A guide to your next move.
Meet Spiderette
Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. Spiderette on heryhuang.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten.
Seven growing columns
The following details apply here. 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 seventh opening column contains seven cards.
Twenty-four stock cards
A few details help explain this feature. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns. A full stock deal adds one card to each of the seven columns.
Place an exposed card
Here are the details for this mode. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. A destination card may belong to a different suit. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher.
Move a sequence
Here are the details for this mode. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit.
Open the hidden layout
A few details help explain this feature. 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. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed.
Keep columns occupied
The following details apply here. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column.
Collect all four suits
A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds.
Useful practice controls
The following details apply here. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation.
Return to Spiderette
The following details apply here. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Reloading the page can resume that position.