OK Solitaire
A mobile reimagining of classic Klondike solitaire
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Klondike, rebuilt from scratch in Swift/SpriteKit with obsessive attention to touch. Cards are snappy and physical: drag a row, scrub to cut a stack, flick to the foundation, haptics on every move. It's the same game you already know, with the input model it never had. Daily challenge – Everyone gets the same deal, compete on a Game Center leaderboard, keep a streak. Insight mode – Tells you if your current board is still winnable, and rewinds you to the last move where it was.
PH · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: casual mobile games · 461 launches, 67 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Card Games
- Games
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Could you build this?
Partial While standard Klondike mechanics and animations are straightforward to vibe-code, guaranteed winnable deal generation ('Only Wins' mode) and the 'INSIGHT' rewind solver require an efficient Klondike game-tree solver algorithm.
What it would actually take: Klondike solitaire has an enormous state space with hidden information; determining whether a deal is mathematically winnable or identifying the exact rewind point to a winning branch requires a specialized branch-and-bound or A* solver written in high-performance C++/Swift with transposition tables. The front-end can be built with SpriteKit or SwiftUI, but the algorithmic search engine must solve and cache game states rapidly on-device without exhausting memory. Game AI and graph search optimization expertise are required.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #63 of 243 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
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