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Yukon drops Klondike's stock pile and deals all 52 cards straight into seven columns, letting you haul any face-up card, messy stack and all, wherever it fits.

Yukon Solitaire takes Klondike's tableau and drops the stock pile entirely. All 52 cards go into the seven columns before you make a single move, so there's no waste pile to draw from later, only what you can dig up yourself.

The deal starts with one face-up card on pile one. Piles two through seven each get a run of face-down cards first (one on pile two, two on pile three, and so on up to six on pile seven), then five more cards dealt face up on top of each. From there you build down in alternating colors, same as Klondike, but Yukon's signature move is far looser: you can pick up any face-up card, along with everything sitting on top of it, and drop the whole stack onto another pile, even when those covering cards aren't in proper sequence themselves. Only a King, or a run of cards led by one, can fill an empty column, and the goal is still to walk every card up to the foundations by suit.

Its layout carries over almost exactly to Yukon Cells Solitaire, which adds free cells to the mix, and if you want to go back to the game it's built on, Solitaire is the classic worth revisiting.

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How to play Yukon Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Build up from Ace to King, one suit per pile.

7 tableau piles: Build down in alternating colors. You can move a card together with every card stacked on top of it in one go, no matter what order those cards are in. Only a King, alone or leading a group, may fill an empty column. Pile one gets a single face-up card to start; piles two through seven each get a run of face-down cards first, one more per pile as you move right, then five more cards dealt face up on top.

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 a King is the only card that can follow a Queen.

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 and the opposite color.

So on a red 5, only a black 4, the 4 of clubs or the 4 of spades, can be played.

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

Only a King, alone or with the cards on top of it, may fill an empty tableau column.

In fact, any face-up card can move together with every card stacked on top of it to another tableau pile, even if those top cards aren't in sequence themselves. That's what makes Yukon's tableau so flexible.