Card games for when the cards are too small
The cards here start large, and you can make them larger still — up to about a third bigger again. You can also switch to a deck with big plain numbers instead of the usual small corner marks, and change the colour of the table if the green gives you glare. All of it is free, there is nothing to download, and none of the settings need an account.
How do you make the cards bigger?
Open any game, press the Settings button, and choose a card size. There are four: smaller, normal, larger and largest. Largest is roughly a third bigger than normal, which is the point at which the cards are as wide as the columns can hold — past that the table would have to start hiding cards, and it never does that.
The size you choose is remembered for next time, in your own browser. You do not have to set it again every visit, and there is no account involved in remembering it.
Is there a deck with bigger numbers?
Yes. In Settings you can pick between three decks:
| Deck | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Automatic | Chooses for you based on how big the cards are on your screen |
| Big numbers | Large plain numbers and suit marks, printed for reading rather than for decoration |
| Traditional | The familiar playing-card look, with the usual corner marks |
Automatic is the default and switches to the big numbers when the cards are small. If you would rather always have the big numbers, even on a large screen, you can simply say so — that is not a preference worth arguing with on a site built for older eyes.
What if the green table is hard to look at?
You can change it. Green is the default because that is what a card table looks like, but there are also blue, deep red and a dark grey. They exist for glare, for colour vision, and for plain preference. Whichever you choose is remembered.
Does the browser's own zoom work?
It does, properly. Hold Ctrl and press + (or Cmd and + on a Mac) and the whole page grows. The layout is built so that enlarging it rearranges things sensibly rather than pushing the table off the side of the screen, which is what usually happens.
There is also a floor below which no writing on this site is allowed to shrink, whatever size the window is. Small print is not something you should have to fix yourself.
Is anything timed?
No. Nothing on this site is timed, nothing counts down, and nothing flashes at you. You can put a game down mid-deal and come back to it tomorrow. You can undo as many moves as you like — there is no limit and no penalty.
Moving a card is two taps: tap the card, then tap where it goes. There is no dragging anywhere on the site, because dragging is the first thing that becomes difficult and the last thing anybody needs.
Which games can I play?
Ten, and every setting above applies to all of them:
- Solitaire (Klondike)
- FreeCell
- Spider Solitaire
- Pyramid Solitaire
- Golf Solitaire
- TriPeaks Solitaire
- Yukon Solitaire
- Forty Thieves Solitaire
- Aces Up Solitaire
- Canfield Solitaire
What if you cannot see the screen at all?
Every game here can be played with the keyboard alone, and one key reads the whole table out loud. There is a separate page about playing by keyboard or with a screen reader.