Spider — Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — every game is free, no download, no signup.

One or two suits to learn; four suits for the real challenge.

Spider (the main game), Scorpion and Klondike.

Remove all eight complete suit runs (King down to Ace). Each finished run is banked off the board automatically; clear all eight and you have beaten the game.

Spider forbids dealing while any column sits empty. Move a card into every gap first, then the stock will release its next row of ten cards.

Yes. A block of cards only travels as one if it is already in descending order and all the same suit. Mixed-suit runs have to be relocated one card at a time.

Start with one suit to learn how runs form and clear, move to two suits to practise colour discipline, and save the four-suit game for when you want the real test.

Yes — it plays free in your browser with undo and hints, and there is no download or signup.

Scorpion Solitaire uses a single deck, builds runs strictly by suit, and lets you move any face-up card together with everything piled on top of it — there is no free-moving of loose ordered sequences the way Spider allows.

Forty-nine cards fill seven columns of seven, and the final three sit in a reserve you deal out later when you are stuck.

When no tableau moves remain, release the three reserve cards onto the first three columns. Save this move, since it is your only extra deal and can bury useful cards.

Kings sit at the top of a suit and accept nothing beneath them, so an exposed King usually needs an empty column. Free one up to give it a home.

Yes — it runs free in your browser with no download and no signup.

Move all 52 cards up to the four foundation piles, building each suit in order from Ace to King. Empty the tableau and stock into the foundations and the game is won.

Klondike Solitaire uses one deck and builds up onto foundations by suit; Spider uses two decks and instead forms King-to-Ace runs in the tableau that are removed automatically.

Yes — an already-ordered run in alternating colours can be moved as a group onto a card one higher of the opposite colour.

Only a King, or an ordered run headed by a King, may be placed into an empty tableau column.

Yes — it plays free in your browser with undo, hints and full-screen, and no download or signup.