Meet Spiderette
The following details apply here. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. Spiderette on tjxt56.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.
Seven growing columns
A few details help explain this feature. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether.
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. A full stock deal adds one card to each of the seven columns. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards.
Build down by rank
Any exposed card may enter an empty column. 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.
One suit travels together
Keep these points in mind. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Open the hidden layout
The following details apply here. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card.
Keep columns occupied
The following details apply here. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column.
Four complete runs
Here are the details for this mode. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. 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
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.
Local progress and results
The following details apply here. Reloading the page can resume that position. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider.