Play Nines Solitaire Online for Free (No Signup Required)

Match pairs that add up to nine, pull a lone nine, or complete a ten-jack-queen-king run, all from just nine cards and a brutal 5% win rate.

Nines Solitaire is a version of Simple Pairs: you're dealt nine cards face up, one per pile, and you clear them by matching any two that add up to nine, pulling out a lone nine on its own, or completing a full ten-jack-queen-king run. With only nine cards in view at a time, there's not much room to plan ahead, and luck runs the show. The game is extremely difficult, with just a 5% chance of winning, and it's played with a single deck.

If you like this kind of arithmetic solitaire, Fifteens Solitaire and Eighteens Solitaire work the same way with a different target number, and Fourteen Out Solitaire runs on the same idea too. Block Ten and Elevens are more of the same if you want to keep going.

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Enjoy the game!

How to play Nines Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Where matched cards leave the game for good.

9 tableau piles: One card each, dealt face-up. Cards adding up to nine, lone nines, and complete ten-jack-queen-king sets are removed from play.

Stock: Holds the cards not yet in the tableau.

Foundation:

There are four foundation piles, where matched cards are set aside once they're removed.

Tableau:

There are nine tableau piles of one card each, and every card is dealt face-up.

No building is allowed on the tableau — each pile is only ever one card deep.

Any two cards that add up to nine can be paired off and removed, a lone nine can be removed on its own, and a complete set of a ten, jack, queen, and king can be cleared together.

Once a tableau pile is emptied, it stays empty for the rest of the game.

Stock:

The stock holds the cards that weren't dealt to the tableau at the start.

Nothing is ever dealt from it during play, though — the nine cards you start with are all you get, and the rest of the deck just sits there as the game plays out.