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Yukon One Suit strips away the color puzzle: every card's a spade, so you build straight down by rank, no stock to lean on, the gentlest door into Yukon.

Yukon One Suit Solitaire takes the bold, wide-open style of Yukon and strips it down to a single suit. Every one of the fifty-two cards on the table is a spade, so the usual worry about matching colors simply disappears — you build straight down by rank, and any card one lower than the target will do. It is the gentlest way into the Yukon family and a fine place to learn its unusual moves.

What makes Yukon itself special survives intact. All fifty-two cards are dealt at the start, most of them face-up, and you may pick up any face-up card together with the entire heap resting on top of it, whether or not those cards form a tidy sequence. That freedom to haul messy stacks around the tableau is the heart of the game, and with only one suit to track it becomes far more forgiving than the standard version. There is no stock to fall back on, so every card you need is already somewhere on the board.

Even so, the game rewards planning. Concentrate on freeing the face-down cards buried at the bottom of the longer columns, since every one you turn opens fresh possibilities. Only a King may move into an empty column, so clear a space for one when you can, and feed the four foundations up from Ace to King as steadily as the layout allows. Win the game by building all four suit-length runs of spades on the foundations.

If you enjoy Yukon One Suit, try the standard Yukon Solitaire or the Alaska Solitaire variant, or the larger Double Yukon Solitaire.

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How to play Yukon One Suit Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Build up from Ace to King. Because every card is a spade, the foundations simply climb in rank until each holds a complete Ace-to-King run.

7 tableau piles: Build down by rank, regardless of color, since all the cards share one suit. Move a card together with every card on top of it, no matter what order they are in. Place a King, or a group of cards led by a King, in an empty column. The first pile is dealt a single face-up card; each of the other six piles gets one more face-down card than the last, plus five face-up cards on top.

Foundation:

There are four foundation piles.

Any Ace may be moved to an empty foundation pile to start it.

A card can be added to a foundation pile only if it's one rank higher than the pile's current top card. Because there is only one suit, this simply means a card of the next rank up, so only a 6 fits on a 5, and only a 7 on a 6.

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

Tableau:

Seven tableau piles are dealt at the start, with the lower cards of each pile face-down and the upper cards face-up.

A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower than the pile's current top card. Suit and color never matter here, because every card is a spade, so any 4 fits on any 5.

Any face-up card on the tableau, however deeply it is buried, may be moved along with all the cards stacked on top of it to another column where it fits.

Cards on the tableau that are not below another card can be played to the foundation or any other tableau pile.

Only a King, or a group of cards led by a King, may fill an empty column.