What is Spider Solitaire?

Spider Solitaire is a single player card game that uses 104 cards (2 decks, minus the jokers). The primary goal of Spider is to clear all cards from the table.

Cards are cleared by creating same-suit runs (King-Ace) within the tableaus. Once a run is complete, it is removed from the table.

Spider Solitaire requires more patience and strategy than traditional Solitaire.

How To Play

When the game starts, 54 cards are dealt to the 10 tableaus, and the top card in each tableau is turned face up. The remaining 50 cards are in the deck, and will be dealt to the tableaus throughout the game.

You can build sequences down by rank (King through Ace), regardless of suit, by dragging and dropping faceup cards among the tableaus:

You can change the difficulty by choosing the number of suits to include in the game. Four suits is the most difficult, and uses 2 full decks of cards. Two suits is still quite challenging, and one suit is by far the easiest variation. All variations still use 104 cards, and consist of 8 King-Ace runs.

Other Controls

Scoring

Scoring is similar to the original Spider Solitaire for PC. The user starts a game with 500 points:

A score of 1200 or more is considered excellent!

If you have Game Center enabled and are logged in, you can post your best score to the leaderboard, and view your friends' scores too.

Settings

The settings screen can be accessed from the main menu.

There are a number of settings that customize the look of the game, such as:

You can see the effect of the settings as you change them.

Other settings change the game play: