Meet Spiderette
A few details help explain this feature. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. Spiderette on zichen-sz.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes.
Seven growing columns
Keep these points in mind. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether.
Twenty-four stock cards
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
A few details help explain this feature. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit.
Move a sequence
The following details apply here. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Expose another card
Keep these points in mind. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card. Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed.
Prepare to use the stock
A few details help explain this feature. 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
Keep these points in mind. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. 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.
Useful practice controls
Here are the details for this mode. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available.
Local progress and results
The following details apply here. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. Reloading the page can resume that position. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results.