Yukon Solitaire
Klondike's bolder cousin. There is no stock to draw from, so every card is on the table from the start, and you can move any face-up card together with everything on top of it.
How to play Yukon
- Build four foundations. Move each suit from Ace up to King onto the four spaces at the top right. Fill all four and you win.
- Build down in alternating colors. A card can go on one that is one rank higher and the opposite color, like a black 9 on a red 10.
- Move any face-up card, with everything on top of it. This is the big difference from Klondike. The cards on top don't need to be in order. If a red 6 is buried under three other cards, you can still pick up the 6 and all three cards and put them on a black 7.
- Fill empty columns with a King. An empty column takes only a King, along with any cards on top of it.
- Hidden cards turn over by themselves when the cards covering them move away.
How the cards are dealt
All 52 cards go into seven columns. The first column has a single face-up card. Each of the other six columns has five face-up cards on top of a growing number of face-down cards: one face-down card in the second column, two in the third, and six in the last. That makes columns of 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 cards.
Yukon compared with Klondike
| Klondike | Yukon | |
|---|---|---|
| Stock pile | 24 cards to draw from | None |
| Face-up cards at the start | 7 | 31 |
| Which cards can move | Ordered runs only | Any face-up card and everything on it |
| Empty column | King only | King only |
Tips that win more games
- Go after the face-down cards in the right-hand columns. The last column hides six cards, and those are often the Aces and low cards you need.
- Use the group move to dig. Moving a card plus the jumble on top of it is often the fastest way to reach a buried card.
- Keep a King ready before you clear a column, so the space doesn't sit empty.
- Don't rush cards up to the foundations. A 3 sitting in a column may be the only place a 2 of the other color can go.
- Tap Hint if you get stuck. It looks for moves that uncover hidden cards first.
Can every Yukon game be won?
No. Some deals bury the wrong cards too deep. Every deal on this page has been checked by our own solver, which found a winning line before the deal was added. When we ran the solver on random deals, it proved roughly 6 in 10 of them winnable, so a fresh random deal is a gamble and these are not.
Related games
Yukon belongs to the same family as Klondike Solitaire. If you like the group move, try Scorpion Solitaire, which uses the same move but builds in a single suit.