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How to play Spider Solitaire

Spider is a patience game played with two decks (104 cards). The goal is to build complete runs from King down to Ace in one suit inside the columns. Each finished run is removed automatically; after eight runs you have won.

Layout

• Ten columns: the first four get 6 cards, the other six get 5 cards each – 54 in total. Only the bottom card of each column is face up.
• Stock: the remaining 50 cards are enough for five deals of ten cards.

Rules

1. A card may go on any card that is exactly one rank higher, whatever the suit (e.g. 7 of hearts on 8 of spades).
2. You can only move several cards together if they form a descending run in the same suit.
3. Any card or same-suit run may go into an empty column.
4. When the last face-up card of a column is moved away, the face-down card below is turned over.
5. Tapping the stock deals one new card onto every column – but only when no column is empty.
6. When King to Ace of one suit lie in order in a column, the run is removed.

1, 2 or 4 suits

Difficulty depends on how many suits are in play. With 1 suit all 104 cards are spades, so every fitting card extends a run. 2 suits means 52 spades and 52 hearts, 4 suits two complete decks. The more suits, the less often runs fit together. The 4-suit game is considered hard: according to Wikipedia, good play wins about one game in three.

Scoring

Scoring follows the Windows version: you start with 500 points. Every action costs 1 point – dealing and undo included – and every completed run earns 100 points. Winning in 150 moves therefore gives 500 − 150 + 800 = 1,150 points. Here the score never drops below 0.

Controls

• Drag & drop: drag a card or run with mouse or finger onto the target column.
• Tap to move: tap the card first (a higher card selects the run from there), then the target column.
• Double-tap sends the card or run to the best target – same suit first.
• Hint highlights a useful move, Undo goes back up to 60 steps.

Tips

• Build in the same suit whenever you can: mixed runs cannot be moved as a whole later.
• An empty column is very valuable – use it to rearrange before you fill it with a King.
• Turn over as many face-down cards as possible before dealing; each deal puts a card on every column.

Privacy

Your current game, setting and statistics live only in your browser's localStorage. Nothing is sent to a server; cards are shuffled with the browser's cryptography interface.

More card games: Klondike Solitaire and Mahjong Solitaire.

Frequently asked questions

Sources and legal basis

• Wikipedia: Spider (solitaire) – Aufbau, Regeln, Wertung, Gewinnchance
• MDN: Crypto.getRandomValues()

As of: 28 September 2026 · Editorial policy