games | Partnership trick-taking built around a contract you announce before the first card. | Play Spades online → |
| Rummy | Card Games | Build sets and runs and go out before your opponents, across the classic Rummy variants. | Play Rummy online → |
| Gin Rummy | Card Games | Ten cards, one draw, and a running argument with yourself about when to knock. | Play Gin Rummy online → |
| Canasta | Card Games | Partnership melding with scoring deep enough that people still argue about it. | Play Canasta online → |
| Blackjack | Card Games | Classic, Vegas Strip, Atlantic City, Spanish 21, Double Exposure, Switch, Pontoon and more - free chips, no real gambling. | Play Blackjack online → |
| Checkers | Board & Tile | Compulsory capture turns every sacrifice into a forced sequence you can calculate to the end. | Play Checkers online → |
| Reversi | Board & Tile | A minute to learn, and an endgame decided by mobility and parity rather than material. | Play Reversi online → |
| Dominoes | Board & Tile | Tile matching with a scorekeeper's edge - the closest cousin Tetris has among traditional games, since both are really about what fits where. | Play Dominoes online → |
| Ludo | Board & Tile | Race four tokens home, and learn to count the six squares behind each of them. | Play Ludo online → |
| Tic Tac Toe | Board & Tile | Three in a row, plus the larger grids and inverted rules where it stops being trivial. | Play Tic Tac Toe online → |
| Yahtzee | Dice & Casino | The dice-and-scorecard classic, where the upper-section bonus quietly decides most games. | Play Yahtzee online → |
| Craps | Dice & Casino | Eight variants and one bet on the table that carries no house edge at all. | Play Craps online → |
| Chess Clock | Tools | A free browser clock that makes draughts, dominoes and Scrabble move a great deal faster. | Use a free online chess clock → |
Staying put?
Nothing on this page has to replace Solitaire. If you would rather stay, the main game is one click away, the rules hub covers how everything works, and the FAQ answers the common questions.
Common questions
Are they free, or is there a catch?
They are free in the same way Solitaire.now is free: every mode, every daily challenge and every leaderboard, with no paywall, no trial and no download. The card and casino titles use play money only - there is no real gambling in any of them.
What other free games can I play?
Nineteen are listed on this page, all free in the browser with no download and no signup. They cover puzzle and arcade games, a full card cabinet, board and tile games, dice games and a free chess clock. Every one of them plays instantly as a guest.
Do I need an account to play them?
No. Every game listed here plays instantly as a guest, exactly like Solitaire.now. Where a free account exists it is optional, and it only ever saves your scores, times and streaks across devices - it is never a gate in front of the game.
Which of these is closest to Solitaire?
The first group on this page is ordered with the closest relatives first, so start at the top. Beyond that it depends what you like about Solitaire - the puzzle and tile games reward reading a board, the card games reward counting and memory, and the dice games put the randomness in the foreground where you can see it.