Meet Spiderette

The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. Spiderette on fs-weida.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten.

Seven growing columns

The seventh opening column contains seven cards. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up.

The remaining deck

Here are the details for this mode. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. A full stock deal adds one card to each of the seven columns. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards.

Build down by rank

Here are the details for this mode. A destination card may belong to a different suit. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher.

One suit travels together

Here are the details for this mode. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.

Expose another card

Keep these points in mind. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card.

Keep columns occupied

A few details help explain this feature. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain.

Collect all four suits

The following details apply here. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds.

Useful practice controls

Here are the details for this mode. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable.

Return to Spiderette

Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Reloading the page can resume that position. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results.