Spider in a smaller layout
The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. Spiderette on happy5888.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes.
The opening staircase
The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. The seventh opening column contains seven cards.
Twenty-four stock cards
Here are the details for this mode. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. 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.
Place an exposed card
The following details apply here. 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
A few details help explain this feature. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Open the hidden layout
Here are the details for this mode. 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.
Prepare to use the stock
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. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column.
Collect all four suits
A few details help explain this feature. 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. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds.
Useful practice controls
A few details help explain this feature. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable. 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.
Return to Spiderette
Here are the details for this mode. Reloading the page can resume that position. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider.