The hand-drawn card game that took Google's homepage by storm - now playable any time, right here. Shuffle the deck, stack the columns, and beat the odds.
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Tip: move all cards to the four foundation piles - Ace through King by suit - to win.
Everything that makes Doodle Solitaire worth coming back to.
The card logic you already know - deal from the stock, build columns in alternating colors, move aces to foundations and work up to kings.
Hand-drawn, sketch-style cards and suits give the game a warmth that slick digital decks just can't match. It feels personal and light-hearted.
Zero accounts, zero installs. Open the page and your game starts in seconds - no setup, no waiting, no friction.
Drag with a mouse or tap on a touchscreen - the layout adapts gracefully from a widescreen monitor down to a pocket-sized phone.
Each shuffle produces a unique hand. Restart as many times as you like - no score penalty, no energy system, no limits.
Toggle the theme with the switch in the header. Easy on the eyes at night, crisp and clean during the day - your preference is saved.
New to solitaire or just brushing up? Here's the whole game in four steps.
The game deals 28 cards into 7 tableau columns. Only the topmost card in each column starts face-up. The remaining 24 cards sit face-down in the stock pile in the upper left corner.
Drag a face-up card onto any column where the top card is one rank higher and the opposite color - for example, a red 7 goes on a black 8. Moving a card flips the one beneath it face-up, opening new plays.
When an Ace appears, move it to one of the four foundation slots. Stack that suit in order - 2, 3, 4… up to King. The goal is to fill all four foundations to win.
If no tableau moves are available, click the stock pile to draw a new card. Cards you can't use cycle to a waste pile and become available again when the stock runs out.
Doodle Solitaire grew out of one of Google's most beloved interactive homepage moments. When the solitaire doodle appeared, millions of people discovered - or rediscovered - how satisfying it is to spend a quiet fifteen minutes moving cards around a virtual felt table. The hand-drawn style set it apart from every polished casino clone on the internet.
What keeps it sticky? Probably the same thing that made physical solitaire a staple of rainy afternoons for centuries. The game has just enough strategy to feel meaningful and just enough randomness to stay fresh. Some deals are tight puzzles that reward careful planning. Others open up quickly into easy wins. You rarely know which type you have until a few moves in.
This page keeps that experience alive and accessible without fuss. No accounts, no timers, no paywalls. Just the deck, the felt, and as many games as you want to play - whenever you want to play them.
Solitaire isn't all luck. A few habits shift how often you finish a game. Start by uncovering face-down cards before anything else - every hidden card is potential energy waiting to be released, and flipping them early multiplies your options.
Avoid parking a King in an empty column until you have a useful sequence ready to attach. Empty columns are your most valuable resource in the middle of a game. Burning one on a lone King with nothing trailing it usually stalls your progress shortly after.
When drawing from the stock, look for tableau moves first. Drawing can reveal what you need, but it also buries the cards below. Take a board move when you see one, and treat the stock as a way to break a genuine deadlock rather than a first resort.
Finally, don't rush the foundations. It's counterintuitive, but holding a low card in the tableau a little longer can give you more stacking flexibility in the columns. Send cards up when it genuinely helps - not just because you can.