Meet Spiderette
The following details apply here. Spiderette on ntyinyi.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten.
The opening staircase
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 seventh opening column contains seven cards. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether.
Twenty-four stock cards
Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. 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. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns.
Build down by rank
The following details apply here. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher.
Move a sequence
The following details apply here. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Expose another card
No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. 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.
Keep columns occupied
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. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling.
Four complete runs
A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. 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
Keep these points in mind. 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. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation.
Local progress and results
Here are the details for this mode. Reloading the page can resume that position. 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.