Meet Spiderette
Keep these points in mind. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. Spiderette on gzjeco.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten.
The opening staircase
The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. The seventh opening column contains seven cards.
The remaining deck
Keep these points in mind. A full stock deal adds one card to each of the seven columns. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns.
Place an exposed card
The following details apply here. A destination card may belong to a different suit. 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. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.
One suit travels together
Keep these points in mind. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal.
Open the hidden layout
Keep these points in mind. 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. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination.
Keep columns occupied
Keep these points in mind. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain.
Collect all four suits
The following details apply here. 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. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds.
Learn the shorter game
Here are the details for this mode. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable.
Return to Spiderette
Keep these points in mind. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. Reloading the page can resume that position.