TrySolitaire March 2026: What 21,903 Games Tell Us

Published: April 2026 · Data period: March 1–31, 2026 · Sample: 21,903 games started (≥1 move), across 23 game variants · Previous report: February 2026 baseline →

March is the first month where we have something to compare against. February established the baseline. Now we can start asking whether anything changed — in volume, in win rates, in how players are engaging with the games.

The short answer: a lot changed. The site grew by more than half. A product improvement to FreeCell showed up clearly in the data. And a few games that barely had enough plays to report on in February now have real sample sizes.

Here’s what 21,903 games told us.

The Big Number

21,903 games started. 7,031 won. 32.1% overall win rate.

That’s up from 11,064 starts and 28.5% overall win rate in February. Starts nearly doubled, but part of that is better tracking: counting every game dealt outside Mahjong and Sudoku, the site grew 55% in a single month. The volume increase is still the bigger story. The win rate uptick is partly compositional: more Spider plays (a higher win-rate game) as a share of total volume.

Game Popularity

Klondike held its place: among all games dealt outside Mahjong and Sudoku, its share went from 79.7% to 79.1%, because it grew about as fast as the rest.

Starts count games that sent us an ending, and a tracking fix on March 14 raised that share, so the change column counts every game dealt, played or not. Mahjong’s is left out: until July its count also held games from our sister site.

A few things stand out in the popularity table.

Spider grew faster than Klondike. +82% vs +54% in deals. Spider is still a fraction of Klondike’s volume, but it’s gaining ground proportionally. Whether that’s organic discovery or something else, it’s worth watching in April.

Golf dropped sharply. 347 starts in February, 142 in March — a 44% decline in deals. We don’t have a clean explanation for this. Golf’s win rate (10.6%) is among the lowest on the site, which may be contributing to player drop-off, but we’d need more months to say that with confidence. Something to watch.

Forty Thieves crossed the 50-start threshold for the first time. 244 starts in March, up from 29 in February. That’s enough to report on meaningfully — more on that below.

Win Rates

Win rate is wins divided by total starts, treating abandons as non-wins. Same methodology as February.

Klondike Draw 1 held exactly flat at 30.3%. Across 12,289 starts and 3,727 wins — a sample nearly twice February’s — the win rate didn’t move. That’s a strong signal that 30% is a real baseline for this player population, not noise.

FreeCell jumped from 32.0% to 50.8%. This deserves context: we made improvements to the FreeCell experience in March — bug fixes and UX refinements that made the game meaningfully easier to play through to completion. The data reflects that. It’s not a pure organic win rate shift; it’s partly a product change with a measurable outcome. We’ll track whether 50.8% stabilizes or settles as the player base grows.

Mahjong’s win rate climbed to 84.1%. The Turtle layout continues to dominate Mahjong volume (482 of 517 starts), and players appear to be getting more comfortable with it. Mahjong’s high win rate makes it one of the more accessible games on TrySolitaire for players who find Klondike frustrating.

Pyramid jumped from 15.9% to 28.9%. With only 121 starts this month, treat this as directional. The February number (208 starts) was also thin. We’ll need a few more months before Pyramid’s win rate stabilizes.

Forty Thieves debuts at 2.9%. 244 starts, 7 wins. Forty Thieves is one of the hardest solitaire games in existence — two full decks, strict building rules, very little room for error. A 2.9% win rate is brutal but not surprising. It’ll be interesting to see whether that number changes as more players find the game and develop strategies for it.

Speed & Efficiency

Average duration and moves across all March games (≥1 move):

Forty Thieves averages 268 moves and 39 minutes. For a game with a 2.9% win rate, that’s a lot of committed play. Players aren’t quitting quickly — they’re grinding through difficult deals. That’s either impressive dedication or a sign that the game is hard to recognize as lost until it’s very far gone.

FreeCell’s average duration dropped dramatically compared to February (48 min → 10 min). This is almost certainly related to the UX improvements — fewer players getting stuck in unresolvable states and spending time trying to work their way out. Games are completing faster, which aligns with the win rate increase.

Spider at 31 minutes remains the longest of the mainstream games, consistent with February. Winning Spider takes real time regardless of skill level.

Winners vs. Non-Winners

For games with sufficient completed data:

Klondike winners continue to use barely any undo — 1.1 average in March, down slightly from 1.4 in February. The pattern is consistent: winning Klondike players are deliberate, not reactive.

Spider winners still average 6.1 undos, essentially unchanged from February (6.5). In Spider, undo use among winners appears to be a feature of how the game is played, not a crutch. We’ll look at this properly in the upcoming undo analysis post.

TriPeaks winners use slightly fewer moves than non-winners (47 vs 49) and reach for undo less often (1.1 vs 1.4). Duration data for TriPeaks and Pyramid is excluded this month pending a tracking fix — we’ll include it once we’re confident the numbers are clean.

FreeCell, Golf and Pyramid winners have no undo figure. These games did not send their undo count when a game was won, so it read zero whatever the player did.

Mobile vs. Desktop

Mobile grew from 31.6% to 35.0% of total plays — a meaningful shift in a single month. Spider was notably mobile-heavy in March at 59% mobile, as was Mahjong at 64%. TriPeaks remained the most desktop-skewed game at 89% desktop.

We’ll continue tracking this split. The hypothesis that desktop players win at higher rates — easier controls, fewer accidental moves — is something we’ll test properly once we have three or more months of consistent data.

Spotlight Stat

Klondike Draw 1’s win rate held at exactly 30.3% across two months and nearly 19,000 combined starts.

February: 2,017 wins from 6,653 starts = 30.3%. March: 3,727 wins from 12,289 starts = 30.3%. When a number doesn’t move across a doubling of sample size, it’s telling you something real. For this player population, on this platform, Draw 1 Klondike wins 30% of the time. That’s the baseline.

What’s Next

April will bring the third monthly report — and with three months of data, we’ll start to see which trends are real and which were noise.

Coming posts this month:

• Does using undo actually help you win? We have the data across all games — the answer is more nuanced than you’d expect
• Klondike: a full data portrait — move counts, abandonment patterns, seed difficulty distribution, and what separates winners from everyone else

The most-played game in March was, again, Klondike Draw 1. Play it here →

All data is anonymous. TrySolitaire does not track individual users. Win rates are calculated as wins divided by total starts (treating abandons as non-wins). Games with fewer than 50 starts in a given month are excluded from win rate comparisons. Duration data for TriPeaks and Pyramid is excluded this month due to a tracking issue under investigation. Growth from February, March or April to a later month counts every game dealt, played or not, except Mahjong and Sudoku, whose counts until July also held games from our sister sites. The other game counts here include only games that sent us an ending (a win, a loss or an abandon), and tracking fixes on March 14 and April 14 raised that share, so those counts grew faster than play did. Until March 5 the first game of some page loads went unrecorded, so February’s counts are about a tenth low. Data covers March 1–31, 2026. See our February 2026 report for the baseline. For Klondike rules and strategy, see our Klondike Solitaire Guide.

Published April 1, 2026 | TrySolitaire Blog · Play Free Solitaire