Spider Solitaire Games

How to Play Spider Solitaire and Weave a Win

Ready to get tangled in Spider Solitaire? This solo card game spins a web with two standard decks, 104 cards total, and tests your patience and skill. You deal ten tableau piles: the first four with six cards each (top one face-up), the next six with five cards each (top one face-up), totaling 54 cards, and the remaining 50 become your stock pile, dealt in batches of ten. Your aim is to build eight full sequences in the tableau, King down to Ace in the same suit, which then clear off the board.

Spider Solitaire Games Rules, Tips, and Strategies

Here’s how you play: move any face-up card or stack onto another card one rank higher, suit doesn’t matter—like a 7 on an 8—dragging all cards above it along. When a pile shows only face-down cards, flip the top one up. Run out of moves? Deal ten new cards from the stock, one per pile, but only if every pile has at least one card. Empty a pile? Drop any card or sequence there to keep weaving. It’s a deep, satisfying game that’s all about untangling the deck, perfect for a focused solo session. Can you spin all eight stacks and clear the web?