Yukon Solitaire

Written by Steve Moore

Overview

Yukon Solitaire is a solitaire game played with the standard 52 card deck. The object is to arrange cards of the same suit from ace to king.

Rules

The board is setup with seven stacks of cards, and four home stacks. The goal is to move all cards to the home stacks in ascending order from ace to king of the same suit. Cards are placed one at a time in order on the home stacks. The seven stacks of cards are dealt. The first stack has just one face up card. The remaining have one ( second stack ) increasing to six ( seventh stack ) cards face down and five cards face up. Cards can be moved between the stacks by placing red cards on black cards in ascending order ( You can move cards as deep in the a stack as you wish. The red to black ascending relationship only applies to the top card being moved and the last card in the stack to which it is moved. ). When a card is moved of a stack with a face down card being exposed it will be flipped over automatically. A card can also be played on the home stack, if it is an ace or the next card in ascending order of a suit in one of the home stacks. Once moves are exhausted on the board the next set of cards can be flipped over from the deck. The top card in the flipped over cards from the deck can be played using the same rules described for the stacks. Play will continue until all moves are exhausted or until all cards are moved to the home stacks and the game is won.

Scoring

A point is scored when a card is moved to one of the home stacks. A total of 52 points can be scored, one for each card in the deck. The current score is indicated in the status bar at the bottom of the game window.

Game Play

Cards that are movable will be indicated when the mouse is over them with the open hand icon. Cards with the open hand icon displayed over them can be dragged and dropped to another stack or clicked to move them to another stack. Hints of possible moves are available from the menu select Control->Hint.