Spider in a smaller layout
Spiderette on lzshxh.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten.
Seven growing columns
Keep these points in mind. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more.
Twenty-four stock cards
The following details apply here. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. A full stock deal adds one card to each of the seven columns.
Build down by rank
Here are the details for this mode. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. 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.
One suit travels together
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. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move.
Expose another card
A few details help explain this feature. Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed. No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card.
Keep columns occupied
An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain. Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal.
Collect all four suits
A few details help explain this feature. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. 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.
Learn the shorter game
Here are the details for this mode. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable. 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.
Return to Spiderette
Keep these points in mind. 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. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider.