A guide to your next move.
Spider in a smaller layout
The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. Spiderette on ftcadvisor.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.
Seven growing columns
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.
The remaining deck
The following details apply here. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. 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.
Place an exposed card
The following details apply here. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit.
Move a sequence
A few details help explain this feature. 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. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal.
Open the hidden layout
A few details help explain this feature. 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. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card.
Prepare to use the stock
A few details help explain this feature. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. 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
Here are the details for this mode. 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.
Useful practice controls
Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable.
Local progress and results
Keep these points in mind. Reloading the page can resume that position. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. 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.