Yukon Solitaire

Move all 52 cards to the four foundations, building each one up by suit from Ace to King. You win when all 52 cards are on the foundations. The game ends without a win when no move can send a card to a foundation or turn a face-down card up; moves that only shift cards back and forth do not count. A game here also stops after 3,000 moves.

Deal seven columns from left to right as in Klondike: the first column gets one face-up card, and the second to seventh columns get one to six face-down cards with a face-up card on top. Then deal the other 24 cards face up onto the second to seventh columns, one card to each column per round, for four rounds. The first column holds 1 card and the others 6 to 11, each ending in five face-up cards. The four foundations start empty, and there is no stock or waste pile.

Turn up face-down cards first: the right-hand columns hide the most, and every card you free gives you new moves. Look at what a stack move leaves behind. Taking a card from deep in a column can uncover a card you need, or bury one under a pile of unrelated cards. Watch the Kings. A King lying on top of low cards in its column can only be moved out to an empty column.

Russian Solitaire: build down in the same suit instead of in alternating colors. Play it here with the same-suit option.

Yukon is described in Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith's The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games, first published in 1949. Russian Solitaire is its traditional same-suit variant. The name points to Yukon in north-west Canada, the territory where the Klondike gold fields lie, and the game is dealt much like Klondike.