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Best Hard Mobile-Friendly Games

Hard-difficulty picks among mobile-friendly games.

  1. Canfield

    Foundations start on a random rank instead of Aces, and a 13-card reserve pile adds real strategic pressure.

    • One deck
    • 15 min
    • Hard

  2. Scorpion

    Move any card onto any other regardless of sequence, then untangle same-suit runs across seven columns.

    • One deck
    • 15 min
    • Hard

  3. Forty Thieves

    Build strict same-suit sequences across ten columns dealt from two decks — one of the toughest classic patience games.

    • 2 decks
    • 25 min
    • Hard

  4. Bristol

    Eight fans of three with every King sunk to the bottom, built freely up and down with suit ignored entirely.

    • One deck
    • 8 min
    • Hard

  5. La Belle Lucie

    The entire deck is dealt into fans of three cards, with up to two redeals allowed to untangle what's left.

    • One deck
    • 10 min
    • Hard

  6. Shamrocks

    Eighteen fans capped at three cards each, built up or down with suit ignored — and no redeal to save you.

    • One deck
    • 10 min
    • Hard

  7. Fortress

    A Castle-family game with ten short rows you may build up or down by suit — but never round the corner.

    • One deck
    • 12 min
    • Hard

  8. Gaps

    Remove all four Aces, then fill the gaps they leave with the next-higher card of the same suit.

    • One deck
    • 12 min
    • Hard

  9. Salic Law

    Queens are discarded and the eight Kings become column bases, with Aces building up to Jacks in the middle.

    • 2 decks
    • 12 min
    • Hard

  10. Streets and Alleys

    Beleaguered Castle without the head start — the four Aces are buried in the tableau and you have to dig them out.

    • One deck
    • 12 min
    • Hard