Spider in a smaller layout
A few details help explain this feature. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Spiderette on helibxg.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
Here are the details for this mode. 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 opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether.
The remaining deck
A few details help explain this feature. 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. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock.
Build down by rank
Keep these points in mind. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. 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.
Move a sequence
Keep these points in mind. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group.
Open the hidden layout
The following details apply here. 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
This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain.
Four complete runs
A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck.
Learn the shorter game
The following details apply here. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again.
Local progress and results
The following details apply here. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Reloading the page can resume that position.