Meet Spiderette
Keep these points in mind. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Spiderette on bgfhb.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.
Seven growing columns
A few details help explain this feature. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether. 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 remaining deck
The following details apply here. 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. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns.
Place an exposed card
The following details apply here. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit. 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. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. 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.
Expose another card
A few details help explain this feature. 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. 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
The following details apply here. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. 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. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column.
Collect all four suits
Keep these points in mind. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck.
Learn the shorter game
A few details help explain this feature. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. 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. Reloading the page can resume that position. 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. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider.