About Puzzle Planet
Puzzle Planet is a free collection of browser-based card and puzzle games, built around a central belief that has become surprisingly rare on the modern web: a game you play for five minutes should start in under a second, work without an account, and keep working when your connection drops.
Most free solitaire sites make you wait through a loading screen, sit through a video advertisement before the first deal, and create an account before your statistics will save. We wanted the opposite. Open the page, and you are already playing.
What You Can Play Here
The centrepiece is Klondike solitaire — the version bundled with Windows for decades and the one most people mean when they say "solitaire." It supports both draw-one and draw-three modes, standard and Vegas scoring, unlimited undo, hints, and a daily challenge that deals the same seeded game to everyone.
Alongside it sit several other classics:
- Chess — play against the computer at a range of strengths
- Sudoku — generated puzzles across several difficulty tiers
- Mahjong solitaire — the tile-matching game, not the four-player one
- Crosswords — word puzzles with checking and revealing
- Poker trainer — practice hand reading and pot odds with play money only
- Brain games — short memory, reaction and pattern exercises
How It Is Built
The entire site is static HTML, CSS and JavaScript. There is no backend, no database, and no login system. Every game runs entirely in your browser.
This has real consequences for you as a player. Because there is no server holding your data, your game progress, statistics, achievements and preferences are saved in your browser's local storage on your own device. Nothing is uploaded. Nobody is building a profile of your playing habits, because the data never leaves your machine. The trade-off is honest and worth stating plainly: clear your browser data and your progress is gone, and we cannot recover it, because we never had a copy.
The site is also installable as a Progressive Web App. Add it to your home screen and it will launch like a native application and keep working with no connection at all — useful on a plane, on a train, or anywhere the signal gives out.
Why We Write Guides
Solitaire has a reputation as a game of pure luck. It is not. A significant majority of Klondike deals are theoretically winnable with perfect play, yet most players win a small fraction of them. The gap between those two numbers is skill, and skill can be taught.
The same is true across the rest of the collection. Sudoku has a well-defined ladder of solving techniques that takes you from scanning to X-Wings. Chess has opening principles that prevent most beginner disasters. Mahjong solitaire has a layer-priority discipline that turns a frustrating game into a solvable one.
So we write about it. Our guides section covers rules, strategy and technique for the games on this site, written to be read by a person rather than assembled for a search engine.
Our Editorial Standards
Every guide on this site is written specifically for it. We hold ourselves to a few rules:
- Original writing. Nothing is spun, scraped or copied from elsewhere.
- No invented statistics. Where we give a figure, it is one that is genuinely established, and where a number is approximate or disputed we say so rather than presenting it as settled.
- Advice you can act on. A guide that tells you to "think ahead" has taught you nothing. We aim to explain specific, applicable decisions.
- Corrections welcome. If something on this site is wrong, we want to know and we will fix it.
How the Site Is Funded
Puzzle Planet is free and is supported by advertising displayed through Google AdSense. We do not charge for any game, sell subscriptions, or gate features behind payment. We also do not sell your personal information — see our Privacy Policy for the full detail on what is and is not collected.
Our poker trainer uses play money exclusively. No real currency is wagered and nothing of monetary value can be won. It exists to teach hand rankings and pot odds, not to encourage gambling.
Get in Touch
Found a bug, spotted an error in a guide, or want to suggest a game we should add? We read everything sent to us. Visit our contact page to get in touch.