Sweep away three overlapping pyramids of cards one rank at a time, chaining long streaks before the stock runs dry.
TriPeaks is a solitaire card game played with three overlapping peaks of cards above a waste pile. Play any face-up card whose rank is exactly one above or below the top of the waste pile, Aces wrap around, so an Ace connects to both a King and a 2. Each card you play moves onto the waste and continues the chain.
A card becomes face-up only once both cards covering it have been removed. When you have no legal play, click the stock to turn over a new waste card, but that resets your streak. Clear all 28 tableau cards to win the deal.
Tri Peaks has a named author and a precise date: it was created by Robert Hogue in 1989, making it one of the youngest games in any traditional catalogue.
Its design borrows from two older patiences. Like Golf, it clears the tableau onto a single foundation by rank, going up or down without regard to suit; like Black Hole, everything funnels into one pile. Three overlapping peaks of eighteen cards sit above a row of ten.
What carried it far beyond its origins was distribution rather than design — its inclusion in the Microsoft Solitaire Collection put it in front of an audience no card game of 1989 could otherwise have reached.
TriPeaks is a fast, chain-building patience game where the three-summit layout and rank-up-or-down rule reward forward planning. This is an original, free browser version with daily and practice deals, playable instantly with no download or sign-up.