Spider in a smaller layout
The following details apply here. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. Spiderette on 1515ip.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game.
The opening staircase
A few details help explain this feature. 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
Here are the details for this mode. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns. 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.
Build down by rank
The following details apply here. Any exposed card may enter an empty column. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher.
One suit travels together
The following details apply here. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group.
Open the hidden layout
Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed.
Keep columns occupied
Here are the details for this mode. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling.
Collect all four suits
The following details apply here. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds.
Learn the shorter game
Keep these points in mind. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable.
Return to Spiderette
A few details help explain this feature. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. Reloading the page can resume that position.