Guide
How to Play Yukon Solitaire
Yukon Solitaire is the closest cousin to Klondike in the current OPKA lineup, but one rule changes the whole rhythm: there is no stock pile. Every card is dealt into the tableau at the start, so the puzzle is visible earlier and the pressure shifts from draw timing to column management.
The move rule is also freer than Klondike. You may pick up any face-up tableau card and carry every card sitting above it, even when that carried pile is messy. The destination only checks the card you picked up. If that card fits, the whole stack travels.
How Yukon Solitaire is set up
Yukon uses one standard 52-card deck. Column one starts with one face-up card. Columns two through seven begin with hidden cards like Klondike, then each receives five extra face-up cards.
That creates seven tableau columns with 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 cards. The four foundations start empty and build by suit from Ace to King. There is no stock and no waste pile.
- Tableau: all 52 cards are dealt here at the start.
- Foundations: four suit piles built Ace through King.
- No stock: every choice comes from the tableau, not a draw pile.
- Automatic flips: newly exposed hidden cards turn face up after a move.
Legal moves
Tableau columns build downward in alternating colors. A red 8 can move onto a black 9, and a black 6 can move onto a red 7. Empty tableau columns accept only Kings or a group whose picked-up card is a King.
The Yukon twist is that the cards above the moved card do not need to be in order. For example, if a black 5 has a red 9 and a black 2 sitting on it, you may still move that whole messy pile onto a red 6. The red 6 only cares that the moving card is the black 5.
Foundations build upward by suit from Ace to King. A top tableau card can move to its matching foundation when it is the next card in sequence, and foundation cards can return to the tableau when they fit.
How Yukon differs from Klondike
Klondike hides many cards behind stock access. Yukon puts every card into the seven tableau columns immediately, so there is no draw pile to bail you out later.
Klondike lets you move only clean descending alternating-color tableau sequences. Yukon lets you move any face-up card with every card above it, even when that carried pile is unsorted. This makes Yukon feel more tactical because a single move can relocate a messy stack and expose hidden cards.