Meet Spiderette

The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. 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. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.

Seven growing columns

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

The remaining deck

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.

Build down by rank

A few details help explain this feature. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.

Move a sequence

Here are the details for this mode. 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. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal.

Expose another card

The following details apply here. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card. Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination.

Prepare to use the stock

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.

Four complete runs

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

Learn the shorter game

Keep these points in mind. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable.

Local progress and results

Here are the details for this mode. 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.