https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198
Choose the design that matches your taste, and more importantly - your screen size!
If you would like to tweak it - open a Designer after selecting a preset and adjust any or all parameters.
Thank you, and your feedback is always appreciated!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sequence-feingames/id6747093331
In response to player's feedback (that the build-in Card Designer is too intimidating to use), I've build a few presets designed for different screen sizes.
If you would like to tweak it - open a Designer after selecting a preset and adjust any or all parameters.
Thank you, and your feedback is always appreciated!
https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198
Available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Completely free with no ads: No annoying interruptions. Don’t be concerned about “In-App purchases” - there is NO paywall or upsell. Tips are welcome!
Private: no tracking or data collection. Works offline!
Easy to navigate: letter indexed list, search, filter. Mark a handful of games as your favorites, hide the rest.
Unlimited Undos: Experiment with different moves without fear.
Hints: Get help when you're stuck.
Card Designer: An ultimate tool that allows you to create the deck YOU like!
Daily Challenge: compare on the “apples-to-apples” scores with other player. Same game for everybody in the world, for each game. Also playable offline - your score will be uploaded to the Game Center when connection is available.
Competitive: four leaderboards for each solitaire on Game Center: Number of Wins, Best Time, Longest Win Streak and Daily Challenge Streak.
Eye-friendly: trying to utilize your entire screen to maximize the card size.
Finger-friendly: customizable gesture assignment.
The collection includes all popular and some not-so-much games. Please comment here if you want YOUR favorite solitaire added!
https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198
Available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Completely free with no ads: No annoying interruptions. Don’t be concerned about “In-App purchases” - there is NO paywall or upsell. Tips are welcome!
Private: no tracking or data collection. Works offline!
Easy to navigate: letter indexed list, search, filter. Mark a handful of games as your favorites, hide the rest.
Unlimited Undos: Experiment with different moves without fear.
Hints: Get help when you're stuck.
Card Designer: An ultimate tool that allows you to create the deck YOU like!
Daily Challenge: compare on the “apples-to-apples” scores with other player. Same game for everybody in the world, for each game. Also playable offline - your score will be uploaded to the Game Center when connection is available.
Competitive: four leaderboards for each solitaire on Game Center: Number of Wins, Best Time, Longest Win Streak and Daily Challenge Streak.
Eye-friendly: trying to utilize your entire screen to maximize the card size.
Finger-friendly: customizable gesture assignment.
The collection includes all popular and some not-so-much games. Please comment here if you want YOUR favorite solitaire added!
This is most "vibrant" solitaire community I found online - not counting those around a very specific publisher.
Is the game dead? (It was suggested to me in another sub.)
It is both relaxing and brain-stimulating, depending on the variant you choose.
Quick win or long strategy battle - your choice.
I am patiently (pun intended) waiting for the Renaissance.
I publish free apps (games), trying to get some downloads.
Assumption was: who would pay for an unknown app if there are so many well-known, established competitors?
I also have no ads, and state this in the "Promo Text" in AppStore.
I do have a tip jar, which results in a somewhat ambiguous:
"In-App Purchases - Yes"
Am I doing it wrong?
Every day, a random shuffle is selected for each game, the same for everyone in the world.
https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198
A win on the challenge’s date is counted toward your streak.
You can make up past dates to fill your calendar, but the streak will not be affected.
Future dates are not available.
Every Daily Challenge win is marked in the calendar. Wins on the challenge date are highlighted.
Note that there are week, month and year modes.
Start your engines!
My app may be atypical. It’s a solitaire collection of almost 100 games.
I know for a fact that it is not unique in the scale either.
The issue is creating hundreds of Game Center Leaderboards.
I use separate boards for number of wins, best time, longest streak.
Developed a tool to create boards and add them to the proper sets via API - works OK.
Just added a new set, for the daily challenge. My tool created all 100 boards, easy.
The next step is to add them to review for submission. My attempt to automate that piece of API failed, even with Claude’s help :)
So what do you do for multiple boards?
Click on each board, wait for page update, click “Add…” button, wait for update with animated sliding panel, click on a field to close it, clic to go back to the set, wait for page update.
TRY to remember what board did you click last. Wasted some time on going into already added boards, missed a couple - that’s fun to figure out which ones.
Did that, took me almost 40 minutes of clicking and waiting. Submitted.
Unfortunately, noticed an issue in the code. Recalled the submission, fixed the issue, went to submit again.
Guess what - need to re-add all 100 boards again! I know, this was my fault…
So far I have 97 games. That includes relaxed version of many of them. Plus single, double and triple deck variants of a few. Plus draw 1 or 3 options for a couple.
What would YOU like to play?
The base list of 62 games:
| Solitaire |
|---|
| Alaska |
| Algerian Patience |
| Ali Baba |
| Australian Patience |
| Baker's Dozen |
| Baker's Game |
| Beleaguered Castle |
| Big Ben |
| Big Forty |
| Big Harp |
| Blue Moon |
| Canberra |
| Canfield |
| Castles in Spain |
| Cell Eleven |
| Citadel |
| Clock |
| Corners |
| Crazy Quilt |
| Czarina |
| Easthaven |
| Eight Off |
| Fan |
| ForeCell |
| Fortune's Favor |
| Four Seasons |
| FreeCell |
| Golf |
| Grandfather's Clock |
| Indian Carpet |
| Josephine |
| Klondike |
| La Belle Lucie |
| Little Windmill |
| Martha |
| Medici |
| Montana |
| Monte Carlo |
| Mount Olympus |
| Napoleon at St. Helena |
| Napoleon's Square |
| Osmosis |
| Penguin |
| Pyramid |
| Raw Prawn |
| Royal Family |
| Royal Parade |
| Russian |
| Scorpion |
| Seahaven Towers |
| Spanish Patience |
| Spider |
| Spiderette |
| Storehouse |
| Tasmanian |
| Three Cells |
| Trefoil |
| Tri Peaks |
| Tut's Tomb |
| Wasp |
| Westcliff |
| Yukon |
What I got from the docs:
- 500 hard limit
- max 100 per set
I have a solitaire collection (97 so far), each with wins, best time and longest streak boards.
