Printable Klondike Solitaire Score Sheet

Klondike Solitaire is a single-player game, so there's no opponent to compare against — what a tracking sheet actually helps with is a session log: win rate over many games, and, for players using one of the two common point systems, a running score that means something across repeated attempts at the same deck.

Standard scoring: points for progress, not just wins

The traditional point system rewards moving cards toward the foundations and penalizes moving them back to the tableau: typically +10 points for a card moved from the tableau (or an initial deal stock) to a foundation, +5 for a card moved from the waste pile to a foundation, and -15 for moving a card back off a foundation into the tableau. Whether a game is won or not, tracking each session's final point total shows genuine progress across attempts, since even an unfinished game can score respectably if a lot of cards reached the foundations before the player ran out of legal moves.

Vegas scoring: a completely different shape

The "Vegas" variant reframes the same game as a cash wager against the deck: the player pays a fixed amount up front (a common convention is $52, one dollar per card) and earns $5 back for every card that reaches a foundation. Because this produces a running net profit or loss rather than an accumulating point total, a Vegas-scoring session sheet needs a "net" column (total earned minus the buy-in) rather than a plain running total — a game where only 40 of 52 cards reach the foundations nets a loss even though 40 cards moved, which a points-only sheet would misrepresent as a solid result.

Why a solo session sheet still benefits from a full log

Because Klondike has no opponent, the only meaningful comparison is a player against their own past results — win rate (games completed versus games abandoned), average points or net Vegas result, and longest winning streak are all numbers that only mean something with a running log behind them, which is exactly what a single "did I win" note per game can't provide.

Timed play, if a table is using it

Some scoring conventions add a time bonus (or an increasing time penalty for a slow game) on top of the card-movement points — this is a house or software convention rather than a traditional rule, and worth a separate note column only if the group has specifically agreed to use it, since it changes what a "good" final score looks like considerably.

Draw-one versus draw-three, and why it belongs on the log

Klondike is commonly played either drawing one card at a time from the stock or drawing three at a time (with only the top card of each group of three playable), and the two variants produce meaningfully different win rates and average point totals — draw-one is generally easier to complete. Noting which variant a given session used is worth a single column on the log, since comparing a draw-three win rate against a draw-one win rate from a different night otherwise compares two different games under one name.

For the full deal, tableau-building, and foundation rules, see the full Klondike Solitaire rules.

Does redealing the stock (going through the deck again) cost points under the standard system? Under the most common "Vegas-style" restriction, the deck may only be gone through once or a limited number of times; the standard non-cash point system doesn't itself penalize a redeal directly, though many tables cap redeals as a separate house rule worth noting on the log.

Is a game that's abandoned partway through worth recording at all? Yes — recording it as a loss (0 points, or a full loss of the buy-in under Vegas scoring) keeps the session log's win-rate figure honest; skipping unfinished games would make a player's recorded win rate look better than their actual play.

Klondike appears on the Card Games category hub even though, unlike most of what's listed there, it's a solo game rather than a multiplayer one.