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Scorpion Solitaire vs Yukon: what changes when cards move

Scorpion and Yukon share an unusual freedom: a face-up card can carry every card below it even when the packet is unordered. The important difference is where that packet may land.

Scorpion after three moves with seven columns and the reserve available
Real Scorpion screenshot with the reserve and tableau visible.
Yukon after six moves with a column emptied
Real Yukon screenshot with an empty column and rearranged packets.

What they share: moving unordered packets

In both variants you can select a face-up card and move it with every card beneath it, even when those cards do not form an ordered run. The move is most useful when it reveals a face-down card or clears a route through the tableau.

Both published builds include undo, hints, a daily challenge and local saves. Those helpers do not make the games identical: the legal destination for a packet still determines the problem you are solving.

The difference: suit building in Scorpion, colours in Yukon

In Scorpion, a packet lands on the next higher card of the same suit. The goal is four complete King-to-Ace suit runs in the tableau. Empty spaces take only a King, and the three-card reserve is dealt once.

In Yukon, foundations build Ace to King by suit while tableau columns build down in alternating colours. There is no stock: all 52 cards are dealt at the start. An empty column is also for a King, yet alternating colours create different destinations from Scorpion's same-suit runs.

Which one to choose

Choose Scorpion when you want to manage same-suit runs and decide when a one-time reserve is worth dealing. It rewards preserving a useful King and noticing which hidden card a packet will reveal.

Choose Yukon when you prefer every card to be present from the opening without a reserve. Its alternating colours and foundations make the central question how to expose cards and clear columns, rather than how to complete a suit run in place. Open either game page to play its current published version.

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