Play Brisbane Solitaire Online for Free (No Signup Required)

Brisbane deals like Yukon but drops the suit rule entirely, so almost any card fits. Medium difficulty, 80% win rate, skill and luck both matter.

Brisbane Solitaire starts from a Yukon-style deal, but lets you build without worrying about suit at all. It's medium in difficulty, with an 80% chance of winning, and skill and luck both play a part.

It sits alongside Australian Solitaire and Yukon Solitaire itself in that same family of games.

If you run into anything odd or have an idea that would make the game better, please contact me.

Have fun playing!

How to play Brisbane Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Build up from Ace to King in the same suit.

7 tableau piles: Build down regardless of suit. You can move a card together with every card stacked on top of it, no matter what order those cards are in. Only Kings can fill an empty pile. Every pile starts with a run of face-down cards that grows by one from pile to pile, none on the first pile, up to six on the seventh; the first three piles then get five more cards face up, and the last four get four more face up. That's the whole deck dealt out, there's no stock in this one.

Foundation:

There are four foundation piles.

Any ace may start an empty foundation pile.

A card can be added if it's one rank higher than the pile's current top card and the same suit.

So the only card that can follow a 10 of spades is the Jack of spades.

The top card of a foundation pile can be moved back into play if another pile will take it.

Tableau:

The seven tableau piles are set up as described above, mixing face-down and face-up cards depending on the column.

A card can be added to a tableau pile if it's one rank lower than the pile's top card, regardless of suit.

So the only card that can follow a Jack is a 10, of any suit.

Any card not covered by another card is free to move to a foundation or another tableau pile.

Only Kings can fill an empty tableau space.

Any face-up card in the tableau, along with everything stacked on top of it, can move together to another tableau pile where it fits, even if those top cards aren't in sequence themselves.