Yukon Solitaire 2024

Yukon Solitaire is a card game inspired by the traditional Klondike Solitaire, but with significant 365cuci differences. The goal is the same in both cases, with the players having to build the foundations in ascending order. Likewise, the cards on the tableau can only be moved to top others with one rank higher and in alternating colors. However, this is where the similarities end.

In a game of Yukon, there are very specific and unusual rules to move the cards around the tableau. The display of the tableau itself is also different from that of Klondike since all the cards are laid down in the columns and there is no stockpile. This means that, to some extent, Yukon Solitaire can be a much challenging game because once the players get stuck and they cannot find any available moves, they lose the game.

Yukon Solitaire uses a standard 52-card deck. All the cards are positioned in the tableau, forming 7 columns.

The first column on the left has one card. The second column has 5 cards, and then the number increases by one with each column: the 3rd column has 6 cards, the 4th has 7 cards, and so on. The last column on the right must have 11 cards in total.

The five cards of each column closer to the player are facing up, while those further away are facing down. The exception is the first column which only has one face-up card.

At the top of the tableau are the foundations where the players must organize the cards by suit, starting with the ace and ending with the king. There is no stockpile.

How to play
The goal in this game is to build the four foundations by suit, starting with the ace and ending with the king. The cards must be transferred in order to the foundations.

You can only send a card to the foundations when there is no other topping it. Likewise, you can only turn up a card facing down when the path to it is free. This means that you need to move the cards around on the tableau to get to the ones you need.

As with Klondike, you can only place a card on top of another one rank higher and with a different color. For example, you can put a red 2 on top of a black 3. But this is where the similarities end. While on Klondike you can only move cards that are free or sequences, in Yukon Solitaire you can shift full or partial columns around freely as long as you are putting them on top of a free card.

For instance, if you have a column with a black 6 blocked by several other cards and a red 7 without any cards on top of it, you can still move the 6 to the 7. The cards blocking the 6 will tag along and will also be transferred.

Since the cards can only be moved to one with one rank higher, the kings cannot top any other card. They can only be transferred to an empty column/space on the tableau. No other card can fill these spaces.

The players win the game if they successfully build all the foundations and they will lose if they fail to clear the tableau and there are no more movements available.