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Spiderette

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A quick guide to the game
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Select a face-up card, then a destination column. Dragging also works.

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Meet Spiderette

A few details help explain this feature. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. Spiderette on j5wan.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

Here are the details for this mode. 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 first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more.

Twenty-four stock cards

A few details help explain this feature. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. 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.

Place an exposed card

Here are the details for this mode. 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. A destination card may belong to a different suit. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.

Move a sequence

Keep these points in mind. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.

Open the hidden layout

A few details help explain this feature. Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. 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. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination.

Prepare to use the stock

The following details apply here. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. 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.

Four complete runs

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. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace.

Useful practice controls

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.

Return to Spiderette

Keep these points in mind. 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.