Solitaire Tri Peaks is a card game based on the popular tabletop TriPeaks Solitaire game. On 10 magical fairy islands, the player earns coins, points and stars by winning TriPeaks games across levels. Their goals are to earn enough coins to purchase tools that can help them win the harder levels and enough points and stars to unlock new islands.
The player starts on Water Island. They later explore the Alcazar, Skull, Floating, Volcano, Stone, Pearl, Moon Spring, Dryad and Ice islands. They access the levels by selecting buttons. They can see the locked islands using the map button in the lower-right area of the main screen. On this screen, they can also access a Quests option that provides them with daily rewards after they complete specific tasks and a lucky spin wheel that provides them with prizes in exchange for ad views.
The rules of Solitaire Tri Peaks follow traditional TriPeaks play. The player clears a background of face-up and face-down standard playing cards by selecting the next higher or lower face-up card that matches a draw pile card below the central area of the background. If the player performs a streak, they earn extra draw pile cards. If no match exists, they select one or more draw pile cards or use a WILD card. They can also undo moves when they make mistakes. That said, the wild and undo options require coins or ad views.
The game also has special cards on the field that include a fireball card that blasts away some face-up cards and a card marked with lightning bolts that remove rows.