Yukon Solitaire - Cards

Play Yukon Solitaire - Cards!

Move the whole pile, ordered or not

Most patience games let you lift a group of cards only when that group is already a clean sequence. Yukon throws the restriction away. Point at any face-up card anywhere in a column, the third one down or the seventh, and everything sitting on top of it comes along in whatever jumbled order it happens to be in. The only thing that has to be legal is where it lands: one rank lower, opposite colour.

There is no stock and no draw pile. All fifty-two cards are on the table from the start, spread across seven columns of one, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven cards. The first is a lone face-up card; each of the others hides everything but its top five. Nothing is held back, so nothing will arrive to rescue you. Every card you need is already in front of you, usually underneath something else.

That combination gives the game its character. Big lifts are cheap, which encourages bold rearranging, but each one buries whatever it lands on. Progress comes from the face-down cards you turn over, and only a king, alone or carrying a pile, may take an empty column.

In the app

• Undo across a history of a hundred moves
• A hint when you have stared at the board long enough
• Games, wins, best times and score kept over time
• Several card backs and table colours
• Runs with no connection, in 33 languages

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