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Spiderette

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One table.
Endless possibilities.
Learn the rules

4 SUITS Ready to play
Time 00:00 Moves 0 Runs 0 / 4

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

NOTES FROM THE TABLE

Meet Spiderette

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 contraem.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits.

The opening staircase

The following details apply here. 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. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more.

Twenty-four stock cards

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. A full stock deal adds one card to each of the seven columns.

Build down by rank

Here are the details for this mode. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.

One suit travels together

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

Open the hidden layout

Here are the details for this mode. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed. 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

The following details apply here. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. 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.

Collect all four suits

The following details apply here. 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. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column.

Learn the shorter game

The following details apply here. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable. 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.

Local progress and results

A few details help explain this feature. Reloading the page can resume that position. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. 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.