About Spider Solitaire Here
Two decks, ten columns, eight runs to find
Spider is the big one: a hundred and four cards, fifty-four dealt into ten columns with forty-four of them face down, and a win condition that asks for eight complete king-to-ace runs in matching suit. Ten cards are visible when play begins and the other ninety-four are not, which is the whole difficulty in one sentence. The stock refuses to deal while any column stands empty, so the game keeps punishing you for the resource it keeps tempting you to spend.
A ladder, not a difficulty slider
One suit, two suits, four suits — Spider players do not really think of these as easy, medium and hard, they think of them as three different games, and this site treats them that way. Each rung has its own page rather than being buried behind a dropdown:
- Spider Solitaire 1 Suit — spades only, almost always winnable, and the right place to learn what an empty column is worth.
- Spider Solitaire 2 Suit — where mixed stacks start costing you, and where most regulars settle.
- Spider Solitaire 4 Suit — the full game, which humbles veterans and is meant to.
The odds page puts numbers on how far apart those three really are, the rules cover the deal and the stock restriction, the strategy guide argues for hoarding empty columns, and variants covers Spiderette and the rest.
Undo, hints, and a stats table that remembers
Long games deserve tooling. Undo goes back as far as you need, hints will surface a legal move when a board looks dead, and win counts are stored per suit mode in your own browser so climbing from one suit to four is something you can actually see happening. None of it is gated, timed, or attached to an account.
Who is responsible for this site
spidersolitaire.to is run by Card Games Studio, an independent operation of a handful of people who publish a couple of dozen free card and tile games. When you notice the sites at the bottom of this page linking back here, the boring explanation is that we own all of them, and the studio page enumerates them rather than asking you to trust us. Hints are the feature that generates the most argument, particularly when one suggests a move a good player would reject. Those complaints are useful; the address for them is hello@coffeebreak.gg.