Queenie takes the freest move rule in solitaire and puts it on a board where nothing is hidden. Seven columns are dealt a staircase of one to seven cards, every one of them face up, and the remaining twenty-four form a stock. The Yukon rule applies: any face-up card may be moved, carrying every card on top of it, packed or not. Cards build down in alternating colour, only a king fills an empty column, and the foundations go up in suit from an ace. The stock is the twist — clicking it deals one card to every column at once, an emptied one included. Free in your browser, no sign-up, and it works offline once the page has loaded.
Goal: build all 52 cards onto the four foundations, up in suit from an ace.
Queenie belongs to a small group of Yukon variants that PySolFC marks as extra-original — games built on the Yukon move rule but dealt and fed like Klondike. The combination is unusual and works better than it sounds. Yukon proper deals every card at the start and hides most of them; Queenie deals an open staircase and holds twenty-four cards back, so the game has an opening you can fully analyse and a middle where new material keeps arriving. The stock is the unusual part: it has no waste, so a click deals straight onto the columns, one card each, and there is no second pass. That makes an empty column a fleeting thing — the next deal will fill it — and turns the usual advice about hoarding spaces on its head. The open-source PySolFC collection, whose rules this version follows, rates the game balanced, and it sits alongside Rushdike, which is the same board dealt face down and built in suit.
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Any face-up card may be moved, carrying every card on top of it, whether or not they form a packed sequence. It is the freest move rule in solitaire.
No. The whole staircase is dealt face up. The only thing you do not know is the order of the twenty-four cards in the stock.
It deals one card to every column, face up. There is no waste pile and no second pass through the stock.
Yes, which is why an empty column here is temporary. Use a space for a king straight away rather than saving it.
Only a king, as in Yukon. That, and the alternating-colour build, are inherited unchanged.
Same board and same stock, but the staircase is dealt face down and the tableau builds down in suit rather than alternating colour.