Meet Spiderette
Keep these points in mind. Spiderette on cstocoin.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.
The opening staircase
Keep these points in mind. 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.
Twenty-four stock cards
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. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns.
Build down by rank
Keep these points in mind. 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. A destination card may belong to a different suit. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.
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. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal.
Open the hidden layout
The following details apply here. 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
Here are the details for this mode. 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 few details help explain this feature. 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. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace.
Useful practice controls
Here are the details for this mode. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. 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
Keep these points in mind. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Reloading the page can resume that position.