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Australian Patience takes the group moves from Yukon and adds a stock like the one in Klondike. Every card on the board is face up, and you can lift any of them along with everything on top.
The catch is the build: columns go down in the same suit, and you only see each stock card once. A card you pass over early can be the one you end up needing.
Twenty-eight cards are dealt face up into seven columns of four. The other 24 cards form the stock, and the four foundations start empty.
Move all 52 cards to the foundations. Once the stock and waste are gone, autocomplete can finish the game when the remaining cards go up in order.
We ran our own solver on 200 shuffled deals of this version. It found a win in 41 of 200 (21%), and ran out of its budget of 20,000 positions a deal on 159.
Those undecided deals may still be winnable, so treat the win count as a minimum. The solver can see every card, including face-down ones, so it measures what the cards allow, not how often a person will win.
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Yukon deals every card to the board and builds in alternating colors. Australian Patience keeps 24 cards in a stock, deals everything else face up, and builds in the same suit.
No. This version gives you one pass, and the cards you leave behind stay on the waste, where only the top one can be played.
Yes. Pick up any card with everything on top of it. Only the card you picked up has to be one rank below the target card and in the same suit.
No. Only a King, or a group that starts with a King.