Yukon Solitaire - Card Game Rules & Set Up

If you enjoy most solitaire games but crave a challenge, you will love playing the Yukon Solitaire game. The Yukon Solitaire game pushes your strategy and patience as you move cards across columns to build sequences. Unlike traditional solitaire, you can move groups of cards freely, which adds a new layer of excitement. Being aware of the Yukon Solitaire card game rules and having a plan of action handy doubles the chances of you winning the game.

How to Play Yukon Solitaire

Objective

The main objective of the Yukon Solitaire card game is to move all the cards onto the foundation piles. You must arrange them in ascending order from Ace to King by suit. To achieve this, you must move cards within the tableau and build sequences in descending order and alternating colors.

Yukon Solitaire Card Game Set Up

Setting up the Yukon Solitaire card game is simple, but it differs from classic Solitaire. You will need a standard 52-card deck (one deck) and no stockpile. To begin, cards are dealt into seven tableau piles, just like traditional solitaire.

The first column has one face-up card. The second tableau pile has one face-down card and one face-up card on top. The third tableau pile has two face-down cards and one face-up card. You continue until seven columns. By the seventh column, you will have six face-down cards and one face-up card on top. After the tableau is set, deal the remaining cards face-up across the tableau columns and place them on top of existing piles to add challenge and variety.

In the Yukon card game, every card is important because there is no separate draw pile. You must organize the tableau wisely. Then, you have four foundation piles, where you arrange cards from Ace to the King of the same suit.

Available Moves and Play Area

• In the Yukon Solitaire game, you move cards in descending order and alternating colors. For example, you can put a black 7 on top of a red 8.
• You can move entire stacks of face-up cards together, even if the cards in the middle aren’t in perfect order. Let’s say you have a red 9, a black 7, and a red 6 stacked in a column. Even though the 9 isn’t sitting directly on an 8, you can still grab the whole stack and move it onto a black 10, because the top card, the 9, fits.
• If you clear out an empty tableau, you can move only Kings or a group starting with a King into that empty space. No other card can go there.
• Whenever you move cards, if a face-down card is exposed, you flip it face-up immediately. More cards,
• Your goal is to build the foundation piles, starting with the Ace of each suit and stacking them up to the King, i.e., Ace, 2, 3, all the way up to the King in the same suit.
• There's no stockpile or draw pile in the Yukon Solitaire game. So, what you see is what you get.
• You can play any face-up card you can legally move, and it doesn't have to be the top card of a column, which gives you tons of flexibility.

Rules of Yukon Solitaire Game

• In the Yukon Solitaire game, you build tableau piles in descending order and alternating colors.
• You can move any face-up card, along with all the cards stacked below it.
• Only Kings can be moved into an empty tableau column.
• When you move cards and reveal a face-down card, you flip it face-up immediately.
• You must build foundation piles by suit, starting from Ace and moving up to King.
• There is no stockpile or draw pile in the Yukon Solitaire card game.
• You can only move cards that are face-up and available; you cannot move face-down cards directly.
• The game is won when all cards are moved to the foundation piles in the correct order.