How to Play Queenie Solitaire

Queenie mixes alternating-color tableau building with the freedom to move cards out of strict order, and a stock that deals a card onto every pile at once. You only get one pass through the stock, so make it count.

Setup

1. Deal 1 card to the first tableau pile, 2 to the second, 3 to the third, and so on through 7 piles (all face up).
2. Place the remaining 24 cards in the stock.

How to play

• Build foundations upward in suit from Ace through King.
• Build tableau piles downward in alternating colors (red on black, black on red).
• Any group of face-up cards can move together, even non-sequential groups—only the card at the bottom of the group must fit the destination.
• Only Kings or groups with a King at the bottom fill empty tableau piles.
• Click the stock to deal one card to each tableau pile.
• You get only one pass through the stock, so use it wisely.
• Cards automatically move to the foundations once no other card could be built on them (you can change this behavior in Settings).

How to win

Objective: Move all 52 cards to the 4 foundation piles.

You win when all cards are on the foundations. With just one deal, successful games require careful timing.

Tips

• Move non-sequential groups to unblock cards or create workspace, rather than always building clean sequences.
• Save dealing for when you're truly stuck, since you only get one pass.
• Empty a tableau pile early as a buffer space for strategic moves.

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Related games

More games from the Yukon family:

• Russian Cell — Russian Cell combines FreeCell-style cells with a tableau containing hidden cards.
• Ten Across — A tableau where every pile mixes face-down and face-up cards, plus two temporary cells where you can park single cards.
• Tvete's Grandfather — This tough one-deck game deals every card straight into seven uneven tableau piles, some far deeper than others.
• Ukrainian — Ukrainian only lets you send a full run of 13 cards, Ace to King in one suit, to the foundations at once, so you'll need to build the whole sequence in the tableau before it counts.
• Yakutat Bay — A Yukon variant with the same seven-pile layout and the same freedom to move face-up cards as a group regardless of their order.