A guide to your next move.
Spider in a smaller layout
The following details apply here. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. Spiderette on ahthdj.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten.
The opening staircase
A few details help explain this feature. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up.
The remaining deck
The following details apply here. 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
Here are the details for this mode. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal.
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. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card.
Prepare to use the stock
Keep these points in mind. 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. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain.
Collect all four suits
A few details help explain this feature. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. 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.
Learn the shorter game
Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable.
Return to Spiderette
The following details apply here. 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.