Spider Solitaire is a two-deck Patience game played across ten columns. Clear all 104 cards by making eight complete runs from King down to Ace, each in one suit. The one-suit version uses spades, two suits uses spades and hearts, and four suits uses spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs. Every version has the same ranks, number of cards and rules. Extra suits make organising the columns more demanding, because a mixed-suit sequence cannot travel together.
The first four columns hold six cards each and the other six hold five. Only the top card of each column is face up. There are 54 cards in the tableau and 50 in the stock, arranged as five packets of ten. Cards below the face-up cards stay hidden until you uncover them. When a move removes the last exposed card above a hidden card, that card turns over automatically. You can study the visible ranks before choosing a move; the daily clock begins only when you press Start.
Put any exposed card on a card one rank higher, regardless of suit. A heart 7 can therefore rest on a spade 8. To move several cards together, however, they must form an unbroken descending sequence in the same suit. A spade 8, spade 7 and spade 6 travel together; a spade 8 followed by a heart 7 does not. Select the highest card of the run you want to move. A shorter suited suffix may move even when cards above it belong to another suit. Any card or legal suited run can fill an empty column.
Build King, Queen, Jack, 10 and the remaining ranks down to Ace, all in one suit and all face up in the same column. The entire run moves to a completed-run space automatically. This earns no extra move: it is part of the move or stock deal that completed it. Removing a run can expose another hidden card, or even another complete run underneath. Eight completed runs win the game. In one-suit Spider all eight runs are spades. Two suits needs four of each suit; four suits needs two of each.
Press Deal or tap the stock to put one new face-up card on each column, from left to right. You may deal only when every column contains at least one card. An empty column is useful for organising cards, but you must fill it before taking another stock packet. The number on the stock shows packets remaining, rather than individual cards. Once all five packets are used, there are no recycles or extra cards. Undo can reverse an entire stock packet and any runs it sent home, restoring the exact previous board.
Every daily and winnable-pack starting deal here has a checked legal solution. Random shuffles are not guaranteed to be winnable.
Only a descending sequence in one suit moves together. Mixed suits can be built down but need to be separated before the whole sequence can move.
Every column must contain at least one card before you deal ten more. Fill any empty columns first.
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