Summit Solitaire

Summit Solitaire is a free TriPeaks solitaire game you play online, right in your browser, in a sunlit alpine valley. Twenty-eight cards are dealt into three mountain peaks, with only the bottom row face up, and a single open card waits below. Clear the peaks by tapping any face-up card that is one rank higher or one rank lower than the open card: the cards that fit glow. Suits never matter, and the Ace and the King connect, so a run can climb from Queen to King to Ace to Two. It is the solitaire you know from classic card game collections, tuned into a quick solitaire challenge that fits into a two-minute break, with real pip cards, painted court cards and the snowy summits behind the peaks revealed as you clear them.

Every card you play lands on the open pile and becomes the next card to match, and every card that leaves the tableau can turn over the card it was covering. When nothing matches, tap the deck to draw a new open card. The deck holds 23 cards, so each draw counts. A deal ends when you clear all 28 cards or when the deck runs out with no move left, and the next deal is dealt straight away. There is no waiting and no game over screen between deals: the only question is how many summits you can strip before the clock runs out.

Scoring rewards long runs. Each card is worth 100 points times your streak multiplier, which grows as you play cards in a row without drawing: ×2 from the third card, ×3 from the fifth and all the way up to ×10. Only a draw from the deck ends your streak; tapping a card that does not fit costs you nothing. Clearing the top card of a peak adds 1,000 points, and clearing the whole deal adds 3,000 more plus 200 for every card still in the deck, which makes a fast clear worth far more than a slow one.

The game shows you exactly what you can do. Every card that fits on the open card glows, the open card tells you which ranks to look for, and when nothing fits the deck pulses so you know to draw. Your first game starts with three quick tips, and three peak icons at the top fill in as you clear the peaks. Every game climbs the same ladder of deals, from a gentle first deal that lets a newcomer clear the peaks to harder ones that reward planning, and only the way each deal is dressed changes from game to game: the ranks, the suits and the side of the layout. That makes every game exactly as hard as every other one, so a better score always means better play. The skill is in the order of your plays: when two cards match, pick the one that keeps the run going longest or turns over a face-down card, and save your draws for the moments when nothing fits.

Summit Solitaire is one of our card games and plays beautifully on a phone held sideways: tap a card to play it and tap the deck to draw. On a computer, click with the mouse or use the keyboard: the arrow keys move a highlight across the face-up cards, Space or the up arrow plays the highlighted card and the down arrow draws. Like all our quick games and brain games, it is free with no download, it makes a good pick among the free games to play at work, and a Ranked attempt puts your best run on the leaderboard after it is replayed and verified on our servers. Looking for more? Browse our solitaire games, competitive games and casual games for adults.