Meet Spiderette
The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. 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 opening staircase
Here are the details for this mode. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up.
The remaining deck
Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. 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. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns.
Build down by rank
Keep these points in mind. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit.
Move a sequence
The following details apply here. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Expose another card
Here are the details for this mode. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. 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. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card.
Keep columns occupied
A few details help explain this feature. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal.
Four complete runs
The following details apply here. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. 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.
Learn the shorter game
The following details apply here. 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. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again.
Local progress and results
Here are the details for this mode. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. Reloading the page can resume that position. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results.