iPhone · Free
Dwindle
A one-thumb solitaire you can play in ninety seconds. Deal cards into a line, collapse the matches, and watch the line dwindle.
Coming soon to the App Store
One rule
Cards are dealt one at a time onto the end of a line. Look at any three in a row: if the two on the outside share a suit or a number, the one in the middle slides left onto its neighbour, and the line closes up.
The 10 and the 3 are both clubs, so the J between them can go.
The J lands on the 10 and the line is one shorter. Four became three.
A pile counts as the card on top of it. One collapse often opens another, and the order you take them in changes how the hand ends — that is the whole game. Keep dealing until the deck runs out, then count your piles. Two is a win. Fewer is always better.
What's in it
- Play a hand yourself, or hand it to the computer and watch at the speed you choose
- A Daily Deal — the same shuffle for everyone, every day
- Simple stats: games, wins, your best, your streaks
- Light and dark themes, two card backs, a left-handed layout
- Soft paper-and-felt sounds and gentle haptics, both optional
- Unlimited undo, and hints for your first three games
Nothing behind it
Dwindle is free. There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no accounts. It does not connect to the internet and it asks for no permissions at all — no camera, no photos, no location, no notifications. It collects nothing about you, ever. See the privacy policy.
Where it came from
The game was taught to the maker by his dad. It is a cousin of the old eliminator patiences — Royal Marriage and Push-Pin, both first written down in the 1890s — stripped back to one rule you can hold in your head.