A guide to your next move.
Spider in a smaller layout
Here are the details for this mode. 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 sdrwjskj.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten.
The opening staircase
The following details apply here. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether.
Twenty-four stock cards
A few details help explain this feature. A full stock deal adds one card to each of the seven columns. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards.
Build down by rank
A few details help explain this feature. 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. A destination card may belong to a different suit.
One suit travels together
A few details help explain this feature. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Open the hidden layout
Here are the details for this mode. 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. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination.
Keep columns occupied
Keep these points in mind. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling.
Four complete runs
A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace.
Learn the shorter game
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.
Return to Spiderette
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. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Reloading the page can resume that position.