Green Felt has been running for about two decades and has never needed a redesign to keep people coming back. It is fast, plain, free, and it asks nothing of you. Very few sites of any kind can say that.
We are TrySolitaire. We run a competing free solitaire site, so treat this as a comparison written by an interested party. We have no connection to Green Felt. Where they are better, we say so.
Green Felt is a free browser site with around twenty card games. It has Klondike in three draw settings, FreeCell, Spider in one, two and four suits, Pyramid, Yukon, Canfield, Golf, Forty Thieves and Seahaven Towers — and, to its credit, several genuinely obscure ones: Addiction, Gaps, Cruel, Alternation, Calculation, Flower Garden and Four Seasons. There is no sign-up and nothing to download, undo is available, games save automatically, and there is a Game of the Day. The site has a forum and a blog, and it has kept the same clear, uncluttered look for years.
Do not mistake the short list for a shallow one. Addiction Solitaire is one of the most-visited pages on the site, and it is a variant most competitors have never built — ourselves included.
The name comes from the green baize of a card table — which is also why nearly every solitaire game you have ever played sits on a green background.
It is lighter. Green Felt loads fast and stays out of the way. We carry more machinery — statistics, achievements, leaderboards, 20 languages — and machinery has a weight. If you want the shortest possible path from opening a tab to moving a card, Green Felt is very hard to beat.
It has been there for twenty years. Longevity is a real feature for a site you want to still exist next year. We have been at this for a fraction of that time.
A settled community. The forum and the regulars around it are something a newer site cannot manufacture.
Two games we do not have. Addiction Solitaire and Four Seasons. If either is the one you came for, we cannot help you and Green Felt can.
Three hundred games instead of twenty. This is the main difference. Green Felt picks its twenty well. We cover almost all of them and roughly 280 more, each built from cited rules rather than approximated — Bristol, Thieves of Egypt, Baker's Dozen, and a long tail that almost nobody else has implemented.
Puzzle games as well as cards. Sudoku, Mahjong, 2048, Memory and word games.
Nineteen languages. Green Felt is essentially English. If you would rather play in Spanish, German, French, Dutch or Portuguese, that is a straightforward reason to look at us.
Statistics and leaderboards. We record from your first game with no account. A free account is optional, and it carries your statistics to any device you sign in on. Leaderboards run across the whole catalogue — a rolling 24-hour board and an all-time board.
A guaranteed-winnable daily challenge. Every daily deal is verified solvable before it ships.
| Green Felt | TrySolitaire | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | Free |
| Sign-up | None | None required; optional and free |
| Number of games | Around twenty | 301 card and puzzle games |
| Speed and simplicity | Extremely light | Heavier — more features to load |
| Track record | About two decades | Far shorter |
| Community forum | Yes | No |
| Undo | Yes | Yes, unlimited |
| Hints | Not advertised as a feature | Yes, on every game |
| Statistics across devices | Saved in your browser | Yes, with a free account |
| Leaderboards | No | Cross-game daily and all-time boards |
| Daily challenge | Game of the Day | Yes, on a guaranteed-winnable deal |
| Addiction and Four Seasons | Yes | No — we have neither |
| Puzzle games | Card games only | Sudoku, Mahjong, 2048 and word games |
| Languages | English | 20 languages |
Stay with Green Felt if you value speed and quiet above everything, you play Addiction or Four Seasons, or you are part of the community there. None of those is a small thing, and a heavier site is not automatically a better one.
Try us if you have exhausted twenty games, you want to play in a language other than English, or you want statistics that follow you between devices.
TrySolitaire runs 301 card and puzzle games in a browser. No sign-up, nothing to install, every game open on the first click.
Nearly everything Green Felt has, we have: Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Pyramid and TriPeaks, plus Yukon, Canfield, Golf, Forty Thieves, Seahaven Towers, Gaps, Cruel, Alternation, Calculation and Flower Garden. The two exceptions are Addiction and Four Seasons. Then there are the other 280.
Play Solitaire Free — No Sign-UpYes, free in a browser with no sign-up and nothing to download. Games save automatically.
Around twenty, including Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Pyramid, Yukon, Canfield, Golf, Forty Thieves and Seahaven Towers, plus unusual ones such as Addiction, Gaps, Cruel, Alternation, Calculation, Flower Garden and Four Seasons.
After the green baize cloth of a card table, which is also why most solitaire is played on a green background.
We would say us, and we are plainly biased. The honest version: we have far more games, 20 languages and leaderboards, while Green Felt is lighter, longer-established and has a community we do not.
Neither does. On our side an account is optional and free, and it carries your statistics between devices.
No. We are an independent site and a direct competitor. Green Felt is a trademark of its owner and is named here only to compare the two services.
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