Getting to the limit.
What do you do?
AI suggested that "most professionals use their own servers" - is that true?
I would like to be in the business of perfecting my games, not of maintaining boards.
I am putting my sweat (not blood and tears yet) into a game app.
Started slow, a couple hundreds of downloads in 6 weeks.
Had five 5-star ratings (no reviews), some probably from the friends and family.
Today woke up to a 1-star, also no review (from Australia).
WHY? It's a free solitaire game. You don't like it - move on.
What motivates people to do that???
I’ve been experimenting (playing?) with these games: Baker’s Dozen, Castles in Spain and Spanish Patience.
They share layout - all cards dealt on start, 13 piles of 4. Only single card can be moved.
Here are the differences.
Baker’s Dozen and Spanish Patience share these rules:
- all cards are dealt face up
- all Kings are “promoted” (moved to the base of the piles they were dealt to)
- allows you to build tableaus down by rank regardless of the suit
- the empty spaces are NOT filled
The only difference between Baker’s Dozen and Spanish Patience (and it’s a weird one) - Spanish Patience allows you to mix suits in foundations! That’s the only game in my collection that does that!
Castles in Spain only opens top card in each pile, requires alternating colors to build tableau and allows any card in an empty space.
All three have pretty good odds of converging (given this set of rules).
Can’t say that I enjoy the Spanish Patience. I often stumble when I need to play 2♣ on A♠ in foundation…
Baker’s Dozen feels like you’re analyzing a static puzzle more than “playing” in the usual solitaire sense, while Castles in Spain plays like a solitaire.
Curious where people land on these.
Would you place other games in this family?
Where do you go for the ultimate authority on rules?
Here are my sources, often contradictory:
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_patience_games
BVS - https://www.bvssolitaire.com/rules/
World of Solitaire - https://worldofsolitaire.com
Some odd sites I am getting from googling particular game
BTW, BVS’s own game behavior often doesn’t align with their own written rules :(
I’ve been digging into FreeCell’s “siblings” lately—Baker’s Game, Eight Off, and Seahaven Towers—and it’s interesting how small rule changes completely reshape the strategy.
If you’re used to classic FreeCell, here’s a quick breakdown of how they differ and why you might enjoy each:
♠️ FreeCell (baseline)
➤ This is the “control” version—very forgiving and calculation-heavy.
♠️ Baker’s Game
This one is much harder than FreeCell. You lose a ton of flexibility because you can’t mix colors anymore. It feels more “pure” and punishing—planning ahead matters a lot more, and bad early moves are harder to recover from.
➤ Good if you want a FreeCell-like game but with real difficulty.
♠️ Eight Off
At first glance it looks easier (8 free cells!), but the same-suit restriction still makes it tricky. The extra cells shift it toward resource management—you’re juggling space more than fighting move constraints.
➤ Feels like a more “engineered” puzzle than FreeCell.
♠️ Eight Off (relaxed variant)
This small change makes a big difference. You keep the same-suit challenge, but gain back flexibility in how you rebuild stacks. It plays much smoother and is noticeably more forgiving.
➤ Nice middle ground between Eight Off and FreeCell.
♠️ Seahaven Towers
This one feels the most different. The “Kings only” rule makes empty columns much more valuable and harder to use. It’s less about constant movement and more about setting up long-term structure.
➤ Slower, more deliberate, and (in my opinion) more strategic than Baker’s Game.
♠️ Seahaven Towers (relaxed variant)
Dropping the King restriction opens the game up quite a bit. It reduces those “dead column” situations and makes recovery from mistakes more feasible, while still keeping the structured feel and same-suit building.
➤ Keeps the character of Seahaven, but less punishing.
Big picture
All these variants remove FreeCell’s biggest source of flexibility (alternating colors), but compensate differently:
If FreeCell feels too easy but you like the style, these are worth exploring.
Curious which one people here prefer—and whether people stick to the stricter rules or lean toward the relaxed versions.
UPDATE:
🐧 Penguin
This one sits in an interesting spot in the FreeCell family. The twist is that sequence moves aren’t constrained by free cells. That removes one of FreeCell’s core limitations and makes large rearrangements much easier. At the same time, same-suit building keeps it from becoming trivial.
➤ Feels more fluid and less restrictive than FreeCell, but still requires planning due to suit-building.
Started to happened a couple of days ago.
I am a developer, also on internal testers list. Worked OK for this app since its start a few months ago, the same procedure works for other apps for years.
In AppStoreConnect, TestFlight tab, Builds - shows green checkmark with "Complete".
Spent an hour with ChatGPT yesterday, checked everything.
Anyone seen this?
Any suggestion on what to try next?
Can deploy the build from Xcode directly, but other testers are affected the same way.
Fein Solitaire 2.0, a collection of 50+ solitaire games, is released:
https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198
Available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Completely free with no ads: No annoying interruptions.
Unlimited Undos: Experiment with different moves without fear.
Hints: Get help when you're stuck.
Card Designer: An ultimate tool that allows you to create the deck YOU like!
Competitive: two leaderboards for each solitaire on Game Center: Number of Wins and Best Time.
Please comment here if you want YOUR favorite solitaire added!