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Are Word Games Good for Your Mental Health?

06/07/2023

Do you ever feel like your mind is stuck in a rut? If so, it may be time to switch up your routine and try something new. Word games like Word Hurdle ...

Magical Metropolises: Sorting U.S. Cities into Hogwarts Houses

05/25/2023

The story of Harry Potter has captivated audiences worldwide for decades, igniting imaginations and whisking fans away on magical adventures. Fans of ...

New Navigation and Discovery for Solitaire Games

05/24/2023

Did you know on Solitaired, you can play over 500 different solitaire games? Chances are you didn't know this. While we make our most popular games ac...

Online Word Games That Are Good for Your Memory

05/09/2023

Are you looking for a fun way to keep your brain active? Playing online word games, like our Word Hurdle or Phrazle game, is a great way to stay sha...

Update to Personal Stats

05/03/2023

We know many of you love competing on our leaderboards, but we also know that with our solitaire games, you also compete against yourself. A few month...

The Cities with the Rudest Kids (According to Their Residents)

04/28/2023

Rude people come in all shapes, sizes, and even ages. Whether they’re disobeying rules or dropping “please” and “thank you” from their vocabulary,...

19 Fun 2-Player Card Games

03/29/2023

Playing card games alone is fun, but sometimes you want to play with a buddy. Luckily, you can choose from several 2-person card games that you can ea...

Top 7 Best Spider Solitaire Apps You Can Download

03/17/2023

Spider solitaire is one of the most famous versions of solitaire apps available for both Apple iOS and Android mobile users. Spider solitaire mobile g...

Download or print a Yahtzee scorecard

03/17/2023

While you can play Yahtzee online on Solitaired, you may like playing the original form of the game with dice. If that's the case, we've created a Yah...

Our Carbon Offset Program

03/16/2023

The team at Solitaired recognizes the importance of addressing the environmental impact of its business and operations. Online platforms like ours, de...

21 Easy Card Games for All Ages

03/03/2023

If you want to play a new card game without complicated rules, this post introduces easy and fun card games for the whole family that you can get star...

6 of the Best Trick-Taking Card Games

01/21/2023

Trick-taking games are engaging games that employ strategy like a board game but offer a more casual atmosphere, typically requiring just a standard d...

Top 7 FreeCell Apps To Download

01/05/2023

According to Statista, there are nearly 16 billion mobile phones in the world as of 2022. And of those, an estimated 1.7 billion are used to play mobi...

Survey: Americans’ Top Smartphone Apps of 2022

12/21/2022

For most people, their smartphone can contain everything: their bank account, connection to loved ones, and a form of entertainment. With so many diff...

14 Fun 3-Player Card Games

11/30/2022

Playing a single player card game like Solitaire is always fun, but sometimes you want to play with family or friends. Fortunately, you can play m...

Most Popular Female Video Game Character

11/28/2022

From classic games such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (1996) to more modern games like Bayonetta (2009), it appears very little has changed with the desi...

13 Single Player Card Games to Beat Boredom

10/25/2022

If you’ve got some time to kill, one of the best ways to do it is with a deck of cards. Whether you go online or use one or two decks of cards, we hav...

Study: Top Games To Keep Your Mind Sharp

10/18/2022

Love it or hate it, technology is an integral part of life. We use it for work, school, communication, shopping, and even wasting time when we’re bore...

5 clever hacks to help you win at Solitaire

07/27/2022

Ever since Microsoft launched solitaire on personal computers in the early 90s, it has remained a mainstay of digital gaming. It’s a st...

Which Tabletop Games Have the Most Cheaters?

07/15/2022

With the summer holidays coming up parents will be looking for family games to entertain their kids with. Once screentime has been used on their favor...

Favorite Retro Video and Computer Games by Generation

07/13/2022

Remember playing Oregon Trail when you faced almost certain death at the hands of anything from a river to dysentery? Or maybe you tried your shot at ...

Which Online PC Games Have the Most Cheaters?

07/05/2022

For as long as there have been games, there have been ways to cheat. Even in games such as Spider Solitaire, FreeCell, and Klondike hints can be ...

How to Play Solitaire At Work Without Your Boss Finding Out

03/27/2020

Probably to no one’s surprise, we’re big Solitaire fans. One of the best parts about Solitaire is how it can tuck into the downtime parts of your day...

Why we switched from Wordpress to Node.js

04/08/2021

This was not the post I planned to write. In fact, I had a draft I was about to publish - How to run Wordpress+SSL on AWS Lightsail SSL for Cheap. But...

101 Top Team Building Activities

03/29/2021

Team building exercises are an excellent way to bring people together and encourage them to think and act together as a team. Not only do they encour...

