Best of
Best Hard Patience Classics
Hard-difficulty picks among patience classics.
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
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
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
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
Maze
Pull the Kings out and slide the remaining 48 cards around six gaps until every suit runs Ace to Queen.
- One deck
- 14 min
- Hard
Bisley
The Aces build up and the Kings build down, meeting somewhere in the middle across thirteen open columns.
- One deck
- 15 min
- Hard
Flower Garden
Six overlapping "garden beds" of cards sit around a central reserve you must unpack in the right order.
- One deck
- 15 min
- Hard
Usk
Ten open piles built down in alternating colours, with a single redeal that restacks them in a fixed order.
- One deck
- 15 min
- Hard
Agnes
A triangular tableau packed by matching colour, with the twenty-ninth card deciding where every foundation starts.
- One deck
- 16 min
- Hard
Four Corners
Only the cornerstone piles may feed any foundation — every other pile is tied to the one in its own row.
- 2 decks
- 18 min
- Hard