Yukon

Yukon looks like Klondike and does not play like it. Seven columns, alternating colours, foundations up by suit — but there is no stock, so the entire deck is on the table from the first move, and the game is decided by how you rearrange what you already have rather than by what you draw.

The other difference is the move rule, and it is a big one: you may lift any face-up card along with everything stacked on it, regardless of order. Ragged piles become portable, which means a column that looks hopelessly blocked can often be shifted wholesale to get at the one card you need. It rewards a different instinct from Klondike — less digging, more logistics.

All 52 cards are dealt at the start into seven columns of uneven length, with the top five cards of each column face up. There is no stock and no waste — everything you will ever have is on the table from the first move. Columns build down in alternating colours and the four foundations build up by suit from Ace. The rule that makes Yukon its own game is the move: you can pick up any face-up card together with every card sitting on top of it, and those cards do not need to be in any order. So you shift ragged piles around rather than tidy sequences.

Having no stock means there is no luck left to wait for — every card you will get is already dealt, and a stuck position is permanent. That makes Yukon a game of sequencing rather than probing, and the deep columns are where the work is: the eleven-card column hides six face-down cards and getting into it early is usually decisive. The group-move rule is far more powerful than it first appears, because you can relocate a whole blocked pile to expose one card underneath, so look for the card you want and ask what has to move rather than looking for tidy runs. Be reluctant to send cards to foundations — with no stock to fall back on, a card banked early is gone for good.