The Top 6 Psychological Benefits of Playing Solitaire

03/29/2021

Solitaire is one of the most well-known card games in the world, but what does it do other than pass the time? Whether you're playing klondike solitai...

Evolution of Playing Card Designs

03/27/2020

Most of the card prints below have never been put online before. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. French deck of Heraldry (18th century). (Gu...

Women’s History Month Solitaire Games

03/29/2021

Solitaire Games That Highlight Notable Women for Women’s History Month As part of Women’s History Month, we wanted to do something unique and relevant...

120 year old Anheuser Busch themed playing cards and solitaire game

04/09/2020

Needless to say, we created our online solitaire site because we love cards games, but we also created it because we love card designs. In an earlier ...

7 Strategies to Win Solitaire

04/26/2020

Solitaire (also known as Klondike Solitaire) is both one of the oldest and simplest card games in the world. But despite its simplicity on its face, t...

Smithsonian antique playing cards

07/05/2021

It’s no secret we created our online solitaire game because we love both card games and card designs. Not long ago, we had come across some Anheuser B...

ASU GSV Solitaire Game

03/29/2021

Prior to building Solitaired, we had spent our past lives building an education business called Imagine Easy Solutions. We were able to help millions ...

Heros of Space and Flight Cards and Solitaire Game

05/03/2022

Those individuals who led advances in both air and space travel are true heroes. They pushed the boundaries of innovation, inspiring us to believe any...

5 steps that decreased our bounce rate by a huge 41%

05/24/2021

When my mother in law told me the solitaire game she loved was no longer online, my friend and I thought that it might be a fun project to launch ou...

Websockets, Elastic Beanstalk, and Application Load Balancers - 2020 edition

12/29/2020

We've been working on some multiplayer capabilities for our classic card game site Solitaired, and have been exploring how to do this using Websockets...

The Ultimate Strategy Guide to Winning Solitaire

08/18/2020

Winning Solitaire is like solving a puzzle - you need to get the pieces where they belong. This site has loads of tips, ideas, and strategies, along w...

Turn 3 Solitaire Strategy

08/20/2020

Turn 3 Soitaire is an interesting version of Klondike Solitaire, in that it opens up new ways to solve the puzzle. How does this compare to 1-card dra...

Important Solitaire Terms

03/29/2021

To play solitaire, or other popular variations like Spider Solitaire or Freecell Solitaire, these key terms will help you understand how to play any s...

How to choose an online solitaire game

08/25/2020

When choosing a free online solitaire game , there are a few important features to consider. Using undo and redo Probably the best thing about comput...

Why Email Registration is Dead. How Removing it Improved Retention by a Surprising 4.5%

03/29/2021

In our last business, where we ran popular educational products like EasyBib, we learned the power of email registration. When users registered we fo...

Why play solitaire

03/29/2021

Solitaire along with its other popular variations like Spider and Freecell are one of the few card games with one of its core mechanics right there in...

Types of solitaire games

03/29/2021

Knowing what solitaire games exist and how they differ from one another enables you to choose the type that most appeals to your tastes and temperamen...

Popular solitaire games

03/29/2021

While Classic solitaire or Klondike solitaire is by far the most ubiquitous and what most people think when they hear solitaire, there are other pop...

Frequently asked questions about solitaire

03/29/2021

What is the best free solitaire app? The best apps will have cards that are easy to read and interact with on mobile, desktop, and tablet. It will al...

Why is Solitaire so fun and even addictive?

03/29/2021

Ah, Solitaire. It’s been used as an escape from work for decades, but it’s also one of the best ways to pass time if you are looking to develop a ski...

5 Ways Games Can Improve Learning

03/29/2021

Throughout the years, video games have been accused of leading to violence and addiction, especially in children. However, some studies have found th...

5 Great Solitaire Games You Must Try

10/16/2020

Solitaire card games are a popular form of entertainment. However, with over 500 variations of solitaire games, it can be overwhelming to choose which...

Political card decks over the centuries

10/30/2020

Playing cards have been around for much longer than any of us think. Even though the cards we use today are relatively recent, the earliest records of...

The Difference Between Hearts and Spades

10/06/2021

Card games have been around for quite a long time, with the earliest games dating back to about 1000 AD in China. Games have evolved quite a lot in th...

How To Play Tri Peaks Solitaire

03/29/2021

Solitaire is a great single-player card game that you can play to challenge yourself or to simply kill some time during a break. Most people are famil...

New Solitaire Features

03/29/2021

We’ve been hard at work improving our free online solitaire games. Our goal is to create one of the best destinations to have fun and play solitaire. ...

