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Learn Yukon Solitaire: Tutorial
1 player · 10–20 min · Moderate to learn
The Deal
Welcome to Yukon Solitaire! All 52 cards are dealt into seven columns, and there is no stock to draw from.
The first column holds a single face-up card. Columns 2 to 7 hold 1 to 6 face-down cards, each covered by five face-up cards. Most of the deck is visible from the start: the challenge is reaching the cards, not finding them.
The four foundations, one per suit, start empty.
Foundations: Ace to King
The aim is to move every card to the four foundations, building each one up by suit from Ace to King.
Only the top card of a column can go to a foundation, and cards never come back off it. In this deal the Aces of Diamonds, Hearts and Clubs were lying on top of columns 2, 5 and 6, so they have already gone home. The 2 of Diamonds is the next card the diamond foundation needs.
Drag a card to its foundation, or tap the card and then the foundation.
Build Down, Alternating Colors
On the columns you build down in alternating colors: a card goes onto a card one rank higher of the other color.
Here the 7 of Hearts at the end of column 7 can go onto the 8 of Spades at the end of column 3: red on black, 7 on 8.
The card you build on must be face up and the last card of its column.
Move Any Stack
This is what makes Yukon different. You may move any face-up card, even one deep inside a column, and every card lying on top of it goes along, whether or not those cards are in order. Only the card you pick has to fit.
In column 6 the 5 of Clubs has the King of Diamonds, 3 of Diamonds and King of Spades on top of it. The 5 of Clubs fits on the 6 of Diamonds at the end of column 5, so all four cards can move there together.
Turn Up Hidden Cards
When a move uncovers a face-down card, it is turned face up straight away.
Moving the 5 of Clubs and its cards off column 6 has turned up the 2 of Diamonds. It is now the last card of column 6 and can go onto the Ace of Diamonds on its foundation.
Turning up face-down cards is how you make progress, and the columns on the right hide the most.
Empty Columns
Only a King may be moved into an empty column, and like any move, it takes every card on top of it along.
The Queen of Diamonds has gone onto the King of Spades, so column 1 is empty. Three moves can fill it: the King of Clubs from column 2 (with the 3 of Clubs and 8 of Diamonds), the King of Diamonds from column 5 (with the three cards on top of it), or the King of Spades from column 5 (with the Queen of Diamonds).
An empty column is valuable, so think about which King helps you most before you fill it.
Same-Suit Building
The setup offers a same-suit option, the traditional variant known as Russian Solitaire. The deal is the same; the only change is that you build down in the same suit instead of in alternating colors.
In this position the 7 of Hearts can no longer go onto the 8 of Spades. Instead the 7 of Diamonds can go onto the 8 of Diamonds in column 2, carrying the 8 of Spades along, the Jack of Diamonds can go onto the Queen of Diamonds in column 1 with the three cards on top of it, and the 9 of Spades can go onto the 10 of Spades in column 4.
End of the Game
You win when all 52 cards are on the foundations, each built from Ace to King.
The game also ends when no move can send a card home or turn a face-down card up. Moving the same cards back and forth would change nothing, so the board tells you that no moves are left. You can also give up at any time and start a new deal.
Yukon is harder than it looks: every card can be reached, but a buried card in the wrong place can block a whole column. Look ahead before you move a long stack.
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