Pyramid Solitaire: Free Online Card Game with a Daily Deal

Pyramid Solitaire: Daily Deal is our own take on the classic adding-up card game. Twenty-eight cards sit in a pyramid of seven rows, every one of them face up, so you can plan from the first tap. A card is free once both cards lying on it are gone, and covered cards are dimmed so you always see which ones you can use. Clear the whole pyramid to win.

The rule is simple arithmetic: tap two free cards whose values add up to 13 and they leave the table. An Ace counts 1, a Jack 11 and a Queen 12, so a Queen pairs with an Ace, a Jack with a 2, a 6 with a 7. A King is 13 on its own and goes with a single tap. Pick two cards that don't make 13 and the game tells you the sum, like "8 + 4 = 12, not 13", instead of silently doing nothing.

The other 24 cards wait in the stock. Its top card lies face up and is free, and so is the top of the waste pile beside it, so you can pair stock with pyramid, waste with pyramid, or stock with waste. Tap the arrow to turn the next card. Easy lets you go through the stock three times; Hard gives you a single pass, so every card you skip is gone for good. The trick is not to spend a card on an easy pair when the pyramid needs it later.

Every pyramid card you remove scores 20 points and every stock or waste card 10. Removals in a row build a streak: each one adds 10 more points than the one before, up to 100 extra, and turning a card from the stock starts the streak over. A win adds 1,000 for the cleared pyramid, 500 if you did it in the first pass through the stock or 250 in the second, and a time bonus of 900 minus the seconds you took. The best possible score is 5,450.

Every deal is played through by a solver before it reaches the table, so every game you get can be won. Each day brings one daily deal, the same for everyone and winnable even in one pass, and your first win of it each day goes on the leaderboard. Winning it on days in a row builds a streak. Undo is free and unlimited, and on a phone held upright the stock and waste are drawn big near your thumb.

The only paid item is a hint, which costs gems and lights up the cards of a move that keeps a winning line alive, or tells you how many moves to undo. Pyramid Solitaire: Daily Deal is free to play in your browser with no download or sign-up, and its cards, sound effects and music are all made for the game, with separate switches for music and sound effects.