Meet Spiderette
Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. Spiderette on zxhyhb.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits.
The opening staircase
The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. 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 remaining deck
A few details help explain this feature. 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. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock.
Build down by rank
Here are the details for this mode. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. 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
Keep these points in mind. 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. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Open the hidden layout
Keep these points in mind. 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. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card.
Prepare to use the stock
A few details help explain this feature. 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. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds.
Useful practice controls
Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable.
Return to Spiderette
Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Reloading the page can resume that position. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider.