Card and Board Games
Card and board games are the quiet corner of the site. Deal a hand of solitaire, clear a mahjong layout tile by tile, bid your tricks in spades or try to finish peg solitaire with a single peg. No reflexes required - these are games for thinking at your own pace.
Solitaire, mahjong and other classics
Most games here are digital versions of things people have played for generations. Spider Solitaire and Magic Solitaire are patience games in the traditional sense, where you sort cards into ordered runs. Mahjong Earth and Garden Tales Mahjong 2 are mahjong solitaire: pairs of matching tiles are removed from a stacked layout until nothing is left.
Spades is the one game in the group with opponents, a four-player trick-taking game in which the computer supplies your partner and both rivals. Cards 2048 and Peg Solitaire sit closer to puzzles, built on merging numbers and jumping pegs. Every game here is played for fun only; none of them involves money.
Playing well without rushing
The habit that improves results in almost every one of these games is the same: before taking an obvious move, look for the move that uncovers something. In solitaire that means turning a face-down card. In mahjong it means choosing the pair that frees the most tiles.
Nearly all of these games let you undo, shuffle or ask for a hint. Use them to learn. Seeing why a hint suggests a particular move teaches you more than struggling on without one.