From left to right, each pile contains one more card than the last. After shuffling, a tableau of seven fanned piles of cards are laid from left to right. Klondike is played with a standard 52-card deck, without Jokers. It is rumored that the game was either created or popularized by the prospectors in Klondike. The game rose to fame in the late 19th century, being named 'Klondike' after the Canadian region where a gold rush happened.
and Canada, Klondike is the best-known solitaire card game, to the point that the term 'solitaire', in the absence of additional qualifiers, typically refers to Klondike.
