How to Play Double Yukon Solitaire

A two-deck variant where face-down cards reveal themselves as you work through the tableau. Build down in opposite color and move any group of face-up cards together.

Setup

1. Eight foundation piles start empty, ready for Aces
2. Ten tableau piles are dealt in a staggered pattern: the first has 5 face-up cards, and each pile after that has 6 face-up cards on top of a growing stack of face-down cards (1 face-down card in the second pile, up to 9 in the last)
3. This pyramid deal ensures many cards start hidden but gradually reveal as you move cards above them
4. No stock pile—all cards are in the tableau or foundations

How to play

• Move any group of exposed face-up cards from one tableau pile to another, building down in opposite color (move a red card onto a black card of the next rank, or vice versa)
• You can move unsequenced groups of face-up cards—only the bottom card must fit the destination
• When a face-down card becomes the top of its pile, it flips over automatically
• Cards automatically move to the foundations once no other card can be built on them—this behavior is adjustable in Settings
• Empty tableau piles can only be filled with a King or a group headed by a King

How to win

Objective: Move all 104 cards to the eight foundations, building each suit from Ace to King.

All 104 cards reach the eight foundations. You're stuck if no legal moves remain.

Tips

• Expose face-down cards early to open up your strategic options
• Take advantage of the ability to move unsequenced groups—this gives you flexibility to arrange cards for building foundations
• Create empty tableau piles by carefully moving Kings; they're your most powerful tool for reorganizing

Play Double Yukon free on Windows

CardTray is a free solitaire app for Windows that includes Double Yukon alongside 300+ other games. It saves every move as you play, so you can close the window and pick the game up later, replay any deal, and take on a new Daily Challenge deal every day. Browse every game in the Game Gallery.

Related games

More games from the Yukon family:

• Milligan Yukon — This double-deck game blends two classic mechanics: a triangular deal like Yukon and flexible tableau moves that let you shift any stack of face-up cards at once, not just neat sequences.
• Old Carlton — Old Carlton is a two-deck adaptation of Klondike with eight tableau piles and eight foundation piles.
• Quadruple Yukon — A four-deck version of Yukon with 16 tableau piles and no stock, letting you freely rearrange any face-up cards.
• Triple Yukon — Using three shuffled decks across thirteen piles, this Yukon relative buries cards deeply and rewards flexible group moves that dig out what's hidden below, feeding twelve foundations as you go.