Killing Our Help Center Improved Customer Satisfaction And Revenue By Over 11%

03/29/2021

Being card game geeks, we run our solitaire site as a fun hobby. As we gained some users though over the last year and launched a subscription servic...

What the 2020 election taught us about user research

03/29/2021

By November 5, 2020, as election results continued to be tallied, it was becoming certain that Joe Biden would go on to become the winner of the 2020 ...

How to Play Hearts

03/29/2021

Hearts is an evasion-based trick-taking card game. To play it, you will need 3 to 6 players, although 4 is ideal. The game is played with a standard d...

How We Improved Employee Engagement and Retention over 24%

03/29/2021

We’ve always been believers that a great work culture will lead to positive results. Our thinking is simple: if you have fun at work and collaboratin...

How we improved our remote work productivity by 23%

03/29/2021

While many teams last year were suddenly thrown into the deep end and forced to figure out how to work successfully remotely, we already had a remote...

A Comprehensive History of Solitaire

04/02/2021

One-player card games are called by some form of the word ‘solitaire’ in some countries (US, Spain, Italy, etc), ‘patience‘ in others (UK, France, etc...

Happiness Inflation: How Much More Money Does It Take To Be Happy

03/29/2021

At Solitaired our mission is to provide moments of happiness in our often busy days. We ran a survey to learn more about how much more income people w...

Happiness Deficit: The Income Gap to be Happy

03/29/2021

When we ask our users why they come to Solitaired, their answer is simple: it makes them happy. It got us curious. What does it take to be happy. We q...

17 Reasons Why Games Are Good For Wellness And Productivity

04/12/2021

We all know that playing games, whether it be a board game, a video game or a team sport, can be a great way to pass the time and have fun - we have b...

Top 3 most popular card games of all time

10/06/2021

Did you know that playing card games has been a favorite past-time since the 9th century AD? For centuries people have been gathering together at part...

Online Gaming Terms Parents Should Know

07/05/2021

What does ‘IRL’ mean? Or how about ‘Owned’? Do you know your online gaming terms? We put together this quiz. Who knows, you might learn something! (Or...

9 Fun Facts About Playing Cards

06/02/2021

The standard deck of playing cards that we are so familiar with has undergone centuries of transformation to make it what it is today. Different cultu...

How Many Virtual Friends Did You Make During the Pandemic?

11/23/2021

We noticed that a lot of our users played more FreeCell during the pandemic, and that got us curious. What else changed in people's digital lives? Spe...

The Most Amazing Playing Card World Records

07/15/2021

Since playing cards were first created in the 9th Century AD, they have been entertaining people from all around the globe with games  like Class...

Employee productivity and workplace distraction statistics

09/09/2021

Many Americans take pride in a “work hard, play hard” mentality. Or at least we say we do. The question is, from Monday morning to Friday evening, how...

48% of Americans Have Experienced Pandemic Brain

01/13/2022

We received dozens of comments over the last year from users who told us how our games, from Spider Solitaire to Yahtzee to Mahjong, became an outlet ...

Smartphone usage and screen time statistics 2021

09/10/2021

Since the advent of smartphones, life has looked quite different for most Americans. The ways we consume and send information, the ways we entertain o...

The Great American History Quiz

10/07/2021

At Solitaired, while we love classic games like FreeCell and Spider Solitaire, we also love trivia too. We love anything that challenges you to think....

Smartphone addiction statistics 2021

10/19/2021

When historians look back, they’ll conclude boredom as we once knew it expired around 2010. With the emergence of smartphones, thousands of apps and g...

Online multiplayer gaming statistics 2022

12/13/2021

Study reveals the vibes—good and bad—in the most popular online gaming communities When you play games online, they can be simple and straightforward ...

Who wants to be a millionaire?

02/08/2022

At Solitaired, we believe playing games can help deliver happiness to our users. Whether it be Yahtzee, Hearts, or Mahjong, our games ensure you're no...

Workplace Distractions Survey: What distracts us most when we are on the clock?

03/16/2022

If you’re a fan of The Office, you might have seen Creed playing solitaire or other variations like spider on his computer. He could be powering up h...

Winning at Wordle: Understanding America’s Game Obsession

04/20/2022

Love it or hate it, Wordle is America’s latest game obsession. It’s spread like wildfire, and chances are you’ve seen green, yellow, and white boxes o...

A Visual Guide to the 25 Highest-Earning E-Gamers in the U.S.

04/22/2022

Time for a little trivia. What is the world’s fastest-growing sport? It’s not soccer. And it’s not pickleball (unless we’re only counting retirees). ...

Most Profitable Trading Cards

06/17/2022

Similar to Hearts or Spades, trading cards have been around for years, people of all ages love collecting them to play or trade with friends. As a res...