Yukon 0.6


How to play Yukon Solitaire

  You can move stacks of cards.

  A red nine goes on a black ten for example.

  Build foundations in suits.

  Kings can move to an empty column.


  See the WWW for a better description!


Installation

  There is no installer, just double click yukon.exe.
  You can also create a shortcut to it on your desktop.


How to play this Yukon computer game

  Drag with the left button to move a card or stack of cards.

  X - exit game / start a new game.

  Escape - exit the program.

  Right click to move a card or stack of cards to the foundations.

  Right click on a King to move all possible cards to the foundation.

	W - hint (what move).  The first hint is the best one.  Press W again for
  other moves.  You can also left-click "show hint".

  M - move.  The computer will move for you, using the previous shown hint or
  the best move.  You can also right-click "show hint".

  P - auto-pilot.  The computer will play.  It tries to win without cheating.
  It follows the strategy described here:
    http://www.solitairecentral.com/articles/YukonSolitaireStrategyGuide.html
  It wins many games but not 80% as claimed on that website!  Auto-pilot will
  stop if it wins, or when it thinks it can't win and it can't make any more
  sensible moves.  You can press P again to turn it off.  The AI could be
  improved.

  F - fast mode.  Animations are disabled so the auto-pilot and hints will work
  faster.  Press F again to disable fast mode.

  Up and Down arrow - speed up or slow down the animations.

	To change a card, click it, then type a new rank and suit, like AH -> Ace of
  Hearts, 9S -> Nine of Spades, KD -> King of Diamonds, TC -> Ten of Clubs.

	You can change many cards in sequence, going down the columns.  At the start
	of a new game, you can start typing cards from the top-left card immediately.
  Whenever a new card is revealed, you can immediately type what it should be.


Todo List

  Improve the AI so it can win more games.


Distribution

  The Windows executable and source code are included here.

  Yukon also runs on GNU/Linux.
  Yukon is written in Brace, my programming language.
  Yukon is included with Brace as an example program:

    http://sam.nipl.net/brace/

  Yukon and Brace are public domain software.
  The source code is in the file yukon.


Author

  Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net>
  http://sam.nipl.net/contact.html
  http://sam.nipl.net/