Double Yukon Solitaire
How to play Double Yukon
Double Yukon is a two-deck Yukon solitaire in which all 104 cards are dealt to ten piles at the start and built up on eight foundations, two for each suit.
Yukon with two decks dealt into ten piles and eight foundations.
The goal of Double Yukon
Move all 104 cards onto the eight foundations, building each one up by suit from the Ace to the King.
How to set up Double Yukon
Double Yukon is played with two standard decks shuffled together, 104 cards in all, dealt into ten tableau piles. The piles hold 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 8 face-down cards with six face-up cards on top of each, so 44 cards start face down and there is no stock.
Double Yukon rules
Tableau piles build down one rank at a time in alternating colours: a red Seven goes on a black Eight. Any face-up card can move onto a pile whose top card it builds on, and every card lying on it moves with it, whether or not those cards are in order.
Only a King can fill an empty pile, together with any cards lying on it. When a move leaves a face-down card on top of its pile, that card is turned face up.
There are two foundations for each suit, and each one builds up by suit from the Ace to the King. A card on a foundation never comes back into play.
Click a card to play it: a top card goes to its foundation if it fits, otherwise the card and everything on it go onto the first pile it builds on, and a King into the first empty pile. Drag a card to choose where it goes yourself. With Autoplay off in Settings, only a drag moves a card.
How to win at Double Yukon
You win when all 104 cards are on the foundations. Once no card is face down and every pile is in descending order, Auto complete, on by default in Settings, moves the remaining cards up for you. The game is stuck when no card can move.
Double Yukon strategy tips
With two decks, a red Six may have four black Sevens to go on. Prefer one in a pile with no face-down cards left, since whatever you lay on a pile must move again before the cards under it can be turned up.
The last two piles hide eight face-down cards each. Work on them early, since an Ace buried there holds up a foundation until you reach it.
Each suit has two foundations, and a card goes to the first one that takes it. When both copies of a card could go up, send the one whose move turns up a face-down card.
Six face-up cards on each of ten piles put 60 of the 104 cards in view before your first move. The first pile has no face-down cards at all, so once its six cards have moved it is an empty pile waiting for a King.
Double Yukon questions and answers
How do you play Double Yukon solitaire?
Shuffle two decks together and deal ten piles with 0 to 8 face-down cards, eight in each of the last two, and six face-up cards on top of every pile. Build the piles down in alternating colours, moving any face-up card with every card lying on it, and fill an empty pile only with a King. You win when all 104 cards are on the eight foundations, built up by suit from Ace to King.
What is the difference between Double Yukon and Yukon?
Double Yukon is Yukon with two decks: 104 cards on ten piles, six face up on every pile, and two foundations for each suit. The moves are Yukon's.
Can every Double Yukon deal be won?
Not every one has been proved. Tested on 100 shuffled Double Yukon deals, the game's solver proved 92 winnable in the search a hint gets, found none lost, and could not settle the other 8. Its list of 500 proved deals took 541 shuffles to build, again with none proved lost. Switch on Winnable in the menu beside New deal and each new board comes from that list. The Hint button asks the same solver for a winning line before it suggests a move.
Is there a daily Double Yukon game?
Yes. Double Yukon has a daily board, the same deal for everyone that day, dealt the way a Winnable board is. You need to be logged in to play it.