r/solitaire

I wanted to share a passion project I recently launched:[https://solitareonline.com/\](https://solitareonline.com/)

I completely recreated the Windows 95 aesthetic, complete with a functioning interactive desktop, Start menu, and top menu navigation. You can minimize windows, close them, and relaunch games right from the desktop icons just like the good old days.

**Here is what is currently live:**

* Solitaire Draw 1 & Solitaire Draw 3 * Spider Solitaire & Free Cell * **Guaranteed Winnable Deals:** A background solver runs when you start a new game to ensure the deal can actually be beaten. (You can also reload a game if you get stuck, and undo moves). * **No sign-ups:** Play straight away. Your stats (average win time, win percentage) are stored locally on your device. * **PWA Ready:** You can install it on your phone or PC with one click.

**Coming Soon:** We are working on Daily and Calendar Challenges where everyone across the globe gets the exact same deck, battling it out for the top spot on the leaderboards.

**I need your help!** The site is in its early stages. Draw 1 and Draw 3 are working perfectly, but I really need some feedback and beta testers for Spider Solitaire and Free Cell. If you run into any weird bugs, please let me know in the comments or shoot an email to admin@solitareonline.com.

Hope this brings back some good memories! Let me know what you think.

Just posting this to give people hope. It’s solvable I’m not lying. I’ll try my best to find the time to post a video.

So I finally did it.....After learning to code basically from scratch, I just got my first iOS app approved on the App Store and I'm honestly still a bit shocked it worked. 

The idea came from a really simple frustration — every time my family sits down for a card game night someone pulls out a game nobody remembers the rules to, and we end up spending 20 minutes on Google piecing together half-answers from random websites.

So I built Card Game Encyclopedia. It's a free app with 100+ card games all in one place — full rules, strategy tips, how-to-play videos, difficulty ratings, the works. Everything from Poker and Solitaire to more obscure stuff like Tichu, Skat, Hanafuda and Briscola. I've learned so much from researching all these games, also how I've been playing so many games very very very wrong (lol).

My favourite feature is the Suggest a Game screen — you pick how many players you have and what difficulty you want and it recommends something random. Really useful when nobody can agree on what to play. 

Biggest lessons from building it: 

- Expo and React Native are genuinely beginner friendly. But honestly I still have a lot to learn, and am actually unsure if I understand any of it.

- The App Store submission process is way more involved than I expected 

- Having an actual reason to build something makes you push through the hard parts

 It's free to download if anyone wants to check it out. Would love any feedback — good or bad!Would love any feedback from fellow indie developers and gamers! App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/card-game-encyclopedia/id6763935434

*throws phone across the room*

Been going at this for days and haven't found a solution yet, has anybody found the right sequence to solve yet?

Posted here a while back for early feedback — wanted to share what's evolved since.

What MSO FreeCell Arena is — and what makes it different from every other FreeCell app:

Most FreeCell apps deal you a random hand and you play alone. This one doesn't. The server hands the same deal to everyone, then ranks moves, time, efficiency, and auto-streak across all players who tackled it.

Three mechanics built on that shared-deal foundation:

- Group lobbies — host shares a 6-char code, all members play the same deal at the same time. Round ends, you see who finished fastest, who blew the turn. Persistent lobbies, multiple rounds. This is the most unique thing about the game — turns solitaire into something you can do with friends without taking turns.

- Replays of every record-holder — when someone beats your time on a deal, you watch their move-by-move replay. Server stores top 10 replays per deal / difficulty / metric. Combined with lobbies: after a round, the loser can pull up the winner's replay and see exactly how they solved it.

- Daily challenges + global leaderboards — single shared seed every day, one attempt, your rank against everyone who played it.

Plus head-to-head rivalries with dethronement notifications, 30+ badges, and difficulty bands from Casual (with hints) up to Hardcore (no hints, uncharted decks).

Since the last r/playmygame post:

- Shipped on Google Play (Open Testing) and iOS TestFlight — fully playable on mobile, no test-account waiting

- New "Wizard's Tome" theme — tooled-leather frame, brass corners, parchment stat plate

- Polished landing page (with auto-playing replay demo)

Free. No ads. No gameplay paywall. Single-player works fully offline; online competitive features are $2/month (lobbies, leaderboards, rivalries, saved scores, daily challenges).

Direct links:

- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.msogames.freecell

- iOS TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/qdR6daKm (use redeem code qdR6daKm if it prompts)

- Windows / macOS / Linux: https://msogames.com/download

Looking for feedback particularly on the lobby flow + visual polish.

My husband and I have tried to solve today's (May 7) puzzle for hours to no avail. I don't know if we're stupid or if this puzzle is broken, but since I can't find anyone else talking about it (or a solution), I'm turning to y'all. Is this puzzle solvable? Are we stupid? https://games.usatoday.com/games/daily-solitaire