Brisbane keeps the rule that makes Yukon what it is — any face-up card may be lifted and carried with everything piled on it, sequence or no sequence — and then removes almost every other restriction. The tableau builds down by rank with suit ignored completely, so any 7 goes on any 8. An empty column takes any card at all, not just a King. What it does not change is the goal: the foundations still want Ace to King in a single suit. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Goal: build all four foundations from Ace to King by suit.
This is one of the freest boards in the catalogue, and that is the difficulty rather than the relief. Everything moves; very little of it helps.
Brisbane is registered in the PySol Fan Club collection as a Yukon variant, and it makes two changes to the parent game. Its tableau stack tests only the rank, so its own help text reads "Build down regardless of suit, can move any face-up cards regardless of sequence." And because that stack is used without a wrapper, it keeps the default that lets any card fill an empty column — where Yukon itself demands a King.
Its deal is worth stating because it is not the usual staircase. The first loop gives column j exactly j hidden cards; three full rows and one more give every column four face-up cards; and the last three cards land on the first three columns. That produces 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10 — an uneven shape with two columns of the same depth in the middle.
Suit-blind building with the goal left alone is a recurring idea across this catalogue, and it always produces the same shape of problem. Black Widow does it in the Spider family; KingCell does it in FreeCell. In all three the lesson is that a rule making movement easy does not make finishing easier — it just moves the work from execution to planning.
For the strict original, play Yukon. For the same board with alternating-colour building both ways, play Roslin; for open spaces with the colour rule intact, Ukrainian Solitaire.
One honest note on difficulty. No published win rate for Brisbane that we can reach carries a method or a sample size, so this page quotes none. It is generally reckoned among the gentler members of the family, and structurally that is fair — but the suit-blind build makes it very easy to build a position you then have to undo.
Two rules. Brisbane builds down by rank with suit ignored entirely, and it lets any card fill an empty column where Yukon demands a King. The deal shape differs slightly too, and the move-anything rule is unchanged.
Yes. The tableau checks only the rank, so the 7 of spades lands on the 8 of spades as readily as on the 8 of hearts. Suits and colours are irrelevant for building.
No, and that is the tension of the game. Foundations build up in suit from the Ace, so a tidy mixed-suit column in the tableau has to be dismantled before any of it can be banked.
Any card, with whatever tail it is carrying. That makes an empty column a genuine staging area here rather than somewhere only a King can sit.
Because the last three cards land on the first three columns. That gives 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9 and 10 — two columns of the same depth in the middle rather than a clean staircase.
Building long mixed-suit columns because they are easy to build. Those cards cannot be banked in that order and must all be taken apart again, so a messy sorted board beats a tidy unsorted one.