What is the Win Rate for Push-Pin Solitaire?

Solitaire Statistics

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analytics Primary Research Study
13.64%
Win Rate
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Game Variant Push-Pin Solitaire
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Sample Size 5,000 Simulated Games
lightbulb Methodology: Monte Carlo Simulation. Two decks significantly increase difficulty relative to Royal Marriage.
January 2026

Analysis of Data: Push-Pin is essentially "Royal Marriage with two decks," but this simple change has a drastic effect on the odds. While Royal Marriage enjoys a ~38% win rate, Push-Pin drops to 13.64% in our simulations.

Why the drop?

  • More Cards = More Chaos: With 104 cards between the targets, there are far more opportunities for the row to become "stuck" with no matching pairs within range.
  • Longer Game: You must successfully clear twice as many cards without hitting a dead end. One bad sequence of cards can ruin the entire run.
~13.6% Win Rate
Push-Pin occupies a middle ground: easier than Accordion (1%) but significantly harder than Royal Marriage (38%) or Klondike (43%).

How Push-Pin Works

Push-Pin follows the same core rules as Royal Marriage, with one key difference:

  1. 2 Decks: The game uses 104 cards instead of 52.
  2. Goal: Remove all cards between the two Deuces (or whatever start/end cards are chosen) to make them meet.
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