Yukon — Rules
layout
- One deck, 52 cards
- Tableau piles: 7
- Foundations: 4
- No stock — all cards are dealt at the start
- A complete king-to-ace sequence of one suit is removed automatically
goal & play
goal
Move all 52 cards to the four foundations — one suit per foundation, in order from ace to king: ace, 2, 3 … jack, queen, king.
There is no stock: every card starts on the table in seven piles — the first holds one face-up card, the others one to six face-down with five face up on top. You may move any face-up card together with everything lying on it, even when those cards form no order at all. The only condition concerns the card you land on: it must be one rank higher and of the opposite color, so a red nine goes onto a black ten with its whole tail. An empty pile belongs to a king alone, who may bring his whole tail too. A face-down card turns over by itself once it becomes the top of its pile. An ace that reaches the top goes to its foundation by itself — on the deal too, so some games open with an ace already up there.
nuances
A card on a foundation never comes back — a deuce sent up there will not help you dig out a pile again.
tactics
Do not hurry the higher cards up, and dig as early as you can: any face-up card can move, so every card you uncover is one more move.
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