Meet Spiderette
The following details apply here. Spiderette on edvbuch.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.
The opening staircase
Here are the details for this mode. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. 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 opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether.
Twenty-four stock cards
Keep these points in mind. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. 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.
Place an exposed card
Keep these points in mind. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.
Move a sequence
The following details apply here. 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. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal.
Open the hidden layout
The following details apply here. Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. 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.
Keep columns occupied
A few details help explain this feature. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. 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
The following details apply here. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds.
Useful practice controls
Keep these points in mind. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. 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.
Local progress and results
A few details help explain this feature. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Reloading the page can resume that position. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results.