Spider Solitaire
In Spider Solitaire you have two decks, ten columns, build runs down regardless of suit. Free, no install, no sign-up, works offline in your browser.
In Spider Solitaire, two full decks, ten columns, and one goal: assemble king down to ace in a single suit, eight times over. Unlike the other patience games here, the colour of a card does not matter when you stack.
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How to play Spider Solitaire
Stacking ignores colour completely
A card goes onto any card one rank higher, whatever its suit. A red six will sit happily on a red seven. This is the single biggest difference from the seven-column patience game and FreeCell, where colours must alternate.
But only one suit travels together
You can move a whole ordered run in one go only if every card in it is the same suit. A mixed-suit run has to be unpicked one card at a time. That is why assembling same-suit runs, rather than just descending ones, is what wins the game.
Empty columns accept anything
As in FreeCell and unlike the seven-column game, any card can start an empty column. Because there are only ten columns, an empty one is scarce and usually worth keeping free.
Dealing requires no empty columns
Fifty cards remain after the deal and come out in five rounds of ten, one card per column. A round can only be dealt when all ten columns already hold at least one card — an empty column blocks the deal until you fill it. Ten cards arrive face up at once, so a blocked deal is a real trap.
Collecting a set
When a column holds a same-suit run from king down to ace, all thirteen cards are removed together and counted. Collecting eight sets clears the game.
No deal is guaranteed to be winnable
The cards are shuffled at random and a round is not guaranteed to be solvable. Spider is the hardest of the patience games here for exactly that reason, and this page will not claim otherwise.
Spider Solitaire Tips and Strategy
Finish a suit whenever you can
A completed king-to-ace run leaves an empty column behind, and an empty column is the one thing Spider never hands out for free. It lets any card start a fresh stack and it reopens the deal. Leave a nearly finished suit sitting on the board and the next row of ten will bury it.
Chase the scarcer suit first
In a two-suit deal one suit appears more often than the other, and the scarcer one runs out before the common one does. Build toward that suit first and use the plentiful suit to clear space and complete sets. Treating the two suits as equally available is how two-suit deals get abandoned half-finished.
Only move one-suit runs
A run that changes suit cannot be lifted as a unit, so every card in it has to be moved and rehomed on its own. That is slow and it litters your columns with loose cards. Lift the parts that are genuinely single-suit, even when it looks less efficient, and leave the mixed runs until the suits realign.
Deal only from a low point
Every deal drops ten more cards on top of your columns, so dealing from a position that is already buried makes the whole board harder to reach. Deal when the tableau is as open as it is going to get. Remember that an empty column blocks the deal entirely until you fill it, so clear that gap first.
Spider Solitaire — Frequently Asked Questions
Why can I only move part of a run?
Because only a same-suit ordered run moves as a group. If the run changes suit partway, you have to move it a card at a time, and you need somewhere to put each one.
Why will it not deal me a new row?
One of the ten columns is empty. Dealing is only allowed when every column already has a card, so fill the gap first.
Do suits matter at all when stacking?
Not when stacking — any suit stacks on any other. They matter only for moving a run as a group and for collecting a set.
Is every round winnable?
No. The cards are shuffled at random, and Spider is genuinely hard. Nothing on this page claims a guaranteed solution.
Does it need installing or an account?
No. It runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer and works offline after the first visit.
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