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Spiderette

Explore Spiderette, with the details close at hand. The information is separated into sections for easier reading.

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Select a face-up card, then a destination column. Dragging also works.

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Spider in a smaller layout

Keep these points in mind. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. 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 khgdzz.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits.

The opening staircase

The following details apply here. 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.

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.

Place an exposed card

The following details apply here. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. 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. A destination card may belong to a different suit.

Move a sequence

The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group.

Open the hidden layout

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

An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. 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. 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.

Learn the shorter game

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

Return to Spiderette

Here are the details for this mode. 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. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled.