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

Meet Spiderette

The following details apply here. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Spiderette on worldgbhc.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.

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

A few details help explain this feature. 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. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock.

Build down by rank

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

One suit travels together

The following details apply here. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. 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

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. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination.

Prepare to use the stock

Keep these points in mind. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal.

Collect all four suits

Here are the details for this mode. 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

Here are the details for this mode. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable. 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.

Return to Spiderette

Here are the details for this mode. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Reloading the page can resume that position. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled.