Yukon Solitaire
Yukon is Klondike without a stock and with one enormous liberty: you may pick up any face-up card together with every card piled on top of it, in sequence or not, and drop it onto a card one rank higher of the opposite colour. Nothing is hidden behind a deck, so most deals are winnable — a loss is usually a real mistake.
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- Redo
- H
- Hint
- N
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- F
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- A
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- Deck
- 52 cards, no stock
- Columns
- 7
- Move rule
- Any face-up card plus its stack
- Empty column
- Kings only
What makes Yukon different from Klondike?
| Klondike | Yukon | |
|---|---|---|
| Stock | 24 cards | None |
| Cards moved together | Only ordered runs | Any face-up card and everything on it |
| Column 1 | 1 card | 1 card |
| Column 7 | 7 cards | 11 cards (6 down, 5 up) |
| Tableau build | Down, alternating colours | Down, alternating colours |
| Empty column | King only | King only |
The deal is much heavier — columns two to seven each carry five face-up cards on top of their hidden ones — but because you can lift a card out from under a pile of junk, you can nearly always keep working. It is the most forgiving of the tableau games on this site short of FreeCell.
How do you move cards in Yukon solitaire?
Click or drag any face-up card. Everything above it comes with it, whatever the order. The only requirement is on the card you are grabbing: it must land on a card one rank higher of the opposite colour, or in an empty column if it is a King. The pile of unrelated cards riding on its back is simply carried across.
What is the winning strategy in Yukon?
- Uncover face-down cards first, always. There are 21 of them and they decide the game.
- Do not send cards to the foundations early. Yukon has no stock to bail you out — the tableau is the only place cards can come from, and a Six on a foundation is a Six you cannot use as a landing spot.
- Break up a big riding stack only when it buys a face-down card.
- Kings are landing pads. Getting a King into an empty column early is worth several moves later.
How do you get better at yukon?
- Foundations lastWith no stock, every card in the tableau is a potential landing place. Send up Aces and Twos and leave the rest until the columns are clear.
- Attack the deepest columnColumn seven hides six cards. Those are the ones that will strand you, and Yukon's move rule exists precisely so you can dig them out.
- Use riding stacks deliberatelyMoving a card with junk on top is free. Use it to relocate a whole mess out of the way of a card you actually need.
- Do not empty a column without a KingSame rule as Klondike: an empty column that no King can fill is a wasted asset.
Yukon Solitaire questions people ask
- Do you need a sequence to move cards in Yukon?
- No — that is the defining rule. You may move any face-up card with everything stacked above it, regardless of order. Only the card you grab has to fit its destination.
- Is there a stock in Yukon solitaire?
- No. All 52 cards are dealt into the seven columns, so there is nothing to draw and no redeal.
- How many cards are face down in Yukon?
- Twenty-one. Columns two through seven hold one to six face-down cards respectively, with five face-up cards on top of each.
- Is Yukon solitaire easier than Klondike?
- Generally yes. Nothing is hidden behind a stock and the move rule is far more permissive, so a much larger share of deals is winnable — but it punishes careless foundation play harder.
The rules in six lines
- 1Deal all 52 cards into seven columnsColumn one gets a single face-up card. Columns two to seven get one to six face-down cards each, topped with five face-up cards.
- 2Move any face-up card with its whole stackGrab a face-up card and everything above it comes too, sequence or not.
- 3Land on the opposite colour, one rank higherA black Nine goes onto a red Ten. Only the grabbed card has to match.
- 4Kings fill empty columnsAn empty column takes a King — and whatever it is carrying.
- 5Turn a face-down card when it is exposedThe last card of a column turns face up automatically.
- 6Build the four foundations Ace to King in suitMove all 52 cards up to win. There is no stock, so everything must come from the tableau.
The long version, with worked examples and the questions beginners actually ask, is on how to play yukon solitaire.
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