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About Yukon Solitaire

Updated 21 Sept 2026

No stock pile. The whole pack is on the table from move one.

Yukon takes away solitaire’s biggest source of luck: there is no stock pile to hope for. The whole pack is on the table from the first move — thirty-one cards face up, twenty-one face down under them — and every card you turn over is one you earned.

What is left is a puzzle you can see most of from the start, and lose entirely through your own choices.

Yukon is played on the same green felt as the rest of the card games, changed in the settings if you prefer wood or a dark table, and its long columns are the best argument for the card-size control: large cards at L, or small if you would rather see the whole run.

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How to play Yukon Solitaire

5 steps
  1. All 52 cards are dealt to the seven columns. The first column holds one card; the others hold one to six face-down cards with five face-up cards on top. There is no stock pile. The undealt pile. Turn a card from it when nothing on the table will move.
  2. Build the four foundations The piles the game is won on. Clear every card to them and the deal is finished. up from Ace to King in suit, exactly as in Klondike. The seven-column, four-foundation solitaire most people mean when they say the word.
  3. Build the columns down in alternating colours.
  4. Here is the difference: you may pick up any face-up card along with everything sitting on top of it, regardless of order. The group does not have to be a sequence.
  5. Only a King may move into an empty column.

Strategy that actually helps

4 tips
  • Thirty-one of the fifty-two cards are visible from the start, so this is a planning game far more than Klondike is. Before your first move, find the visible Aces and work out what sits on top of them.
  • Moving a large messy group is usually a mistake. You are relocating the problem, not solving it — prefer the move that uncovers the most cards for the fewest transfers.
  • Empty columns are worth far more than in Klondike, because you can drop a King with a large group behind it and instantly clear a column elsewhere.
  • Do not rush cards to the foundations. Low cards are the most useful tableau The columns you work in. Cards are stacked and rearranged here before they go anywhere final. targets, and Yukon gives you no stock to replace one you sent away too early.

Controls

Mouse, keyboard, touch

Mouse and keyboard

  • Click a card to pick it up along with everything on top of it, then click a destination.
  • Or drag from any card in a column.
  • Double-click sends a single card to a foundation.
  • Legal moves, in the settings beside the card size, rings every pile the lifted card can legally go to. The rings are on to start with; turn them off if you would rather find the moves yourself, and the choice is kept. Hint, on the toolbar, shows the one move it rates best.

Touch

  • Tap a card to lift it and the cards above it, then tap where they should go.
  • Double-tap to send a card to a foundation.
  • Legal moves, in the settings beside the card size, rings every legal destination while your finger is on a card. The rings are on to start with; turn them off if you would rather find the moves yourself, and the choice is kept. Hint, on the toolbar, shows the one move it rates best.

Questions

5 answered

How is Yukon different from Klondike?
Two things. The whole pack is dealt to the columns — there is no stock pile at all — and you can move any group of face-up cards rather than only a properly ordered sequence. Only twenty-one cards start face down, against Klondike's forty-five.

Is Yukon easier than Klondike?
It rewards good play more, because every card is in view and nothing is left to luck; how many deals are winnable is not something we will put a number on without a source. If you lose a Yukon game, the losing move was yours.

Why can I move a group that is not in order?
That is the defining rule of Yukon. Any face-up card can be lifted with everything stacked on top of it, in whatever order those cards happen to be. It is what makes a game with no stock pile winnable.

Is it free to play?
Yes. No download, no account, no payment, and it works in any browser on any device.

Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Tap a card to lift it and everything above it, then tap where the group should go. Long columns compress so the whole board stays on screen.