Best of
Best Long Games
Our picks among long games.
Spider
Build same-suit sequences from King to Ace across ten tableau columns using two full decks and four suits.
- 2 decks
- 20 min
- Intermediate
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
Crazy Quilt
A woven 8x8 quilt where only cards with a short edge free can be played, to Aces building up and Kings building down.
- 2 decks
- 18 min
- Hard
Cruel
Twelve piles of four that you may gather and redeal in order as often as you like — without ever shuffling them.
- One deck
- 18 min
- Expert
Double Klondike
Klondike scaled up to two decks and nine tableau columns for a longer, more complex game.
- 2 decks
- 18 min
- Intermediate
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
House on the Hill
Thirty-six tiny piles of three feeding eight foundations that climb from Aces and descend from Kings.
- 2 decks
- 18 min
- Intermediate
Terrace
You pick which rank the foundations start on, then build them up in alternating colours from an eleven-card terrace.
- 2 decks
- 18 min
- Intermediate
Harp
A nine-column two-deck Klondike with three redeals, but only one card at a time unless a King leads the group.
- 2 decks
- 20 min
- Intermediate
Royal Cotillion
Eight foundations built up by suit in twos, so each one skips every other rank on its way round.
- 2 decks
- 20 min
- Hard