Meet Spiderette
The following details apply here. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. Spiderette on mande816.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes.
Seven growing columns
The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up.
Twenty-four stock 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. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards.
Place an exposed card
The following details apply here. 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. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.
One suit travels together
Keep these points in mind. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. 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
Keep these points in mind. 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. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed.
Prepare to use the stock
An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. 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.
Collect all four suits
A few details help explain this feature. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck.
Useful practice controls
Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. 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
A few details help explain this feature. Reloading the page can resume that position. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider.