Triple Yukon Solitaire
How to play Triple Yukon
Triple Yukon is a three-deck Yukon solitaire in which all 156 cards are dealt to thirteen piles at the start and built up on twelve foundations, three for each suit.
Yukon with three decks dealt into thirteen piles and twelve foundations.
The goal of Triple Yukon
Move all 156 cards onto the twelve foundations, building each one up by suit from the Ace to the King.
How to set up Triple Yukon
Triple Yukon is played with three standard decks shuffled together, 156 cards in all, dealt into thirteen tableau piles. The piles hold 0 to 12 face-down cards, one more in each pile from left to right, with six face-up cards on top of each, so 78 cards start face down and there is no stock.
Triple 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 three 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 Triple Yukon
You win when all 156 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.
Triple Yukon strategy tips
Half of the 156 cards, 78 of them, start face down. A red Six can go on any of six black Sevens, so a card seldom waits long for a place; the hard part is the hidden cards, so prefer the move that turns one up.
The piles on the right hide the most cards, twelve in the last one. Start on them early, since every face-down card there waits for the cards above it to move.
There are twelve Kings and thirteen piles, and only a King can fill an empty pile. Save each empty pile for the King with the most face-down cards under it.
Triple Yukon questions and answers
How do you play Triple Yukon solitaire?
Shuffle three decks together and deal thirteen piles with 0 to 12 face-down cards and six face-up cards on top of each. 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 156 cards are on the twelve foundations, built up by suit from Ace to King.
What is the difference between Triple Yukon and Double Yukon?
Triple Yukon adds a third deck: 156 cards on thirteen piles instead of 104 on ten, with three foundations for each suit instead of two. Both put six face-up cards on every pile, and the moves are the same.
Can every Triple Yukon deal be won?
Not every one has been proved, since a board of 156 cards is slow to search. Tested on 100 shuffled Triple Yukon deals, the game's solver proved 73 winnable in the search a hint gets and could not settle the other 27, though it found none lost. Given a far longer search, it proved 500 of 599 deals tried, and those 500 are its list. 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 Triple Yukon game?
Yes. Triple 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.