About Yukon Solitaire – Play Yukon Solitaire Online

Yukon Solitaire is a tableau-based card game in which all 52 cards are dealt into the playing area and there is no stock.

The goal is to move all cards to the four foundations, building each suit upward from Ace to King.

What makes Yukon unusual is its movement rule: you can select any face-up card and move it together with every card lying above it. The cards travelling with it do not need to form an ordered sequence.

How is the tableau built?

When moving a card or group onto another column, only the selected starting card has to fit the destination.

It must be exactly one rank lower than the destination card and of the opposite color.

For example, a black 7 can be moved onto a red 8.

Can an unordered group really be moved together?

Yes. This is the defining movement rule of Yukon.

Any face-up card can be selected together with all cards above it. The internal ranks and colors of those accompanying cards do not need to form a valid sequence.

Only the card at the bottom of the moving group needs to fit legally onto the destination.

This makes it possible to move large parts of a column simply to uncover a useful card underneath.

What happens when a hidden card is uncovered?

When a face-down card becomes the top card of a column, it is automatically turned face up.

Uncovering these cards is a major part of Yukon strategy because there is no stock to provide additional cards later.

Everything you will use is already somewhere on the tableau.

How do the foundations work?

The four foundations are built upward in the same suit, beginning with Ace and ending with King.

Cards move to the foundations one at a time.

Can foundation cards be moved back?

This depends on the selected FlyOrDie difficulty.

• In Easy mode, the top foundation card can be moved back to a tableau column when it fits legally.
• In Classic mode, the top foundation card can also be returned to the tableau.
• In Hard mode, cards cannot be moved back from a foundation.

Hard mode therefore makes foundation moves more permanent and requires more caution before sending a card away from the tableau.

What can be moved into an empty column?

The rule also changes with difficulty.

In Easy mode, any available card or moving group can be placed in an empty column.

In Classic and Hard modes, an empty column can only be filled with a King or with a group whose selected starting card is a King.

This gives Easy mode much more freedom for reorganizing the tableau.

Does Yukon have a stock pile?

No. FlyOrDie Yukon has no stock.

If the card you need is unavailable, you must find a way to reach it by moving cards already present on the tableau or by advancing the foundations.

This is one of the biggest differences between Yukon and Klondike.

Why is exposing cards so important?

Since no new cards will be drawn later, progress comes from opening the existing columns.

A move that shifts a large irregular group may look untidy, but it can be excellent if it turns over a hidden card.

Yukon therefore rewards access more than perfectly organized visible sequences.

Do not play Yukon like Klondike

Players familiar with Klondike often look only for properly ordered movable runs. In Yukon, that unnecessarily limits the available moves.

Remember that the cards above your selected card can be in any order. Use that freedom to reach blocked cards.

How does difficulty change the strategy?

Easy mode gives you the most freedom because any group can enter an empty column and foundation cards can return to play.

Classic keeps foundation reversibility but restricts empty columns to Kings.

Hard combines the King-only empty-column rule with irreversible foundation moves, making decisions about card order much more important.

Play Yukon Solitaire online on FlyOrDie

FlyOrDie Yukon is built around its distinctive group-movement rule: select any face-up card and move every card above it along with it.

Use those large moves to uncover hidden cards, build downward in alternating colors and move each suit to its foundation from Ace to King.

Easy, Classic and Hard modes change how empty columns and foundation cards behave, giving the same basic game noticeably different levels of flexibility.

With no stock to rely on, Yukon is primarily a game of access, rearrangement and finding the right order in which to free the cards already on the table.