Spider Solitaire Online

Play Spider Solitaire with 104 cards, ten columns, and your choice of one, two, or four suits. Build eight complete runs from King to Ace to clear the board. The game above is ready to play, with Undo and Hint available and no download or account required.

How this Spider game works

The first four columns start with six cards each; the other six start with five. Only the bottom card in each column is face up. The remaining 50 cards form the stock at the upper left.

• Build down one rank: place a 7 on an 8, regardless of suit or color.
• Move a run together: every card from the one you pick up to the bottom of its column must be face up, in descending order, and the same suit.
• Use an empty column: move any exposed card or valid run into it; you do not need a King.
• Uncover cards: the next face-down card turns over when you remove the cards below it.
• Complete a suit: a face-up King-to-Ace run of one suit moves automatically to a completed-run pile. Finish eight runs to win.

Choose 1, 2, or 4 suits

Use the suit selector above the board. Changing the setting starts a new deal, so choose your mode before investing in a position. All three modes use 104 cards and the same movement rules.

Three moves worth understanding

These simplified example positions illustrate the rules; they are not the cards in your current deal.

1. You can build a mixed run without being able to move it

This is why joining matching suits helps. In four-suit mode, an 8 of Spades over a 7 of Clubs still has a suit break even though both cards are black.

2. An empty column helps you rearrange, but blocks the stock

Suppose one column is empty and another contains a face-down card beneath a lone, face-up 5. Move the 5 into the empty column: the hidden card turns over, and every column now has a card. You can then deal from the stock if cards remain. If moving the 5 empties its original column, you have only moved the gap and the stock is still blocked.

Here, an attempted stock deal with an empty column highlights the stock and the empty space. Fill every gap first. A stock deal adds one face-up card to each of the ten columns, including runs you were organizing, so check your available moves before dealing.

3. A completed run must stay in one suit

A King-to-Ace column with twelve Spades and one Heart does not clear. Move the cards below the Heart out of the way, relocate that Heart, and rebuild the missing part in Spades. The game removes the run automatically only when all thirteen cards are face up and in the same suit.

Using the controls

• Drag a card or run to the column you want. Pick up the highest card of the same-suit run you intend to move.
• Click or tap the stock to deal a row of ten, once all columns are occupied.
• Hint highlights a movable card or run, or the stock when a deal is available. It identifies a legal action, not a guaranteed route to a win.
• Undo lets you backtrack and compare another line of play.
• Full Screen gives the board more room. Use Exit Full Screen or Escape to leave that view.

Common questions

Why will my stack not move?

Check every card below the one you selected. The entire selected run must descend by one rank and use one suit. The destination must be empty or end in a card one rank above the run's first card.

Can I deal with an empty column?

No. This version requires all ten columns to contain a card before a stock deal, in every suit mode.

Does one suit guarantee a win?

No. One suit removes suit breaks, but the shuffle and your decisions can still leave no route to complete all eight runs.

Watch a Spider tutorial

Compare the games, then try a different challenge

Coming from Klondike Solitaire? Read the Spider and Klondike comparison for the differences in suits, empty columns, and stock rules. For a card game with all cards visible from the start, try FreeCell and its worked examples of moving longer sequences.