Instead, the player manipulates the position of the cards in the ten columns. Unlike in other solitaires, in Spider Solitaire the player does not directly place cards in the foundations. How to play Spider Solitaire?Īs in any other solitaire, the objective is to sort shuffled cards by number and color. Because of its higher difficulty, Spider Solitaire became so popular that in the early 2000's gained the status of the most popular solitaire game played on Windows PCs. The game first appeared in system Windows 3.x in 1991 but it gained in popularity thanks to its distribution with Windows XP. In the simplified versions, the cards have only one color (the easiest) or two colors (medium difficulty). Unlike other popular patience games, Spider Solitaire is played with two decks of cards (that is with 104 cards). Most likely, Spider Solitaire derives its name from the eight legs of a spider, which correspond to the eight foundations which must be filled with cards in order to solve the game. The origins of the game name are not certain. Currently there is no scoring like in the Windows Solitaire, if someone is interested in this then contact me at I'll see what I can do.Important shortcut keys Toggle full screen: The game counts the moves you make, and measures the time it takes to finish the game, so you can compete against your previous best games So if you're trying to win the game in as few moves as possible you should be careful about how many undos you use.

You can Undo as many times as you like.

Then the game will automatically move all the Tableau cards onto the Foundations, since at that point you are guaranteed When all cards on the Tableau are turned up, and all cards from the stock are finished You can either drag the cards onto the Foundation, or just double click it and then it will You can do this manually if you need toĬlear some space on the Tableau.

You can move a Tableau card onto the Foundations.

So now the top card is face down, then you can click the face down card and it will be flipped and shown face up. If you have moved a face up card from a Tableau pile

You can flip a face down Tableau card.

Have an empty Tableau pile then you can only place a king there. Or, if you have red 6, black 5, red 4įace up on one tableau, you can move all of them at the same time onto a Tableau with a black 7.

For example, you could move a red 6 onto a black 7. The Tableau onto another Tableau pile, if that pile's top card is one higher than the moved card and in aĭifferent color. Move one or more cards from one Tableau pile to another.This isn't allowed in all Solitaire versions, but we allow it here :) You can move the top card of a Foundation back onto the Tableau. Move a card from a Foundation back onto the Tableau.You can move the top card of the Waste onto Move a card from the Waste onto the Tableau.Go onto one of the Foundations then you can drag it there. Move a card from the Waste onto the Foundations.You can flip either 1 or 3 cards from the Flip cards from the Stock onto the Waste.To get there, you can use the moves described below. The Foundations are ordered by suitĪnd rank, each Foundation has one suit and you must put the cards onto them in the order Ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jack Queen King.

To win Solitaire, you must get all the cards onto the Foundation piles. The cards that are left after setting up the Tableau are placed in the Stock, face down. The top card on each Tableau pile is turned face up, the cards below are turned face down. The Tableau piles are numbered from 1 to 7, pile 1 has 1 card, pile 2 has 2 cards and so on. The Tableau: The seven piles that make up the main table.The Foundations: The four piles in the upper right corner.The Waste: The faceup pile next to the Stock in the upper left corner.The Stock: The pile of facedown cards in the upper left corner.There are four different types of piles in Solitaire.

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