The columns have cards increased from 1 to 7 cards, with a card more in each consecutive column. The game has 7 columns with the bottom card face shown. Klondike Solitaire has a standard deck with 52 cards without jokers. Players will actually be successful most often than not, a fraction of the time. It is not only entertaining, but very challenging as well. This is probably one of the reasons why this game has become very popular. Although this game is patterned after the original Solitaire, it is not very easy to complete this Solitaire game. Klondike Solitaire is actually what most people refer to as simply, Solitaire. Download and start playing the game on any Mac OS X 10.6 or higher and iPhone, iPad, and iPod iOS 4.3 or higher. The most popular version though is called Klondike Solitaire. Solitaire has revolutionized over the years which resulted into a number of variations of the game. However this game is called though, it would always refer to a one-person card game. While Solitaire is more commonly called as Patience in England, there are many other name preferences of this game in different parts of the world as well.