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Yukon Solitaire Strategy Guide

Yukon Solitaire is a fun card game that requires the ability to plan elaborate sequences of long moves. It is quite unusual compared to other solitaire games, because it allows you to move stacks of cards when they are not in sequence.

It is not possible to win every Yukon Solitaire game, but a good player should be able to win more than 80% of the games he plays, if he uses the right strategy …

The key to getting it right in Yukon Solitaire is working backwards. Instead of making whatever moves are possible, the player should work to expose the up cards.

Starting with the first pile, look at the top card exposed. Then try to find another card that the exposed card can be moved to, and then try to rearrange the cards to make the move.

This could best be shown with an example:

Suppose the top card exposed in a column is a red 3. You need to find a black four to play. There is only a black four in play at the moment, and it has a black 6 directly underneath. So the black 6 needs to be moved … which means a red seven is needed. Suppose there is a red 7 visible at the bottom of a stack … Then the game would proceed like this:

Black 6 on Red 7

Red 3 on Black 4

And now a covered letter has been exposed in the column.

Now the sequence will usually take longer than that. Sometimes I have played sequences of more than 10 moves!

You will see that some columns cannot be exposed at this time. Either a card is missing in the sequence, or a card you need is already being used (in the example above, if the black four already had a red three underneath, the game would crash, because there would be nowhere to move the other red three on).

When that happens, move on to the next column. I find it useful to hover the mouse cursor over the column I am currently analyzing. This helps me remember which column I’m in, which can be particularly helpful if you’ve just been researching a really long sequence.

If you can’t find any columns that can be exposed, then it’s time to start looking for cards to release that can be moved to the base. Are there cards that you can move that allow you to free an Ace?

If you follow this advice, you should find that you can easily win at least 80% of the Yukon Solitaire games that you play.

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