Spider in a smaller layout
A few details help explain this feature. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Spiderette on pnolf.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.
Seven growing columns
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. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether.
The remaining deck
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. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards.
Build down by rank
A few details help explain this feature. A destination card may belong to a different suit. 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. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.
Move a sequence
The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Expose another card
Here are the details for this mode. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card. 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.
Prepare to use the stock
Here are the details for this mode. 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.
Four complete runs
One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. 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.
Learn the shorter game
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
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