Spider Solitaire

Spider Solitaire: Classic Card Game

Discover the popular solitaire card game where you order all cards in descending suit sequences from King to Ace, with rules and moves to eliminate until only ordered sequences remain.

What is Spider Solitaire?

Spider Solitaire is a fun and challenging single-player card game using either one or two full decks of cards. The game dates back to the early days of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s. The objective is to order all 104 cards into sequences from King to Ace in each suit.

At the start of a game, 54 or 104 cards are dealt face-up into 10 piles of uneven size on the table. The top cards of each pile are available for play. On his turn, the player moves cards between the 10 piles, adhering to the rules of following alternate color suits in descending order. The player works to eliminate cards from the table by moving them to the bottom foundations, where 4 ordered sequences will be created (one for each suit).

A key strategic element is that a player can only move a card or sequence of cards from one pile to another if the top card matches the suit of the next card to be played in the destination pile. Additional tableaus become available during play as cards get removed, which opens up more possibilities for moves. Part of the enduring popularity of Spider Solitaire stems from the fact that games can often go one of two ways: either the cards flow well and the player makes quick progress, or the game bogs down with no good moves available, which causes the player to get stuck.

Spider Solitaire features multiple levels of difficulty, from one to four suits. Scoring incentives and statistics add to the replay value. It’s included for free in Microsoft Windows and draws in legions of ardent fans.

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