Play Pyramid Solitaire free online: pair up cards that add to 13 to dismantle a 28-card pyramid. Kings clear on their own, and you get three passes through the stock to find the pairs you need.
About Pyramid Solitaire
Pyramid Solitaire looks like the friendliest card game in the world — a neat little triangle of 28 cards, pair anything that adds to 13, done. Then you play it and discover it is one of the meanest patiences ever devised.
The trap is that a card only becomes available when both cards resting on it are gone, so the pyramid unpicks from the bottom up and every pair you take opens exactly two new options. Spend a 6 early on the nearest 7 and you may find the 7 you actually needed was propping up the whole left side. Good players stop looking at what pairs right now and start looking at which card is blocking the most, then work out how to reach it. Kings are the pressure valve: worth 13 on their own, they clear without a partner, so a King sitting in a bad spot is the one card you can always spend.
Three passes through the stock give you room to be patient, and an undo button means a bad guess isn't fatal. Clearing the whole pyramid earns a hundred-point bonus, and it happens rather less often than you'd expect.
Where Pyramid Solitaire comes from
Pyramid's inventor is unrecorded; the standard description is the one Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith printed as 'Pyramid (Pile of Twenty-eight)' in their Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games in 1949, dealing 28 cards into a pyramid and removing pairs that add up to 13, with kings leaving on their own. Under the strictest rules only about one deal in fifty can be won, which is why most versions, this one included, allow more than one pass through the stock. Microsoft published a variant called Tut's Tomb in Windows Entertainment Pack 2 in 1991 and made Pyramid one of the five games in Microsoft Solitaire Collection in 2012; this version is 360 PlayZone's own take on the classic. Source.
Inside Pyramid Solitaire: what we checked
The numbers below come from Pyramid Solitaire's own source code, and the screenshots are from our own test run of the game (20 October 2026).
- The pyramid is seven rows, 28 cards, and the other 24 go in the stock. Aces count 1, Jacks 11, Queens 12 and Kings 13. Pairs must total exactly 13, and a King is removed on its own.
- A pyramid card can only be used once both cards resting on it are gone. From the waste, only the top card is playable, not the ones below it.
- Every removal, pair or lone King, scores 13 points. Clearing the whole pyramid adds a 100 point bonus.
- Your stock has three passes in total. When the stock runs out you can turn the waste back over twice, and the counter next to the stock shows how many passes are left.
- The game ends as lost when the stock is empty, no redeals remain and no free pair or King is left. Undo remembers up to 40 moves, and restores the score and passes too.
- Your best score is kept in this browser; U undoes and M mutes.
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How to play Pyramid Solitaire
Tap two uncovered cards whose values add up to exactly 13 — Ace is 1, Jack 11, Queen 12 — and both are removed. Kings are worth 13 and clear on their own with a single tap. A pyramid card is only playable when both cards overlapping it have gone. Tap the stock to turn a card into the waste pile, which is always available to pair with, and you get three passes through the stock in total.
Controls
Desktop: click a free card to select it, then click its partner to clear the pair; click the stock to draw, U to undo, Space to draw, M to mute. Touch: tap cards to pair them, tap the stock to draw.
Tips & tricks
- Work out which card is blocking the most before you take an easy pair. Clearing the two cards above a key card is usually worth more than banking a quick 13 somewhere else.
- Kings are your escape hatch — they need no partner, so a King buried in an awkward corner is always safe to spend the moment it opens up.
- The waste pile card stays available, so a card you draw and can't use immediately isn't wasted; it may pair with something you free up two moves later.
- Undo is there for a reason. If a pair opens nothing useful, take it back and look for one that unlocks a card deeper in the pyramid instead.
Frequently asked questions
Does Pyramid Solitaire save my progress?
Yes — Pyramid Solitaire keeps your best score and settings in this browser's local storage, so they are still there when you come back on the same device. Nothing is uploaded and no account is involved — clearing your browser data is what resets it.
Is Pyramid Solitaire unblocked at school or work?
Pyramid Solitaire is a plain web page of about 17 KB — no plugin, no installer, no app store — so it loads on a Chromebook or a locked-down school or office laptop the same way any other page does, and the whole game arrives in one short download. Whether it opens comes down to your network's filter rather than the game itself.
Who made Pyramid Solitaire?
Pyramid Solitaire was built in-house by the 360 PlayZone team using open web technology (HTML5), which is why it runs instantly without any download.
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From our blog
Pyramid Solitaire features in Pyramid Solitaire Online: Rules, the Pairs That Make 13 and How to Clear the Pyramid.