Play Golf solitaire with no download. Thirty-five cards lie face up in seven columns, and the whole game is one move repeated: send the bottom card of any column to the waste pile when it is one rank above or below the card already there. Suits never matter. Clear the table and the round is won.
The table is seven columns of five cards, all face up, so nothing is hidden from you: everything you need to plan is on the screen from the first second. Below them sit the stock and a single waste pile, and that waste pile is the only place a card can go.
A card plays when its rank is one away from the top of the waste - up or down, either direction, any suit. On a 7 you may play a 6 or an 8. Only the bottom card of a column is available; the cards above it wait their turn.
When nothing fits, click the stock to turn one card onto the waste and change what you can reach. There is no redeal in Golf: those seventeen cards are all you get, so every click of the stock is a decision, not a reflex.
Golf rewards looking before touching. The cards are all visible, so the question is never what is there - it is which order to take them in.
A random Golf deal is often impossible - the cards simply do not connect, and no amount of thinking helps. Before a round is handed to you, our game plays it through to the end, and a deal that cannot be cleared is thrown away. So when you lose, the win was there and the order was wrong - which is the whole pleasure of the game.
The closest relative of Golf: TriPeaks solitaire uses the same one-up-one-down move, but the table is three overlapping peaks, and the King and Ace connect, so the chains run further.
Classic Solitaire is the game most people mean by the word: build four foundations by suit, from Ace upward, and dig through the tableau to find what you need.
In Spider solitaire you build descending runs in one suit and remove them from the table. Two decks, ten columns, and far more room to manoeuvre than Golf allows.
