| Tap a free card | Select it. |
| Tap its partner | Remove both if they total thirteen. |
| Tap a king | It clears on its own. |
| Tap the stock | Turn over another card when you are stuck. |
Pyramid Solitaire lays twenty-eight cards in a triangle and asks you to take them away in pairs that add up to thirteen. An ace counts one, a jack eleven, a queen twelve, and a king is worth thirteen all by itself so it goes alone.
Only cards with nothing resting on them can be taken, which is where the game gets its shape. The card you need is often trapped under two others, so the real question is never what adds to thirteen but which pair to take first so that the next one becomes reachable.
Clear kings the moment they are free. They cost nothing, need no partner, and every king removed opens the cards beneath it. There is never a reason to leave one sitting there.
Take pairs from the pyramid rather than the waste pile when you can. A card removed from the pyramid unblocks others, whereas clearing the waste changes nothing about what is reachable.
Look at what a removal will expose before you make it. Two different pairs may both total thirteen, but only one of them frees the card you need three moves later.
Do not burn through the stock. Each card you turn over is one you cannot get back easily, so exhaust the pyramid pairs first and use the stock only when genuinely stuck.
Ace with queen, two with jack, three with ten, and so on down to six with seven. A king is thirteen on its own.
Only when nothing rests on top of it. In the pyramid that means both cards below it have already gone.
No. Pyramid deals are randomly shuffled and a meaningful share cannot be cleared, which is normal for this game.
It gives you extra cards to pair against the pyramid when nothing on the board works together.
Completely free, with no trial and no unlock. Pyramid Solitaire loads with the page and plays immediately, without an install step or a video ad first.